3 days in Seoul: Day 1

On Tuesday Katie, Terri and I took the bus up to Seoul. On day 1 we took a hop on hop off tour of Seoul. We actually didn't hop off at too many places though.

Our first stop was a shopping district to get some food. We were hungry and realized that we would be unable to order food from a Korean restaurant because we wouldn't be able read the menu so we ended up eating at McDonalds. On a side note I have quickly realized, as I had suspected before I traveled here, that I do not like Korean food, shocking I know, so finding food to eat has been some what difficult at times.

So in the shopping district Katie bought a new purse, had lunch and then got back on the hop on hop off tour. Our first real stop was a traditional Korean folk village, which was located in downtown Seoul.

Then we watched a Taekwondo show at the folk village.

Some highlights from the show.

And our second stop was N Seoul Tower, which is kind of like Seoul's version of the Eiffel Tower.

We road the bus the for the rest of the tour of the city, to get our money's worth, but we didn't get off again (mainly because it was late and we didn't have time.)

And then we had to find the hostel we were staying in. This only turned out to be a problem because we had left the directions at Angie's apartment and we had trouble finding internet access so I could get to my email. But we found our way and got to our hostel a little later than we were planning and went out for some quick, and as it turned out also very cheap, Korean barbecue for a late dinner and then went to bed.