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South Korea 2014: Day 3 - Seoul Land and Seoul Zoo

June 8, 2014
Day 3

SEOUL LAND

South Korea has plenty of theme parks they have Everland which is the largest theme park in the country, Lotte World which is the largest "indoor theme park" in the world, Seoul Land located in Seoul Grand Park, which is smaller than Everland and they also have Children's Grand Park.


I've been to Everland last September 2013 and visited Lotte World twice in 2012 (Feb & Nov). And now we are going to visit Seoul Land to complete our amusement/theme park tour ^_^



Lotte World

Everland

Welcome to Seoul Land!


flowers overload!


Address
181, Gwangmyeong-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
경기도 과천시 광명로 181 (막계동)

How to get here:
Seoul Grand Park Station (Subway Line 4), Exit 2
Ride the elephant train (cost 1000 won), Seoul Land is the last stop.

Seoul Land Map

Admission Fees:

Admission only
Day-time : Adult 20,000 won / Youth 17,000 won / Children 15,000 won
Night-time : Adult 18,000 won / Youth 15,000 won / Children 13,000 won
One day pass
Adult 34,000 won / Youth 30,000 won / Children 27,000 won
* Admission + unlimited free use of all attractions (except experiential facilities/ coin facilities/ special exhibitions/ special performances) cr: Seoul Land (visitkorea)



We only pay for admission fee of 15,000 won instead of 20,000 won because to foreign discount ^_^ . Yes it is for admission only, we just want to explore Seoul Land and watch special performance (if there is).



Seoul Land "World Square"


Seoul Land Leaning Tower

Seoul Land has unique themes presented in the World Plaza, Adventure Land, Fantasy Land, Tomorrow Land, Samchulli Hill and others.

World Plaza has Kids Land which is available for children under 130cm and GameWorld that has various coin operated amusement facilities.


Adventure Land has Shooting Gallery, Bumper Boats, Remote Control Boats, Sudden Attack, Sky Adventure(challenger), Sky Adventure (beginner), Kiddy Coaster, Den of Lost Thieves, King Viking, and Flume Ride.




Fantasy Land has Electronic Game Arcade, Midway Game, Mini Bumper Cars, Peter Pan, Cloud Bread, Kambu Airplane, Dragon Tank, Arpo Swing, Lava Twister, Canimals Circus, Rudolf 2 Loop Coaster, Wate Walk, Hi-Roller, Action Zone, Convoy Race, Musical Carousel, Sky Cycle, World Cup, Kartrider Bumper, Big Merry-Go-Round, Vroomiz Hill.







Tomorrow Land has Mini Viking, X Flyer, Black Hole 2000, Zeppelin, Rock Cafe, Double Loop Coaster, Crazy Mouse, Crazy House, Frog Hopper, Sky X, Shot Drop, Motion Theater, Super Telecombat, Tilt House, and Time Machine 5d 360.

Black Hole 2000


Samchulli Hill has Outdoor Pool(only open during summer), Snow Sled (winter only), Hutos Media Town, Archery Ranger, Haunted House and Top Spin.


This month of June Seoul Land has Character Festival, wherein popular cartoon characters will appear in parades and visitors will have the opportunity to take pictures with them.







We had a lot of photo-ops in Seoul Land, also a lot of locals here compared to Everland and Lotte World. If I would rate these 3 theme park, my vote goes to Everland but this is kinda far from Seoul but really worth a visit. But Seoul land is not bad at all, for kids and kids at heart will surely enjoy this place.


Off to our next destination... SEOUL ZOO!

SEOUL ZOO
Address
102, Daegongwongwangjang-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
경기도 과천시 대공원광장로 102 (막계동)

Seoul Zoo Map


How to get here:
Seoul Grand Park Station (Subway Line 4), Exit 2
*From Seoul Land we just walked a few minutes to Seoul Zoo.

Admission Fees: 3,000 won

Operating Hours
Summer(09:00 ~ 19:00)/ Winter(09:00 ~18:00)/ Night opening (July 17 ~ August 28): 09:00~22:00
* Last admission: 1hr before the closing time

Free Zoo Shuttle Bus Information
Operating Hours: 10am to 5pm
Arrival Frequency: Every 15 minutes from the departure point (Large Herbivores Pavilion)
Every 30 minutes during lunch time (11:30am - 1:30pm)
Bus operation may stop in case of excessive number of zoo visitors

We just walked from Seoul Land to Seoul Zoo, good thing the weather is just perfect! The zoo has rare gorilla and about 360 kinds of animals, and total of 3,200 creatures from all over the world.

What to see here?

This zoo has a lot to offer: 
  • Flamingo Pavilion
  • Africa Adventure
    • 1st African Pavilion (Giraffe, Zebra)
    • 2nd African Pavilion (Hippo, Nyala, Barbary Sheep)
    • 3rd African Pavilion (Lion, Cheetah)
  • Ape Pavilion
  • Large Herbivores Pavilion (Elephant, Watusi Cattle, Rhinoceros)
  • Elephant Observatory
  • North Korean Animals Pavilion(Eurasian Lynx, Canis Lupus Chanco)
  • Fox Pavilion (Fox, Snow Leopard)
  • Camel Pavilion (Camel, Mongolian Equus Ferus)
  • Oriental Pavilion (Snake, Crocodile, Monkey)
  • Beast Pavilion (Tiger, Puma, Leopard)
  • Bear Pavilion (Lesser Panda, Bear)
  • Small Carnivores Pavilion (Skunk, Binturong)
  • Marine Pavilion (Dolphin Show)
  • Stork Village (White Stork, Crowned Crane, Black-faced Spoonbill)
  • Poultry Pavilion (Pheasant, Chicken)
  • Large Waterfowl Aviary (Red-crowned Crane, Pelican, Tundra Swan)
  • Birds of Prey Pavilion (Eagle, Condor)
  • Peacock Village (Peacock, Golden Pheasant)
  • Deer Pavilion
  • South American Pavilion (Crocodile, Anaconda, Sloth, Llama)
  • Bison Pavilion (Native Animal Breeding Center)
  • Artificial Nursery (Baby Animal)
  • Tropical Birds Hall (Macaw, Parrot)
  • Nocturnal Pavilion (Korean Wood Owl, Owl, Bat)
  • Insectatium
  • Austrian Pavilion (Kangaroo, Emu)



Planet of the Apes

Lee Kwangsoo! ^_^

Lion



Elephants


Aside from animals you can also find some beautiful flowers here, like these lovely Alliums!

Lovely Allium (Yeppuda!)



yellow flowers!

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.