Busan

We went to Busan a couple of weekends ago and it was great. It was a bit of a rough start since we missed the bus we were aiming for. Apparently Koreans can be early! Yes it was quite a shocker since they are notoriously and chronically late. Our bus was supposed to leave at 8:10 and at 8:08 it was already gone. No biggie. We got the next bus.

It is definitely somewhere I’ll be going back to…several times. It’s more modern, way cleaner than Suncheon and quite a bit bigger. There is a huge beach called Hyundae beach and it is beautiful! At night, it was nice to walk along the board walk with everything lit up along the shore and on the hills. Through the day we went to the aquarium and did some shopping. The aquarium was good, nothing overly unique in what they had, but it was nice and big. Their “theme” I guess you would call it was to take famous paintings and change them by putting sea creatures in place of the people ie. The Girl with a Pearl Earring was now a Fish with a Pearl Earring. Yeah, different. Yet another random aspect to the aquarium was the little 3-D theatre you could go to at the end. Sometimes I thought we were on drop zone because the Koreans were screaming so, sooooo much. It was ridiculous. Anyways, for supper we stuffed ourselves with Indian food. Mmmmmm, curry; I love you so much.
As a bonus feature in Busan, there were several matching couples. Okay, so there were only about 4 couples, but that’s the most I’ve seen so far. The level of matching ranged from matching shoes to pretty much entire matching outfits. I think the top prize would go to a couple we saw on the subway who had similar shoes, khaki bottoms and striped, button down shirts.

Yesterday the school took us on a staff outing to see the cherry blossoms in Gwangyang. They were quite pretty, but there weren’t as many as we were expecting. For lunch we had bulgogi, which Gwangyang is famous for. It’s very thinly sliced meat cooked over hot wood. It was my favourite Korean meal yet! The meat was so nice and lean (something pretty rare here). We came back to Suncheon and went to Jungdu mountain for some more cherry blossom viewing…and ice cream.