second Day (27/10/2007) Seoul The delayed departure from Beijing and one hour time difference, we arrived at the 27.10.
in Incheon. From the airport to Seoul
's down by 2 clock night no more public connection. Since the distance is about 50 km, I feared an expensive taxi ride. After I had finally found an ATM (which you'll find on the arrivals level only once every 500 meters), I asked at the information - without really hoped for a positive response - whether it perhaps is a bus.
put this out that Air China had rented because of the considerable Vespätung buses waiting at a certain exit to passengers. Literally in the last minute we were able to reach our hotel right bus, barely got in, we went even really got going. In the end, that's 3:15 clock when I opened the door.
The next morning, the first view from the hotel room of
Ibis Myeong-dong after a short night:
The first objective of
Gyeongbokgung (경복궁) was:
Tor (Geunjeongmun ) with guards
detailed views
throne
living room (one of the original 5792!)
this beautiful autumn-Saturday took advantage of course, many Koreans for a trip .. .
On the grounds of the palace also houses the National Museum:
image of the original palace complex (330 buildings, 410.000m ²)
천하 대장군 (Cheonha daejanggun - Korean totems)
lurking just behind the palace walls of the modern age:
in a Korean supermarket think you are on a traditional market from all corners shouting vendors and their wares, whether fish, mushrooms or bananas:
course, there are also dried fish and seaweed ...
... and the inevitable kimchi in Korea
:
Rice can be bought like in the 20kg pack
These pictures are from the food section of the Lotte Department stores. The name of this company is neither Japanese nor Korean, but from the German. The founder of Shin Kyuk-Ho was so excited about
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and especially by his "The Sorrows of Young Werther," that he based on Charlotte (often abbreviated to Lotte) his company the same name, albeit in Japanese pronunciation
ロッテ "gang" was. [From Wikipedia
]
In the food court of Lotte's a running sushi restaurant that attracted us magically. Unlike in Austria, is not 'all you can eat', but it is billed by the plates (by color or pattern different prices) here. Each place has its own hot water tap for dispensing tea and miso soup is immediately refilled as soon as the bowl is empty.
The subway system is exemplary: each station is numbered, so it is easy even without knowledge of Korean to the goal.
The outputs of the stations are numbered, so that thanks to the area plans in each station, the desired destination (hotel, tourist attraction, office, bus station, etc.) easy to find - what so often at over 12 otherwise outputs would work easily.
The Seoul Metro
has about 8 million passengers a day by the way - in the year of 2.5 billion! With the construction only began in 1971, today there are 287 kilometers!
's later went to the viewing platform of the 236.7 meter high Seoul Tower
.
As a 10 million city (in the contiguous area are about 22 million people) are expected otherwise, the visibility was affected by smog.
Korail has trains French Development (TGV) in use, called KTX
.
high-tech toilet
