Seeing as how this post on Busan is about two weeks late, I figured better late than never. March 1st marks Korean Independence Day, so Derik and I experienced our first Korean holiday! We took advantage of the day and caught a bus up to Busan Wednesday night (45 min drive). Overall, great experience filled wish shopping, food, and general site seeing. This post isn’t so much an informative post as it is a photo post. Please enjoy!
Wednesday night, trying to find someplace to eat.
First subway ride...cost 1400 won, so about a dollar and some change. Not bad.
We got a great hotel room, quite a bit different than in the US.
Room
The bathroom had a strange resemblance to an airplane bathroom, except luxury style.
The hotel room comes complete with slippers and a rice cooker.
Good to know.
Yes. Believe it.
The view of Busan from our hotel room. I love cities.
Oh the things you see.
At Haeundae Beach, one of the most popular beaches in Busan.
Haeundae Beach
Observation
Took the boardwalk to see the legendary mermaid statue, and a dinosaur footprint. Saw the mermaid, not the footprint. It was a ploy...I'm sure of it.
Boys had to have a closer look....
APEC Center. Not sure if i'm right about this...but it's a congressional hall of some sort...
APEC Center
Futuristic.Love.
Gwangan Bridge, love to see this at night!
The fishing docks.
It was Korean Independence day...so of course there was a concert and dancing outside the temple. The main photographer was so focused on getting our picture, he blatantly followed us around everywhere. Probably because it's cool to have Americans frequent the festivities. Our faces were probably all over the newspapers.
Outside the temple.
Chelsea and Jeremy were very generous in sharing the best location in South Korea (um...rivals those in the states for sure) for burgers. Seriously-the best.
I was all about the cream cheese in my 'New York' burger...derik went with the pineapple and teriyaki in his 'Honolulu' burger.
Once thing they have a lot of in Korea is English misusage or misspelling. Its hilarious actually.
It's hard to find a size 32 pant for Derik, but we had no problems finding a size 85.
International Market shopping.