We flew back on Wednesday and boy was it a long flight. We had a 5 hour lay over in Singapore. Originally we were going to take the tour, but the 1:00pm was booked. If we go on the 3:00pm tour we would miss our flight so we just hung out in the airport. The airport is quite nice. A HUGE shopping mall really.
Between the 3 of us there are 1000+ of pictures taken, still trying to sort them out. Once I have them I’ll post them here.
Here are some high light and low lights of the trip.
High Lights
- Korea
- Subway – fantastic – took us everywhere we needed to go.
- Our awesome apartment
- Random Korean guy on the subway handing Mr a coupon to McDonald’s
- Food – oh so good food
- Shrines
- DMZ -watched a tourist getting his photo deleted because he didn’t comply to the no photo rule
- DMZ – ROK soldiers in their ROK ready stand
- DMZ – Over hearing someone saying visiting DMZ was like visiting Chechnya.
- DMZ – Over heard a German guy saying “I don’t like to tell people where I am from because my people almost killed everyone.”
- DMZ – Third Tunnel of Aggression – We were made to wear hard hats good things too because I keep hear people baning their hard hats on the ceiling.
- A kind chef taking us around building 63 in search of the bar that over looks the city.
- Isodong – super nice neighborhood and great place to eat
- Olympic park – it is HUGE! (we went there because Mr’s cousin Barbra competed in the Olympics for Ireland)
- Palace, palaces, and more palaces
- Tombs
- Korean War Memorial
- Bali
- Staying at the Ritz!
- Free food!
- $100 spending money
- Awesome BakBone swag
- Ocean view
- Elephant Safari (Hati Hati!)
- Rice Field : Walking through the rice fields
- Rice Field: Getting a new outfit (see Low light walking through rice fields)
- Rice Field: Seeing vanilla and coffee beans growing in the wild
- Free spa treatment
- Temples
- Royal Funeral
- Petting a bomb sniffing dog
- Walking to the Beach
- Relaxing and living the Island life
Low Lights
- Korea
- Seodaemun Prision – Forgot to bring my camera
- It was so hot, and not in a good way.
- Walking in the middle afternoon to building 63
- Finding out that the observation deck on building 63 is closed for repair after walking there. (it was HOT!)
- DMZ – Didn’t get to see the conference room because a meeting was going on that day. I am sure that the meeting was more important than bunch of tourists!
- DMZ – NO PICTURES!
- DMZ – Didn’t see any North Korean soldiers.
- DMZ – Obnoxious tourists – Really loud Canadian woman that wouldn’t shut up.
- Didn’t go out at night because of jet lag and tired of walking all day.
- Bali
- Rice Field – falling into the spring water ditch
- Rice Field – Camera got wet and sandy and broken
- Rice Field – getting laughed by the locals while wet and shivering waiting for the van to pick us up.
- Too short of a time spent there
- Missed a spa treatment because we were too tired after looking at the royal funeral
Will post photos and details of trip in subsequent posts!