Hello!
Yep! Yep! Setelah 4 attempts untuk ke Korea gagal, at last berjaya jugak menjejakkan kaki ke sana. Nanti cerita lain pasal 4 kali kegagalan tersebut. Phewh! Tapi tak dapat stay lama sebab partner tak boleh cuti lama-lama. So, dapatlah 5d4n je. Sobs!
Weols pergi masa autumn. 16-20 April 2015.
Day 1 :
Supposed fly malam before tu, tapi terpaksa burn tic tu. So, fly the next morning. Sampai Incheon airport petang around 3pm waktu sana. Before fly dah check weather sana about 20 deg cel je. Sekali nak touch down tu captain tu announced it was 8 deg cel. *gulp!* Nasib baik bawak jacket tebal sikit, ikut hati memula malas bawak sebab fikir dah 20++ deg cel kat sana.
I'm so jelly with these two
Heavenly baring dalam flight while i suffered so much duduk diam-diam
Sampai je airport, bermulalah pengembaraan yang menguji kesabaran dan keimanan. Ok. kisahnya cenggini. Kalau fly malam, sampai sana pagi supposed akan ada orang tunggu weols kat Incheon airport. Nama dia adlee. Malaysian student dekat sana. Tapi since weols tetiba fly pagi sampai petang, adlee tu tak dapat tunggu kat airport petang tu sebab dia ada class. Dia suggest weols sampai terus pergi guesthouse then malam dia akan jumpa weols and take us out for dinner. Malangnya, sampai ke sudah dia tak muncul dah tak dapat dihubungi. Kau bayangkan jah, ikut plan dia yang akan bawak weols merayap kat sana tetiba dia takde. Mati kutu jah oi!
Nak menjadikan cerita ni lebih tragis, weols dah sampai kawasan guesthouse tu tapi masalahnya weols tak tau no apartment dia. Waktu tu pulak hari dah semakin gelap dan sejuk! Nak pergi ke apartment dia tak susah dari airport tu, tapi jadi masalah bila tak tau no apartment dia. Dan weols tak dapat nak contact host guesthouse tu sebab no wifi and no coverage. We tried to communicate with local people there, but it was so hard as they cannot speak in english at all. Sobs! Actually they are nice and willing to help as some of them approached us first, but unfortunately dorang tak dapat nak bantu because of language barrier. Sobs again!
At the end, weols decided to patah balik to the subway station to get wifi there. Actually we decided to go back to airport as that's the most comfortable place untuk merempat and ada wifi. But thanked Allah, dekat subway station nak ke airport tu je dah dapat wifi. So aku terus call kakaotalk dia, tapi tak angkat. Nak taknak, mesej jela kakaotalk dia. Alhamdulillah dia reply cepat. Masa tu memang nak marah. Dengan adlee yang hilang, dengan dia tak bagi no apartment. Penat gila kot ulang-aling berjalan sana sini dengan luggage dekat 20kg. Anyway, nama host weols tu Angela. Dia memang dah provide everything to us. Alamat, how to get to her apartment, how much to topup our T-Money, etc. Satu je masalahnya, no apartment dia takde. Dah dapat no apartment dia, weols patah balik pergi kawasan apartment and sampai je kat sana, dia pun ada kat sana baru balik kerja. Maka, together-gether lah weols menuju ke apartment.
Her apartment was very cozy, cute and warm. Very comfy! So tak jadi nak marah masa tu. Hahaha! Anyway, Angela is a good host actually. She's very nice, speak english well. She even printed out subway maps for us. Then she provided us information on how to get to the places that we wanted to visit. Oh! The best thing she did for us was, dia bagi weols bawak portable wifi dia bila weols keluar merayap sebab dia tau susah for us to contact her if ada emergency! She's really nice.
Check-out Angela's guesthouse apartment here: Angela's Place
Disebabkan adlee tu tak muncul, weols jadi lost sekejap nak ke mana merayap. Al-maklumlah, patutnya ada orang bawak, so weols tak study lah jalan-jalan kat sana. So weols belasah jelah kemana-mana je pun kaki melangkah. *Sigh*
Day 2 :
First, menapak kat Seodaemun Prison History Museum and Seodaemun Independence Park sebab tempat ni dekat dengan apartment. Then, pergi traditional market kat situ, tak ingat namanya. Pastu, dah taktau nak pergi mana.
Seodaemun Prison History Museum
Seodaemun Independence Park
Seodaemun Independence Park
Seodaemun Independence Park
Seodaemun Independence Park
Seodaemun Independence Park
Near traditional market. Forgot the name.
Second, menapak ke Lotte World! Lepas dah tak tau nak ke mana tu, ber-kakotalk-lah dengan Angela tanya macam mana nak ke Lotte World. Dia pun bagi ler direction. Pastu ingat nak pergi the next day, Saturday. Tapi Angela advised to pergi that day, Friday sebab kalau Saturday confirmed ramai orang. Then Angela siap belikan kitorang entrance tic online lagi. Murah weh kalau nak bandingkan dengan beli kat counter. Hahaha.
After she purchased the tic, she send me the tic thru kakaotalk. she said just show the tic to the counter staff. But unfortunately when i showed the tic to their staff, she said the tic was meant for korean only. *Gulp!* Then, kakaotalk Angela again. Angela talked to them and somehow, we were able to masuk guna that tic! Wohhoo!
Day 3 :
We spent the whole day tawaf Nami Island. Tiring! Haha!
Day 4 :
First, weols pergi tawaf Gyeongbokgung Palace.
Second, Keluar dari palace tu, kitorang tengok-tengok Gwanghwamun Square pulak. Tapi ni jalan je. Stop sekejap snap pic then jalan terus ke subway station kat depan tu ha. Tu pasal pic sikit jek.
Third, weols menuju ke Namsan Tower! Ok. Masa kat Namsan tower, we were so excited! The view was just wonderful! Ciptaan Allah yang sangat indah. Pokok-pokok / bunga-bunga yang warna-warni. Just lovely! Membuatkan hati weols pon ceria, walaupun time tu hujan gerimis. Tapi gerimis yang mengundang ceria! Hahaha!
@ Bus stand in front of Dongguk Univ waiting for bus to go to Namsan Tower
Bas akan stop di bus stop bawah. Then kena jalan kaki naik bukit sikit untuk sampai di tower
Fourth, on the way nak turun dari tower, ada Namsan Public Library. Weols stop sekejap kat library tu sebab dia punya scenery sangat-sangat cantik!
Fifth, weols terus menuju ke Myeongdong Market untuk beauty shppoing sikit. Huh. Penatlah jugak! Tapi takde pic to share sebab terlalu dan teramat penat even to snap pictures. Sobs!
Sixth, walaupun kaki rasa dah nak tercabut, gagah jugak berjalan menuju ke Namdaemun Market. Hajatnya nak beli any cenderahati or tshirt murah-murah. Sekali sampai kat sana, sunyi sepi dan suram. Pelik gila! Masa tu dalam pukul 9-10 malam kalau tak silap. Rupanya dah tutup. Sobs! Tapi nasib baik ada satu kedai jual cenderahati tu masih bukak. Dapatlah beli fridge magnet. Hahaha. Tapi sedih jugaklah tak dapat beli tshirt. Sobs!
Balik apartment Angela, dah nak tengah malam. Dengan kaki yang macam nak tercabut, dengan tangan yang terseksa bawak barang berat gila. Hahaha. Gila sungguh! Malam tu sembang-sembang sekejap dengan Angela, tanyalah dia memang Namdaemun Market tu tutup awal ke? Dia pun terkejut weols kata market tu dah tutup. Dia kata, selalu memang market tu akan bukak sampai lewat malam. Maybe ada something yang membuatkan operasi dorang stop awal kot time weols pergi tu. Kecewa gila! Takde rezeki nak bagi duit kat ajussi/ajumma kat Namdaemun Market tu. Sobs!
Day 5 :
Sadly, time to fly back to Malaysia. Off to the airport together with Angela as she's going to work. We parted in the bus. Sobs!
Me and Angela
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