cerealjoe | Last full day as a tourist... (Reply)

Chronicles of the last full day in Korea... playing tourist is tiring but someone has to do it!

Let's see the day started with breakfast, even after two weeks I still couldn't handle a proper Korean breakfast. I bet that after a couple of months I could, theory to test out.

In chronological order: Seoul Tower touristy stuff, Charlie Brown, and walking along Insa-dong back in my Anguk 'hood.

I was really set to conquer more tourist sites and sights but it turned out that Thursday was one of the hottest and most humid days in the year. Even at 8am it was already hell. The moment I got out of the metro I spotted a place with A/C and I really thought about just going there instead of going to the park.

I did wander around the Namsan park and saw the Seoul Tower, I didn't go up there though, it would have required too much effort.

They have this village set up there and usually you have standard "keep out" signs but this one was rather interesting.

So after about an hour in the heat, I went inside and got some reading done and then headed out to Hongdae which is supposed to be the hip neighbourhood around one of the universities. And the Lomo shop is there.

There are tons of small trendy cafes there but you can't get much better than a Charlie Brown themed one. There was one that read "Finnish tradition" and something about corn... for some reason I decided not to see what that was all about.

There is a huge part of my day that's not documented because well, I was basically looking for awesome random stuff at one of the biggest malls in Asia. I basically found tons of imports from Japan and tons of stuff that's somehow related to European cities... but nothing really that would scream "Korea" and wouldn't be just a souvenir. I also went to those fancy department stores in the hopes of finding funky Japanese imported KitKats but once again it proved that Korea just doesn't like KitKats.