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Review: Blue Backpackers Busan

Despite being a little hard to find, I enjoyed staying at Blue Backpackers Busan. The rooms were nicely decorated and the flooring was heated. It was god sent when the weather was so freezing cold. This was the small dressing table in the room. Look at all the pretty stickers on the wall! Even the inside of the door is not spared. And this is how it looked outside our room~~ This is the corridor towards the rooms. As you can see, each room has its own distinct stickers. This is the stairs to the rooms from the living room. I recalled many nights sitting on the stairs to chat with bf via viber on my phone~~ The living room. It is super awesome. There are free water dispensers and books for browsing.  What I love is the cozy feeling, and the manager speaks decent English. He also helped us to get back to the hostel when we lost our way at night and ended up calling from a convenience store. The living room is quite cold during the winter as many ...

South Korea Seoul and Busan trip (in Photos) Part 1

We took this bus 6015 from Incheon Airport to Namsan Guest House (which is very popular) Namsan Guest House 3 The bus ticket price is 10,000 won, and takes about 1.5hr to reach Myeong Dong. Our trip started with fried chicken! @@ The portion was too horrifying even though we got the cheapest one. (Look below) The cute mascots who were shivering in the cold. Pinching dunno-who in Lotte World  I blended into the background with my white coat!! *gasp* At the Bear Museum Seoul, Namsan Tower Cooking Nanta Bear Version!! Waiting for the Mugunghwa train at Suwon station to go to Busan Our very beautiful guesthouse in Busan =D Blue Backpackers Hostel Sorry about my bulging tummy >.< Went out to meet Young-Jin and he brought us around Pusan National University (PNU) We went trekking at Geumjeong Fortress. It was a crazy hike. Luckily we had Young-Jin to guide us around and because he understands Korean,...

A glimpse of North Korea from South Korea

We were feeling very jittery when we went for the tour as North Korea had just stopped the South Koreans from working in North Korea when we were there. We were watching the news anxiously and praying hard that the tour would not be cancelled. Luckily for us, we managed to catch a few glimpse of this little known place. This was the place that South and North Korea meets. The three guys standing over there are the South Koreans, but we didn't see the triangle formation of the North Koreans though. The guide told us that they sometimes disappear to dunno-where. Maybe for lunch? =P I wanted to take a better picture with this guy but he looks so fierce~ >.< Apparently we can't even touch him as the guide shooed me away once I took this picture. And I nearly stumbled into him in the process since I wasn't looking at where I was going. We had a non-meat lunch. Probably because I don't eat meat, then Yuxi also ate bibimbap with me. The food was not too bad...