Friday, May 24, 2013

Planning my own trip!

So I was talking about making the decision to travel to South Korea out of a sudden and I have to plan everything within a week! However, planning got easier when there is someone there to bring u around. I am not worry about my Busan trip as I'm lucky enough to have Matt 동생 who is gonna be my tour guide for the next few days! Therefore, I would need to look for places to stay in Busan and Matt 동생 suggest that if i don't mind, i should try guest house in Korea which is quite confortable, convenient and affordable. So i started to look for guest house in Busan through Booking.com and Agoda.com. I almost fainted when i found out that the price to stay in a guest house right in the middle of city center cost ONLY ABOUT RM50~RM100/night. YES I'M SERIOUS AND CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT??!! and no! the guest house is not dirty nor scary.. It is clean, comfy (read it from most of the review), good facilities (free wifi, heater, air-conditional, laundry, ironing, hair dryer and some even include simple breakfast) and most importantly it is very convenient to walk around and it is also very cheap! The only cons is that you have to share rooms with strangers. As for me, i actually don't mind sleeping with stranger, as long as they don't snore in the middle of the night.

Let me show u few examples that i found in Busan that i would consider to stay.

(click on the name for more details)



these are the few that i really like it and there is more!!

ok this last guest house is the one that i'm looking forward to stay and it is a female guest house with sea view!!! best is it is so new and clean and it looks super comfy like a hotel!! too bad i'm not staying here as the location is a little far away from the city center, u will need to take taxi and travel. But i guess if next trip i'm visiting busan with my babes i would seriously consider this guesthouse. 

I also did a little research on places to go and when you google 'must see attraction in Busan' I believe there is a whole long link that you could refer to. It is more or less the same places people would suggest you to visit:

 1. Beomeosa Temple

2. Jagalchi Fish Market

3. Gwangalli Beach



4. Taejongdae Resort Park



5. Haeundae Beach


6. Yonggungsa Temple (ok i'm lazy to collage this photo cause all temple looks the same to me)

7.  Changseondong Meokja Golmok


8. Busan Aquarium


9. Shinsegae Centum City


*All pictures are download from google image*

I will be visiting some of these places but depends on the time. Places like Temples and Aquariums i might just skip it cause WHAT YOU GONNA FREAKING DO IN A TEMPLE? is just a building that is gonna appear as one of your photo background scenery thats all.... ( i say only la har, if time allow, i will still visit temple as my picture background scenery wtf) As for Aquarium, I heard that this aquarium is quite famous and nice but NO WAY I'M NOT GONNA PAY MONEY TO SEE FISHES AND SEA ANIMAL THAT LOOKS THE SAME AS OTHER COUNTRY FISHES AND SEA ANIMAL OKAY!! believe or not, I have been to most of the zoo and aquarium in different countries that i have visited and I'm super sick with visiting zoo and aquarium again and again. If you ever suggest me to visit any country's zoo or aquarium again i will freaking ask u to f* off and sorry for being so rude, i just get super annoyed with looking at animals already. 

The few places is a MUST for me to visit in Busan would be Haeundae Beach and Gwangalli Beach
Changseondong Meokja Golmok and also Shinsegae Centum City!!. Who doens't love beach? Since i have a professional photographer with me, i am gonna take lots and lots of photo at the beach!! yay! As for Changseondong Meokja Golmokm, I love love love street food cause there is so many choice for me to choose and i get to try authentic Korean food with small potion (anyways i can imagine i'm gonna become fat after this trip fml). As for Shinsegar Centum City, if i'm not mistaken, Running Man film it in the mall before. I'm definitely gonna go there to take some photos and of course do my shopping there!!!

I'm gonna share my Seoul trip plan for my next post!!

Okay i think i shall end it here for now, i have to continue to pack my stuff and I'm flying off in few hours time!!










Dreams come true ~ Omfg i can't believe this is happening!

Ok, I know my title is odd but this is the reason that encourage me to blog again and I have to blogged it out now cause -------------------------------------- I AM GOING TO KOREA!!!!

My close friends alway knew that the country i'm looking forward to travel is Korea, Thanks to all those Korean drama, reality show and songs, I'm so into the culture that I even went for korean language classes and I'm able to read Hangul now (not something very proud cause able to read doesn't mean you are able to understand wtf). I even tried to apply teaching job in Korea since last year but apparently it is not so easy to get a teaching job in Korea so fml I'm still in Malaysia.

My life have been quite shitty recently. And I was told to go for a trip to change for a better luck (what a good excuse to travel wtf), so there goes our babes trip to Phuket in June with wifey and Jervenne, but time is seriously killing that i have to wait for a month to travel and I'm gonna mould already!

So how does this Korea trip suddenly pop up? It started off with few days ago, wifey posted a photo about she is flying off to Melbourne and I was being all emo nemo that i couldn't travel immediately, and this is what happen: 


As you can see this guy who name Matthias is asking me if i would want to join him to travel in Korea! To be honest, I have never met him before, all i knew about him is that he was one of the photographer that had photo shoot session with Rae like years ago. I only Started to talk to him when i realize he went to Korea for studies last year and I asked him if he have any ideas of getting a job in Korea. And then, once a while, while he going to travel to korea again or he is buying any flight ticket to korea, he will ask me if i wanna come along, and obviously my dream never come true. 

So this time, when Matt 동생 invited me to join his trip, without any hesitation (Cause i can no longer stand my stupid miserable life anymore), immediately i check for all the price and money that i would need to spend for the trip, since I have a little saving so i thought why not just go ahead for this adventure? So here is my itinerary!




My plan to travel in South Korea was to spend time like a korean. Wifey actually told me that travel with tour worth the price too as with the money u are paying, you will be sleeping in a five star hotel, eating nice food and best things is that you don't need to travel with the subway or any other public transport (which might cost a bomb too?) as the tour bus will drop u right in front the tourist spot and pick u after that. She got her point actually... but i really wanted to spend time to blend in like a korean (*roll eyes*). So this trip I'm gonna spend ten days time in Busan and Seoul (two of the largest city in South Korea)

Matt 동생 is quite familiar with Busan, Also, VS (college friend) who is currently staying in Busan too. I'm gonna spend 4 days over there meeting up VS and also visit some famous attraction in Busan. What makes me really excited is that I can get to feel the culture by taking the subway, walking on the street just like the local (which is something i always wanted to do and it is something you don't get to experience if you are following the tour!!). After that, I will be spending another 5 days in Seoul.

In my next post, I will be sharing about some travel information. I actually found a lot info that i really really wanna share it out! so if you plan to travel in South Korea soon, please stay tune for my next post!

I seriously can't wait to go there, two days to go! yay!