Busan 3D2N- Day 1

Just back from Dance Class at Winners Dance School!
I went for Girls Hip Hop dance class with Sinlin , my very first Girls hiphop class!
It was full of waves, hip movement. Not used to dancing sexily but i enjoyed the class, hehe, shake shake shake hips!

sinlin and i and our dance instructor^^

hehehe my card ^^

Shagged but today ill blog about my Busan trip before sleeping, hope i can finish before i fall asleep ! :D

My blog posts on Day 1,2 and 3 are scattered around , here are the links for your convenience:
Busan Day 2, 3

I went to Busan for 3D2N from October 12-14th, where i stayed at HiKorea Hostel.
It was recommended by my friends and furthermore, its near Haeundae Beach! ( can watch sunrise/sunset!)
Thus i decided to stay there  :)
I went Busan with my SNU Buddy friends, Yuni, Jenessa and Julie.

As we went for 3D2N, we bought the KR youth pass, 67700won for unlimited rides. But it can only be used for 3 days. Should we have bought the normal KTX fares, it would around 110k won for to and fro rides, so it was quite a huge saving!

But unfortunately, we went to reserve our seats too late, hence we couldnt take the earlier rides like 8am/9am. We opted for the 11am ride.

If you dont know where to get your KR pass, here are the directions:

Dont go to travel center. Get your KR pass at the counter on the left . 

hehe me and my kr pass and our carriage! Jen was too lazy to come out to take photo, i was the more hardworking traveller :P

Finally the train has started to move!

As i had animal behaviour mid terms, hence i brought my studying materials on board. Sometime i feel im too hardworking for an exchange student

love my colourful highlighters. All the colours got meaning, yellow for main title, red for sub title, green for main points. heheheh

After a 2-3hours ride, we finally reached Busan!

I was lugging my luggage bag while the rest carried their backpacks. Yes we are only staying for 2 nights and yes i brought a small luggage bag.

 It was such a hassle that for that period of time, all i can think of was to dump my luggage in our room before exploring Busan. And thus we made our way for our accommodation first before having our lunch.

the buzzer and me, always fascinated by it

our first meal, Lotteria . my tendergrill chicken kept sliding everywhere. In the end i gave up trying to hold it in the burger and just decided to eat it layer by layer.

Rating: average. the tendergrill chicken tasted like burger king's tendergrill chicken. not much difference but its expensive! i cant remember how much though

a cute motel we saw, pretty creative!

Jenessa was our itinerary planner for the Busan trip and she did a great job! Kudos to her for all the planning. She memorised all the locations and directed us the way. 

Our Itinerary for Day1:

1)Gwangalli Beach

2)Jagalchi Market

3)Nampo

we took the exit 5 and after that we turned to the left and walked beside some construction site. there was directions pasted around and we also followed some of the people who seemed to be going to the same place as us.

A Panorama view of Gwangalli Beach! I didnt know how to use the Panorama function in my camera hence i had to resort to using my handphone instead thus the resolution isnt that good.

busy yuni, busy bee

This was the most comical moment. I wanted them to help me take a illusion of me holding onto the sun. And  Yuni and Julie crouched down to take photo. Jen couldnt help laughing at us and snapped this photo. The BTS of an illusion shot.

We stayed at the beach for more than an 1hour, till the sun has set. The beach was gorgeous

Ratings: 

the beach was awesome. there was some performance nearby us but we didnt go because we werent keen in the music genre. Its a good spot for couples and families. I saw quite a number of couples and families hanging out there. There are cafes and food nearby so you could enjoy your meals while watching sunset/the beach view.

After that  we took the metro and we went to the Jalgalchi Market as it was a tourist hotspot,

At that time i knew there was some jagalchi event but i thought that we wouldnt be able to catch it but we did haha

when we saw these banners we were still wondering if we were at jagalchi market

until when we saw this fish looking sign, then we were like, ' oh ok, so this is the market'.
There were many stalls selling fresh seafood, but we didnt quite like the fishy smell hence we didnt eat there, we only looked around to see whats the attraction of the fish market. so it turned out, fresh seafood is the attraction.

this lady was touting us but we declined,sorry ahjumma, today we dont feel like eating seafood:P

rows and rows of stalls selling seafood,long stretch

i dont know whether is this a makeshift food area or its permanently like this

apparently there is this indoor market, we didnt want to go in there as we were afraid of the fish smell that might stay on our clothes

we chanced upon a performance, with the elderly singing oldies and dancing to it. Its always interesting to watch old ajussi and ahjummas dancing.

Review:
 i guess if you are a seafood lover, you should come here to try the seafood because thats what they are famous for. But if you arent, then the market wouldnt interest you much. Im a neutral , so i come just to see see .haha. Those fashionistas, please dont wear expensive clothes or favourite clothes, you dont wanna get fishy smell on your clothes nor step in fishy water in your shoes! (;

We heard from our friends that the Nampo side has some shopping malls hence we decided to check it out. Then we chanced upon the film festival. Today was actually the last day of the film festival. But in the end we couldnt find the shopping mall, but nevermind, haha i shopped too much already ;p

Se the 4 men at the top left of the advertisement? the 4 gangster-like men? They were featured in my level 1 korean textbook! i was so excited to see what ive seen in my textbook to appear in front of my eyes!

the palms of all the film directors for the past decades

the cute mascot! ahhahaha, initially i didnt dare to take photo with him, then i was thinking, its either now or never. so i summoned my courage and walked up to him, and gestured to him while speaking in smattering korean and yay, he got what i mean.

We had our dinner at this heungkong banjeom. Recently i found out that its available near snu station too, just that they dont sell my favourite jjm T_T

me and jen had jjm, it was jen's first time trying jjm. julie and yuni tried another dish , icant remember what dish.

Ratings: 4/5
Its somewhat average, food in korea is always nice for me. the portion is small though hence i didnt give 5/5. i  like the noodle and the sauce. the onions was nice. the taste of the sauce overtook the onions so thats why i dared to eat it. otherwise, i dont eat cuz i dont like onion taste.

here is another photo if youre looking for it. its in one of the small alleys. unforunately i cant remember the directions.

apparently because some korean shops wanna be cool, they use english, albeit, it turned out comical and sounded wrong. * if you know what i mean*

The table - Delicious love making just for you!

hmmm, i guess they meant to say they made the food with love for their customers? ;)

and omg saw this lorry filed to the brim with oranges.

we tried some 호떡 because we saw a long Q for it. Long Q always means popular for me and feeling hungry, i decided to try it. Apparently, they have been on TV before.

How they make the 호떡:

Ratings: 4/5
Although they were on TV but my 호떡, i like the 'rice cake' thingy ( idont know what it is made of), nice to chew. i like the nuts in it. But, they somehow didnt spread my brown sugar properly, it was all stuck at one corner or i didnt know im supposed to make it spreaded properly. So when i was finishing my 호떡, it became suddenly very sweet since only when i was finishing it, then my tongue got into contact with 70% of the sugar. But other than that, i like it.

after our snack, we decided to head back to our dorm to prepare for the long day ahead. Excited to travel and see new places! WHEEEEE!

okayys, dead tired now, ill be blogging about our Day 2 asap! stay tuned!