Day 5: The true meaning of Hectic in South Korea (lol)

Korea has been a beautiful dream! Just by reviewing our photos from our winter visit last year, I can feel that cold winter breeze and the unexpected tourist frenzy moments. I know this post has been long overdue (which I am sincerely apologetic about!). I'm sorry, blogging has been out of my mind for ages...but the good thing is I'm back at it soooo, let's celebrate! lol. 

It's our 5th day in South Korea and we still wanted to explore more places. With this in mind, we visited four completely different locations which exhausted every ounce of energy we had for that day. We squeezed in one day to visit Gyeongbokgung Palace, Bukchon Hanok Village, Pocheon Art Valley (which is about 1 hr away from the City) and more shopping at Myeongdong. 

The visit to Gyeongbokgung Palace was my second time but I haven't tried on these palace guard costumes so Robert, Ryan and I went to try it! The best thing about it? It's FREE! My bestfriend Shai was back at the Hostel still preparing for our day. She stayed back since she's been at the palace for three times already! 

The Morning of our fifth day was spent at Gyeongbokgung Palace and Bukchon Hanok Village. These places are one train station apart, and it is always a must to visit these two spots together when in Seoul! 

A selca for our palace guard costumes! Would we pass as palace guards in Joseon Era? LOL

Met a Filipino couple and had our photo taken with them because why not?!

Selfie with Ry while waiting for Memshie Rob to get dressed ;) 

The men went to have a look around the palace while I went to meet up with my bestfriend (in a secret cafe) hahaha. We didn't tell the boys about us eating here but they end up finding us! That moment crack me up. We were literally trying to hide from them so my bestfriend and I can catch up on everything we've missed out on while away from each other for months! Too bad, the boys are too keen on finding us because they happen to be hungry, too HAHAHHA! Food gets us all together <3 

Seoulid Adventures: Bukchon Hanok Village

I was not on hiatus. I just got a little busy with "review" for an upcoming board exam (which slowly kills me with anxiety). Since I have a few minutes to do stuff online, I decided why not update my little blog? The page views for the last month was good enough so I think people still check this blogspot. hihi.

Our second destination after the Gyeongbokgung Palace was the Bukchon Hanok Village. It was almost 4pm in the afternoon when we got there and I would probably recommend to visit that place at an earlier hour. Since we walked for a few hours at the Palace, our feet were throbbing in pain and walking up the village was a challenge so we only took very few photos (too lazy to take pictures, too busy looking for spots where we could sit and rest).

It was a great thing that Korea have established a lot of Tourist Information booths all over seoul, it was not difficult to navigate the places we wanted to visit because they provide maps and clear directions going to those places. They even have tourist info people who could give you help with directions or finding places you wanted to see. They love tourists!

Here are some of the pictures we took at Bukchon Hanok Village: