My last post was during my vacation and right before I went to Busan! Busan is a very lovely city on the southeastern coast of Korea, I went there with my friend Joe and we stayed there for four wonderful days.
We left Seosan on Thursday afternoon headed toward Daejon to catch the KTX (a train that goes super fast) and got into Busan around 9:00 on Thursday night. The Korean countryside is really pretty, here are some pictures from the KTX:
Once we got to the hostel we were staying at we received a warm welcome from Tiger, who runs the hostel, and all of the other travelers there. It was pretty cool, everyone was hanging out like they were at a friend's house and discussing their plans for the evening, which they wanted to make sure we were included in! We had missed dinner with them so we went to grab a bite to eat and met up with them a little later on in the evening...Tiger certainly knows how to show his guests a good time.
There were quite a few of us, i'm not sure where everyone was when I took these pictures, but these were all that I took at dinner...
After dinner we went to a bar called Thursday Party, it was MADE for foreigners. They have a beer pong table, darts, and reasonably priced beer, it was lovely. Once we decided we were done there we moved on to a different Thursday Party (there are 8 in Busan) in another part of town where I met several people from MN and a bunch of other foreigners who live in Busan, it is always lovely to meet new foreigners. We decided to end that night a little earlier than we had the night before, which was fine with me, so we hopped in a cab and went back to the hostel.
Saturday we went to the aquarium, it was pretty cool, and I took a ton of pictures! But, before heading in to the aquarium Joe and I thought it would be a good idea to get artificial tattoos of cats, they made us look pretty tough.
We also ran into some large dancing fish people...they were pretty cool.
Then, we entered the aquarium!
There were some pretty cool fish there, unfortunately, I cannot remember what many of them were...
After the aquarium we went back the hostel to see what everyone else was up to and plan our adventure for out last night in Busan. First we went to dinner with some of the people from the hostel and had sashimi which is raw fish! I was nervous, but it was actually really good!
These are all of the complimentary sides they give you.
Including shrimp...with eyeballs still attached...
This was the sashimi.
After dinner they gave us soup, complete with a fish head and brains still inside...
When dinner was done we wandered off to the beach in search of a music festival that we could not find so, instead, we sat on the beach and enjoyed some games, lovely conversation, and watching the tide, which was crazy because there was a typhoon in Japan on its way towards us.
Fortunately for us, the typhoon changed its path and went to China, though it was pretty serious, several of my friends were stuck in Shanghai for several days on their way back from Thailand because of it and around 200,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes.
We made it back without too many complications and I think now, over a week later, I am finally caught up on sleep. I was going to post some pictures of the view from my hostel, which was right across the street from the ocean, but after an hour of trying to upload them I am done waiting. I will try again later and write more soon! I also have today off for Korean Independence day so I am going to go wander around and find a good place to read my book and write some postcards!
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