As you may read the last article it stated I am in the
airport. Here it continues.
My girlfriend had arrived and we meet up with our friend
from Korea who we meet in Newcastle. He lives himself in Seoul and he has shown
us around his city. We had been to a small market street near to our hostel and
continue along to the National Museum where we met up with his girlfriend. While we visited the Museum, most of us felt
very sleepy as we all did not sleep well or had jet leg off the long
travel. We decided therefore to head
back for a little sleep all of us and meet up again at night time for Nansam
Tower in Seoul. It was a great view
during the night onto Seoul.
In the second day we had gone to the bus station to purchase
tickets to Andong, it is better to do in advance due to the holiday. Everyone
is travelling back home to their parents or a meeting point with all the
family. After purchasing the tickets
from the East Bus Station (DongSeoul), we had taken a look on the map where we
could go. I saw that just few stations away the Olympic Stadium of 1988 was
nearby. Therefore we visited the Olympic Park of Seoul Games 1988.
We then taken the Subway back into town of Seoul, on the way
back we come across a stop which called “Market” and decided to have a look. We
found out it is a whole sale market and was very interesting to see on how they
sell it. It is sometimes very hard to purchases something as they try to sell
you either the full box or a bowl of 5 fruits. We only just want to try the
pears, peaches and apple, therefore are not willing to purchase the bowl. We manage to find some stores on where we
could just buy one apple, and at some other stall one peach and one pear. We had a look around the market and continued
back on the journey to city centre on where we try to find the market at Nansam
and maybe to have also some dinner. As
it is the last night of Seoul, I also liked to see the river as I only seen
from the car while stuck in traffic.
We manage to get a subway to the river where we stayed for
an hour before traveling back to the hostel and take a good rest for the journey
southward to Andong.
It is Sunday now and tomorrow is the day of Chuesok. It is a
Korean thanksgiving day, where family member get together and worship their
ancestors. We had made the way the to
the bus station and had around a fours journey to Andong. The bus was full and
I did not been aware we will drive direct to Andong – so great service. I was
as well surprised that 50km before the destination we take a 15mins break. As 50kms is not anymore a long journey.
We arrived late afternoon in Andong and still manage to
visit Tourist Information centre before closure, so they could tell us on how
to get to the famous village in Andong. The most important aspect on where is
the best place to stay overnight. They had given as a few suggestions and then
we made on the way to ask for the best price.
We token a walk in Andong and seen a nice park which looks
many hundred years old, but was just recently build for its local citizen to
relax and for us tourist after the long journey from Seoul. It was a good place
to relax.
The next day has broken in and we been had been given the
information on bus services to Hahoe Village which is not very frequent.
Therefore we decided to take an early bus, maybe a bit too early. It was good as no tourist expect us had been
on the side of arrival, and you got the best spot on taking pictures of the
village. No one will appear in the peaceful village. As today is also Chuesok holiday I will not
expect many visitors coming, but later in the day more people joined from Korea.
Maybe some of their family member used to live in the village. As they worship
their ancestor as mention above.
As we only would spend one day in Andong we decided for
lunch time to head backwards and see if we could visit the bridge, but before
that look on how to return back to Daegu and stop by Tourist Centre. They
advise us that the train and bus service would be very busy and indeed the
train service was fully booked, so the plan change and we gone to bus station
to luckily manage to purchases tickets back to Daegu or may would stuck in
Andong.
After purchasing the tickets we went to the longest
pedestrian bridge in S Korea. It was something special, as usually a bridge is
just for walking over, but on this one you could take a rest in the shadow as
you do on the river bank in Korea.
In our tour guide it had been mention that the chicken dish
is original from Andong, so we shall try it here. We went to the market on
where many vendors been and just decided for one and ordered the dish, being
unaware it is for sharing. As my
girlfriend is vegetarian I had the whole plate for myself – I am sure you can
imagine on how I felt after finishing the dish.
This was the end of the Chuesok, thanks for taking the time
to read the blog. As this was a long blog entry so far.
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