Category: Korea
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Strolling Bukchon Hanok Village, Insadong and Ikseon-dong
We still had half a day to enjoy Seoul before leaving with 17.15 flight back to Jakarta. We checked out Hotel after breakfast and hopped on to Taxi to take us to Bukchon Hanok Village. We had 1 hour photo appointment with Frame a trip. I decided to splurge and hire Frame a trip instead […]
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Day trip to Petite France, Nami Island and Gangchon rail bike
I didn’t normally take a packaged tour but as Hubbie only had 1 free day, to maximized our time it was better to book a packaged tour day trip which took care of all the transportation. If we went by ourselves we wouldn’t be able to visit all the 3 places in one day. I […]
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Visiting Starfield Coex Mall
Starfield coex Mall claimed to be Asia largest underground mall is located in Gangnam District and share the same location with Coex building and connected with Intercontinental Coex and Parnas. They have Megabox cinema, aquarium and and also connected with Hyundai Dept store. I also found many skincare shops which I found in Myeongdong such […]
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What to expect from DMZ North Korea Tour and Climbing up Namsan Tower
I booked the half day DMZ tour from Trazy.com a local Korea travel agent. Initially I wanted to book from Getaguide but I found Trazy price is cheaper. Trazy and Klook pricing is around the same but I picked Trazy because it is a local Korea travel agent. DMZ tour picked us up at 7.10am. […]
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How to visit Gyeongbokgung Palace, Samcheongdong and do shopping spree in Myeongdong
We landed in Seoul Thursday morning and our flight was delayed for 1 hour. It was raining with thunderstorm as we made our way to our Hotel (Intercontinental Coex) located in Gangnam. The traffic was bad and it took us 2+ hours from Incheon airport. Our Hotel is not located in the center and pretty […]
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Seoul Summer Trip Itinerary
When Hubbie told me he would have to fly to Seoul for business meetings I immediately said I wanted to tag along as I have never been to Korea, never mind it was still summer (well hopefully very late summer). I could not get a cheap ticket because everything was impromptu but I got a […]