Dustyrobe: Korea 2k17 (Seoul / Busan)

It's been almost six months since I embarked on my Korea trip with my close buddies, Jordan and Yi Hong, in the middle of winter in December. We had no proper winter clothing, just heat tech from Uniqlo, and a lot of layers. I wrapped myself in a whopping six layers, looking like a burrito, just to keep myself warm. The Korea trip was most certainly a life changing, and eye opening one. We'd decided on going free and easy for this one, so we had to book everything ourselves and boy was it tough. It was a lot more hassle than we thought. Itinerary wise, we only had a few rough locations in mind, otherwise it was all planned the night before in our BnB.

It was one hell of a crazy trip. We walked all day, slept at 3am, woke at 12 noon, and walked again. We spent all of our money, withdrew more, and spent again. We hiked in Busan, complained about our aching legs, had our breaths taken away by the view, complained again, and repeated the routine everyday. We bought food in marts and Jordan would make our breakfast every morning, and we'd snack on honey butter products past 1am.

We struggled to find food everyday, because Yi Hong and myself couldn't handle too much spiciness. We struggled to find our ways because the two of them couldn't understand Korean and all I knew was basic Korean. I did my best to converse with the locals when purchasing stuffs, enquiring stuffs, and whatnot.

We lived like locals. We stayed in apartments (BnB) instead of hotels, we visited marts, we took the trains and buses. We got lost, we laughed, we took a whole lot of photos. We shivered as the temperature dropped daily, and we found solace in shops embedded with heaters. We got excited like little kids as snow started to fall on us. We ignored our leaking noses and hurting ears, we fully enjoyed the moments.

Korea, you were beautiful. We had one heck of a good time. The company was amazing, I couldn't have asked for better partners in crime for this trip. I'm looking forward to my next overseas trip. Hopefully Australia, or New Zealand.

Cheers.