Flying trough Seoul star #2

Anyong haseyo

Day two, Hamilton Hotel, Seoul 8.00 AM (Seoul, GMT+9)

Woke up quite late, me and Marvin directly headed to Hotel's cafetaria having breakfast there. Then not too long after that Marie just came in and we started the trip again. So, where were us going? First, we visited Gyaeongbokgung, a palace where king (or emperor, whatever) lived. Outside the palace, I saw two statue. The gold one and silver one. The silver one is a statue of local famous general, and the gold one represent Korean Emperor who made Hangul. 

Such a great morning, really! 

          Before we went to main palace, we walked around National Folklore Museum first, where a lot of Korean Diorama, Governor uniforms, Emperor Uniforms, and etcetera. But we did not take much time there taking pictures, so we just straight walked down to the main palace, cool one though knowing the Emperor lived in such a comfy place. FYI : visually, the palace looks great combined with buildings circled and paramount around the city, such a view. 

          We took pictures. Ah, you should see me acrobating in the middle of the crowd there. But unfortunately, I can not post any pictures here, maybe in next post. But that is not a biggie anyway, eh?

The palace was great, next destination : Samsung d'light. Samsung delight is a hot spot where Samsung's latest technology introduced. Sophisticated! There we were introduced by a guide with The technology, I can highlight : The light drum, Wireless charger, Smart TV, Smart refrigerator, and Augmented reality screen. After having fun we took some pictures, again. Then we went back to the van and I was quite surprised looking some locals do protest demonstration to Samsung for letting their workers work way too hard causing some death victims (Marie told me). Speechless, it's quite an irony.

But keep it fun!

After that we had lunch with a table full of food, that one is one of Korean tradition. Something I just knew is every time we start eating there is always a plate of kimchi served. Go wikikorea that one! There we ate much. No, it's me especially. haha. After that  we went to N Seoul Tower. 

N Seoul Tower is the highest tower in South Korea. We should walk to the top and kind of tiring my leg, really. But before I tell further about it, we went to a place nearby. It was Teddy Bear Museum. There I saw historical dioramas with teddy bear figuring. One cool thing is the dioramas could censor presence of the visitor, so I can play it all along by running to each set. It was fun, really. I took picture with giant teddy bear wearing PSY costume and do Gangnam Style pose. That was literally fun!     

Got no bye-bye and bear hug, we took lift that picked us up to the top of the N Seoul Tower, Looking around from the top what Seoul city looked like. Dang, that was beautiful, I paid about 500 won to see view from the binocular. One word : Worth. There I met with some souvenir stores selling post cards, cosmetics, and pictures. After buying some souvenirs for relatives, we went down and watched a traditional performance, about 15 minutes we left because we should go to another destination. We didn’t walk like the way we went up to the top, we used cable car. I sighed with glad feeling. Haha.

 Back to the van, we headed to cosmetic shop, I did not mean to pay any attention there, but after seeing the impact of the powder (I forgot the brand name) to my skin. I got white skin, as white as Korean people. God! For a minute there, there was something in my mind that made me think I should buy one. But my sanity remained. My bucks was running out, man!

Escaped from the tempting cosmetic shop, we went to market at Myong dong. That was the last destination for the day, so we should waste our money there buying souvenirs, clothings and cosmetics. After killing time with shopping thingy. We ate something(again, I forget the name) like chopped chiken, mixed with vegetable, and olive oil in one big pan. Yum! I ate again, it was so tasty and spicy, I can tell you. I was full! After that the leftover in the pan was mixed with rice,and  with the restaurant’s magic, voala a pan full of spicy and delightful fried rice came in handy challenge you in second round!

Telling you the taste of the food makes me hungry, Okay back on. After that we go to a building where Nanta Show held. Nanta Show mainly is a percussion performance combined with funny story in it. It tells about restaurant cookers who face a new rookie cooker, there come some conflicts, and in the end they work together. Good one! We enjoyed the show so much, it took about 2 hours long, then after that, about 10 p.m we went back to Hamilton Hotel.

The story of the second day did not end here yet, I personally will tell you a few of night walking experience around Hamilton hotel. After took a bath, we walked out the hotel. The Night-life there was so alive. There were pubs, bars, prostitutes, clubs, even transgender club. We just walked on, some foreigner tourists too. The Bronx people there reminded me of GTA : San Andreas plot. Holding beers around and talked loud. Reporting what I caught, some prostitutes were young beautiful, some were mature, some were sleepy. Lol. But the atmosphere there ensured me night-life in there is one-of –a-kind experience I will never forget.

Took a walk around Hamilton hotel made us sleepy, after that we hit the bed and had a good night.