KOREA DAY 1 IN SEOUL: TONGIN MARKET, GINSENG CHICKEN & N SEOUL TOWER

Annyeonghaseyo!

Warm welcome to my very first post on my Korea trip!

I will be sharing my first day in Korea. 

Where I live, do, go and eat? Wanna know?

Keep on reading!

DAY 1 - SATURDAY - 19.11.2016

9:30AM - On the way to the airport

Collected pocket wifi, check in luggage & have a meal at MCD

1:00AM - Departure

After a long journey in the flight...

8:20AM - Safely landed at Incheon Airport, South Korea

At around 9:00AM ++ - Done check out

Bought AREX ticket direct to Seoul Station

10:00AM - Reached Seoul Station & quickly went to buy KTX ticket to Busan

Walked to rented hostel

Around 11:00AM - Check in & chill

 12:00AM - Took subway from Seoul Stn to Gyeongbokgung Stn

Lunch at Tosokchon Ginseng Chicken

Walked all the way and saw Tongin Market

Walked along in Tongin Market

At around 4:30PM - Took subway to Dongguk University Stn

Walked to bus stop & took bus to N Seoul Tower

BBQ for dinner

Back to hostel!

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BREAK IT DOWN

After you done your check out at the airport, follow the sign where it wrote 
"AIRPORT RAILROAD" if you wanna take the AREX to Seoul Stn.
It would be going down a floor to level 1.
There will be counter for buying the AREX ticket.
#I have a group of 4 & we got each person for 6,000 won
You will get receipt and also ticket!

#Make sure to keep your receipt for seat number & time reference

#Please be there early as the train might reached earlier than the time given

#The duration from Incheon Airport to Seoul Stn is around 43 minutes, you can have a nap or rest and just enjoy the view outside! :)

REACHED SEOUL STATION

We going to Busan on tomorrow and we haven't buy our tickets *risky*

So, after we reached Seoul Stn, we quickly went up to where you can take KTX & other kind of subway/train.

We bought our tickets for 59,800 won per way per person.

#Worry about should I book online or how can I get my tickets?

For me, I don't really understand how the online booking works. So, we decided to just buy at the counter at Seoul Station. 

Actually, I don't think we need to worry about it because every hour will have a train to Busan and you can freely select your time go and back as well. 

And if you know when you are going back to Seoul, buy return tickets as well.

It's more convenient & easy. #

**this tips credit to Kak Wati**

After getting our Busan tickets, finding the way to our hostel is making us headache. 

I booked this stay through Airbnb - I will write a post on my stay in Korea! 

My hostel is just walking distance from Seoul Stn.

Going round for like 20-30 minutes (or probably more than that), finally we found the right way!

I can say this, the house host is not that friendly & helpful. 

Okay, it's alright, I will write about this in my hostel post (got a lot of things to share) 

We taking our luggage up to second floor all by ourselves. 

Check in & rest for awhile.

GOING OUT TO GYEONGBOKGUNG STATION

Our actual planning was going to Gwanghwamun Square, Gyeongbokgung & Bukchon Hanok Village but too bad on Saturday they have rally exactly around those area. 

We did went there and polices everywhere O.O

We decided to dropped by the very famous ginseng chicken in town, Tosokchon Samgyetang Chicken!

 GOING TO TONGIN MARKET

After we filled our tummy, we took a walked along the road and Tongin Market are at the right side!

We walked till the end of Tongin Market and stop at a stall where ahjumma & halmeoni (grandma) selling tteokbokki & fish cakes! *yums!*

Fish cakes with hot broth!

Sweet + Spicy Tteokbokki as snacks!

GOING TO N SEOUL TOWER

Since we can't go to Gyeongbokgung & Gwanghwamun, we decided to go Seoul Tower! 

So, we walked back to Gyeongbokgung Stn and took subway all the way to Dongguk University Stn #line 3 exit 6 to N Seoul Tower.

Walked a small distance to a bus stop & took bus number 02.

The bus fetch us all the way up but you need to walked a little more and take the lift to where all the love locks was.

#you can also to Myeongdong Stn #line 4 exit 3

*I think we took the wrong subway to here because we actually decided to take cable car instead of bus T.T

Seoul Tower! 

All the love locks! 

DINNER

I actually forgot where we dine in for our dinner but it's BBQ! *slurp*

They are so yummy, yup BBQ are always delicious!

BBQ restaurant! 

BACK TO OUR HOSTEL

Bath & sleep!

Finally! My Day 1 post in Seoul is complete! 

If you have any questions, just tweet me or DM me on instagram! 

I will try my best to answer your questions!! 

Please stay tune to Day 2 coming soon! 

[ # are side tips! ]

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#babyyypandatravel TO KOREA!

Finally I got to write on my trip to Korea! 

I just landed yesterday and feeling a bit weird haha

Waking up in Malaysia & had my mum's cooking definitely feels home!

Having the sky still bright even it's already 7:00pm. 

This is just a rough intro on how I'm going to split my post.

Basically I went to Korea for 8 days 7 nights for Seoul and Busan.

I will blog day by day it will be easier I think and I will share some useful tips for my very first experience.

I will share my Airbnb stay and my shopping haul. 

Below for the total expanses I spent during my trip. 

My rate was RM3.80 = 1,000 won

Accommodation: RM 535.40 - paid in RM

Flight tickets (round trip): RM732 + RM159 (luggage) = RM891

Transportation: 50,000 won (RM190)

Total money change for shopping: RM3990 = 1,050,000 won

Grand total: RM5500 ±

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The season I went was actually autumn but it was freezing cold when I reached there. Unexpected. 

The temperature was around 10 - 16℃ in day time while 0 - -5℃ in the night time.

The temperature in the first 3 days was windy cold and hot (keep changing) 

The remaining days was freezing windy cold (the strong wind blew non-stop) but the hot sun helps in the morning + afternoon! 

And yesterday when I was on my way to Incheon Airport, it snow!! 

"TIPS: keep on checking your weather apps to make sure the clothes are suitable for the weather"

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That's all for my short post. My brain is not working good now hahah

If I left out something, I will update it on my TIPS post soon.

P/S: I might be updating very slow but I will blog them out to help more people who is going to backpack travel to Korea! Please share them among your family & friends! 

Please stay tune to it! 

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Panda, xoxo ♡

ROYAL PIRATES IN MALAYSIA!

Hello November!!! 

November have been one of my favourite after my own birthday month because it's my mum's birthday month and also my biases' birthday month!

What a good opening for my November! Royal Pirates is in Malaysia and will be one of the guest judges for Astro Star Quest 2016. They even held the one and <Meet The Fans Session> on 06.11.2016 at Berjaya Times Square!

UMM announced they will be coming to Malaysia for promoting their new album <3.3>

I asked my friend, Areesya, if she want to follow me along to the event and she said yes! 

We were so excited for it since this will be the second event we will be going together! *first event we went together was meeting Eric Nam oppa 2 years ago!! Read here --> ERIC NAM IN MY *

Finally, it's D-Day!! 

We start our journey at around 10am taking public transport and reaching their at around 11am. We only saw few people there and chairs *yup chairs hahaha*

We also follow along putting our bottle *to get a place you need to do this* and get our food! 

After getting our food, went back to the venue and start waiting! Super K Family members appearing one by one of course! ahahahh They won't miss this! 

I was sitting down, too lazy to stand up hahah

MC asked them a lot of questions but I forgot almost everything what she asked hahahah

I only focusing on my recording XD 

So just let's move on to the photos I took on that day! 

Make sure to see till the end!! :D 

see how tall is him!!! 

sorry for cropping Moon >.< was too focus at James T.T 

they were focusing to someone who taking photo of them?

they got their front, we got their back! 

are you looking at my camera Moon???

he is finding his soulmate in Malaysia I guess! 

eyes smile omg melted everyone~~~

Super K Family ♡

Areesya and me ♡

thanks to fansite admins~ ♡

thanks to fansite admins~ ♡

thanks to kak dona for this~ ♡

This autograph session was very long and we got a lot of time looking at time aahahahha 

We all have fun!! Thank you Royal Pirates for coming to Malaysia and they are coming again this December for countdown event! If you missed this time, don't worry they will come again soon!! 

It's not the end yet, let me share my bias photo with you all!!! 

James with his cute eyes smile~~ ♡

That's all for my post today! I have a lot of nice photos because I finally bought myself a camera and got to try it! Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy my post! See you in the next post!! Bbyong~! ♡

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