buzzkorea - My long overdue journey to the island of Seoul

30/05/10 (Sunday)

Wow! It's been a year since my last trip to Korea. Although it is my 2nd time to Korea, still, i am looking forward to this trip! This time, I went with my sis, Chin yee, Subing and 2 of my sis friends. Hehe! A weird combination right? As i am able to speak basic Korean and my sis friends wanted to go Seoul free and easy, tt's why they joined us in this trip!

From left to right: Chin yee (CY), Subing(SB), Me, Sis, Sarah and Szeling

Our flight is scheduled at 11am plus and we are taking Cathy Pacific to Seoul. So , we have to stopover at Hong Kong then transit to another flight to Seoul. After checking in, we are off to board the plane at Terminal 1 at Changi Airport!



That is the plane that we will be taking!! (*Pray hard that it will be a smooth journey*) Hehe!!

On the plane~~~This is the meal that we had on board. If i am correct, this is the fish. There is another choice, which is chicken. Although it is not very nice, it still satisfy my hungry stomach! :)

After around 4 hours of flying, we reached Hong Kong! Dark skies are looming over HK and as a result due to the bad weather, our flight from HK to Seoul was delayed for 1 hour. So we took photos at the HK international Airport while waiting for our flight~~


The Airport at HK was really big..but a pity, Krispy Kreme has closed down at the airport already. I had originally planned to buy some back to Singapore for my family...

*Look at the floor, it was all wet after the big rain

After an hour of waiting, we finally board the plane to Seoul! The aircraft we took this time was better than the one we took from Spore to HK! After a few hours, we finally reached Seoul. But it was about 1opm++ Seoul time. As i had won a free cab ride from visitkorea website, i am worried that ther person might not be waiting for us at the arrival gate as we are very late. Incheon International Airport is really big and we have to take an internal train to get to the arrival gate. So we rushed our way out and we saw something interesting!


The spectacles are catered for different age group. This is very user friendly and this act is very considerate for the aged travellers.

Luckily, the person from the Korea Tourism Organisation is still there waiting for us. Really thankful for the lady and we feel so apologetic for making her wait so long for us. Off we go to our hostel! We had booked Banana Backpackers throughout our stay in Seoul. We reached there an hour later!The weather was really very cooling! I realy loved this weather...Unlike Singapore, we only have 2 seasons...rainy and sunny...

*The exterior of Banana Backpackers!

*This is the living room. There is a sofa, TV set, check-in counter and an area where we can get free brochures on Seoul

*This is our room!

After checking in and putting down our luggage, we went to the nearby convenience store, GS25 to get some drinks!

*The vast variety of cup noodles in GS25! Looing at it makes me drool~

*See, there are so many different brand of milk!!

*This is what we got in the end! The famous banana milk which is endorsed by Lee Min Ho!

After bathing and settling down, it is around 1pm.. So we went to bed as we have to wake up early for our trip to Busan!

~End of Day 1