South Korea 2014: Day 2 - Seoul Rose Garden and Aiins World

Annyeong Haseyo!

For our day 2 we have special buddy, his name is Stephen he works in Suwon staying for more than a year in South Korea, he was my dongsaeng's schoolmate in college.

We will visit Seoul Rose Garden and Aiins World. Our meeting place is "Seoul Grand Park", it is one of the major theme park in South Korea that has a zoo, amusement park, botanical garden and camping ground.  

Seoul Grand Park

How to get here:

Take Seoul Subway Line 4 and get off to Seoul Grand Park Station, exit #2

SEOUL ROSE GARDEN

This garden is part of Seoul Grand Park, we ride the elephant train for 1000 KRW(t'was a short ride though). The first stop is Seoul Zoo, just opposite is The Rose Garden. 

Admission fee: 2000 KRW

I definitely love this place, I can smell the very good fragrance of these lovely roses! I've read that this month of June is the best time to visit because roses are in full bloom during this season. 

Painters can be seen here, I guess there is an event about painting these roses. There are lots of artistic Korean and they are really good.

hmmmmm ^_^  

This rose garden is very picturesque! I really wanted to pick one rose (just one), but if I get caught will they deport me back to PH ? ^_^   

YELLOW!

Aside from roses there is also Children's Zoo inside, only few animals can be seen here like monkeys, lambs, goats, llamas, black pig. Kids will surely enjoy petting cute animals.

Back to Seoul Grand Park we ride the cable car for 5000 won, you have the option to walk or ride the cable car.

Rose Garden view from the cable car

scary ride in the cable car ^_^

After our lunch at the nearest KFC located at Seoul Grand Park exit 2, we headed to our next destination "Aiins World".

AIINS WORLD
Address
1, Gilju-ro, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
경기도 부천시 원미구 길주로 1 (상동)

How to get here:
Samsan Stadium Station (Seoul Subway Line 7), Exit 5.
Go 150m and take Bus 558.
Get off at Aiins World (아인스월드) bus stop.

Admission Fee: 10,000 KRW

Wanna go a trip around the world?  See the famous Eiffel Tower, The Great Wall of China, Empire State Building, Big Ben, Colosseum, Angkor Wat, Petronas Tower, and many more. Well you're in the right place "AIINS WORLD" where you can see miniature famous building around the world in just few hours!

Let's start with London, these miniature models was so detailed that make it look so real.

Westminster Abbey

Finally!!!!!!! PARIS ^_^

Versailles

Notre Dame

Colosseum

Milan Cathedral

The Sagrada Familia

Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Acropolis of Athens

Done with Europe Tour, let's go to Russia!

Moscow

EGYPT!

Quick tour to Japan.... yes Mount Fuji! 

Teotihuacan (City in Mexico)

The Colossus of Rhodes

Chichen Itza

Atlantis

Sydney Harbour with Korean Apartment in the background ^_^

United States of America

Lincoln Memorial

Mount Rushmore

Statue of Liberty

King Kong

New York Skyline

Back in ASIA

Great Wall of China

Taj Mahal

Petronas Tower

Angkok Wat

Gyeongbokgung Palace

Aiins World also have miniatures of famous palace in South Korea like Gyeongbokgung Palace. We did enjoyed touring around the world in less than 2 hours! Going back to Myeogdong, we just walked to reach the nearest subway station (Samsan Stadium Station). From there we get off to "Onsu Station" and transfer to Blue Line to reach Seoul Station, then another transfer to reach Myeongdong Station.

South Korea Again - Day 3

Annyeong Haseyo!!!

Another cold day here in Korea, we still manage to wake up early, as we want to accomplish many places today!

breakfast "spicy noodles"

GYEONGBUKGONG PALACE

I wanted to visit this palace because of the drama Rooftop Prince! I really love that drama starring Micky Yoochun of JYJ and Han Ji Min, this place was feature during their Joseon Dynasty part in the drama.

But before we enter the palace, we watched the marching ceremony or changing of guards in front of palace.

Cool outfits that can be seen on some sageuk drama, I just love the colorful outfit with their accessories/armors. 

After the changing of guards we entered the palace, 3000won for the entrance fee.

Another Korean Drama that was filmed here is JEWEL IN THE PALACE, but the area was under renovation, it's the kitchen area of the palace.

Still exploring the place until I found what I'm looking for, the pond where Bak Ha drowned :) Well another part of the Korean Drama "ROOFTOP PRINCE", I'm so happy to see the place, but again they are doing some constructions on this place. I love the view here, I'm reminiscing the drama too, sad part of the drama :(

feeling Koreana ^^

More pics of the palace.

We exit on the left side of the palace and seen The Blue House.

I just love these trees, the changing of leaves ... lovely!

We kinda lost our way going to the subway, so we ended up again infront of Gyeongbokgung Palace and watched the changing of guards (again), this time we took photos with the guards! Woah these guards were amazing, like they don't move at all, and I noticed that they were kinda tall and they also wearing a make up (BB Cream!!! kekekeke)

BUKCHON HANOK VILLAGE/ SANGGOJAE

Our next destination is Sanggojae which is located in Bukchon Hanok Village, from Gyeongbukgong Station we ride the subway going to Anguk Station, though it's not my first time here, but just to make sure I did asked some Koreans along the way if we are on the right way , well they were very helpful and kind as always (I really love Koreans). On the front of the village, tourist information staff/crew can be found, they understand English well, so I still asked the way to Sanggojae, again just to make sure that we won't get lost , we don't want to waste time ^^

Reaching the place,  it still makes me giggles that my LEE MIN HO had been to this place, sit on the same place we've sit, stand on the same place we've stand in, walk to same place that we also walked in! Crazy huh???, yeah right! So crazy over LEE MIN HO <3

Enough of these craziness! ^^ Move!! move ^_^

Some pics of Buckhon Hanok Village

We didn't explore much here in the village, basically you'll be seeing the same place or same style of the house/structure. But it doesn't mean I don't like the place, I actually want to experience living in hanok 'coz I love the structure of it, hoping that someday I can own one ^_^

So what's next??? We head back to Myeongdong (at our place) and we had our lunch first before going to Namsan Tower or N Seoul Tower.

N SEOUL TOWER

This place is just near to Namsan Guesthouse 3, we just walked for about 10 minutes and reach the Namsan Cable car, we queued for the tickets and paid 8000won (roundtrip).

Must visit place for Korean Drama addicts! Boys Over Flower, Rooftop Prince, My Lovely Kim Sam Soon, Protect The Boss, Can't Lose, My Girl, Iris, Beautiful Days, etc was filmed here. See how famous is this place, a really tourist spot! You'll see a lot of tourist here and locals as well.

Riding the cable car, of course would remind you a lot of Korean Dramas too ^^ 

Beautiful Seoul

It was a short ride in a cable car, nothing beats Ngong Ping Cable Car in Hong Kong! ^^ 

N Seoul Tower

Love Locks

Teddy Bear Museum

Observatory Tower + Teddy Bear Museum Ticket for 14,000won

Observatory Tower

To view the beauty of SEOUL, make sure you go here at the observatory tower. You can also buy here some souvenirs, love a letter to your special someone at N Love Letter, look for your country and see how many miles away are you from Seoul ^^

Manila ^^

That's it for Day 3, see how beautiful the N Seoul Tower at night!