Challenge to the Max: Viper then Seoul (Day 2)

Our next day was as relaxing as ever. We woke up around 8.30 am then had our breakfast given by the hotel. We toast our own bread and drank coffee at the rooftop. The cool breeze was nice.

The first stop for the day was to Gyeongbokgung palace (entrance fee 3000 won). The place is quite big.

What really confused me was the explanation given by a tour guide between the difference between the queen's resident and the concubine's resident. The concubine's residence appear to be very well maintained. I kind of feel that it is unfair.

 Overall the place was nice and we managed to see some Sakura before spring. There were also royal guards standing there on duty.

Without further delay, we headed to the Bukchon Hanok Village (no entrance fee required, yay).

The place consist of residential area as well as tourist spot so we had to remain an acceptable level of silence. The tourist information center will provide you with a map on the places of attraction there. You can even wear Hanbok dress, learn to make Kimchi there.

 For lunch, we ate at this Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup that costs 45,000 won for a 3 person set. The Ginseng soup and fry chicken were excellent.

We were all stuffed  with energy to continue walking. We  walked and stop by for some snacks before heading to our last stop View 8: Samcheong-dong stone stairway and exit towards samcheong-dong road that was famous for the cafes.

As we were in a hurry, we had to compromise on the cafes there and head towards the train station.

Since we book our Nanta show (a comedy, musical cooking performance) at Myeong Dong, we headed there and collected our pre-book tickets.  The Nanta show was engaging, fun and entertaining. The performers were really talented.

Since it is late afternoon, there were plenty of stalls below selling food. Food was amazing.

The Korean Mandu

 Jajang Mian

 Korean pancake

Topokki (Korean rice cake)

As the night is still young we went to Dongdaemun area to look at clothing, DDP plaza's night view.

There were plenty of live night performance there to entertain tourist.

 Most of the plaza's allow tourist to bargain but nothing caught my attention. We went for Lotte mart shopping to grab our souvenirs. I really like the tax reduction via counter for tourist who shopped at Lotte Mart. We overbought stuff and my terrible skills of organizing groceries cost us the price of 2 big carrying bag. Hence, my improvement project of the year: improve organizing groceries skills in grocery bag.  That was tiring and back to rest.