*|22nd March - Day 3 of Korea trip (part 2)
I hardly used the internet nowadays... busy wif stuff. Well I am supposed to sleep now but oh well maybe later. Shall continue blogging. Cant believe I take so long to blog out my whole Korea trip.
Anyway after luch, we went to Hwaseong Fortress. It was cold though the sun was beaing. Hwaseong Fprtress is Korean version of the great wall of China. Its really really long. We were only given 20mins though so couldn't go far. Went to took photos and then climbed all the way up to the tower. Actually we didnt climbed, we walked cos Hwaseong Fortress unlike the great wall of China does not have steps or stairways, rather all they have is slopes. When Suzanna jie jie and I went all the way to the foot of the tower, we took a photo with the guides. Erm... weird outfits they have. Up we go into the tower... Climb climb climb. Its just a circular tower wif occasional small rectangular windows. Quite cool. Took less than 3 mins to reach the top. Took photos of sceneery and spotted a far away church. I then tried to take a photo of Suzanna jie jie and me. In the end, I had o take out my gloves cos it is just too difficult to press down the shutter button wif gloves on. Camera came slipping. It took 2 shots to get the photo to be almost perfect. By then my hands were quite cold. Its really windy up there.
After tat, we went back to the coach. It was there tat the tour guide told us the way to the market cum mama store. By then we didnt have much time to walk about so we only went to one mama store. Haha Suzanna jie jie bought some toys for her young relatives. As for me, I bought those cute korean stickers. Apparently Suzanna jie jie and I were not the only patrons of the shop, there were other korean students, bet they just ended school. By then, there was hardly any space in the shop to move around. Oh and I saw the store owner sold those really big, fat, juicy strawberries. Wanted to buy them back to Singapore but didnt cos I knew they couldn't last long. Highly perishable goods. It cost about 4000won which is around S$5. But when I said the strawberries were big, I mean they were really big. They are about the size of 2-3 strawberries sold in Singapore. Can u believe it and all of them are juicy!!!
Suzanna's jie jie's relatives bought pears. YUMMY!!! Love it. Off and away... Going to ginseng planation now. ANOTHER 2HRS JOURNEY!!! Why is Korea so big. As usual, I slept, sleepiness combine wif natural air con (winter air), I slept! Finally reached ginseng plantation and well... not much to c except soil. Wanna know why cos ginseng grow in soil. The only thing that u c sticking out of the soil is leaves. Was told that they grow a standard number of 5 leaves each year. Haha so can tell how old a ginseng is by counting the number of leaves. Interesting...Haha... Oh and now I know wad the yellow thing is... the yellow thing tat sticks out of soil beside gionseng plantation. It is rice and it looks so hard, so stiff, not like the type of rice I learn about in sec 3 geography.
Ok shall stop here. Need to sleep. Super tired. Most probably continue tml. Erm... wondering if I be staying at my godsister's house at Yew Tee tml. If so, I really wonder wad I am going to do there cos there really isnt much to be done there. Haha and I be BUGGED by kids. ARGH!!! Sometimes they are cute and loveable but most of the times they are MONSTERS!!!! haha
*|cailing scribbled on the sand at 10:56 PM|*
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