Korea
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I'm back from Korea, having spent 5 days there. It was still quite cold, given that it's already end of March. So, coming from a tropical climate, many of us are not quite used to the cold. But still, it's nice to be in cold weather once in a while :)

It was quite a good trip, no complaints except for things that I do not wish to mention. The tour guide was good, a very experienced one and really know how to crack jokes and make people happy. The food, hmm...not the best, and ever since I'm back, I'm trying to avoid meat! :P hahhaha...almost every meal was pork, pork and more pork!! Scary...hahahha

Nice scenery, oh, and at tourist attractions, I'm surprised that quite a lot of Koreans can speak Mandarin!...heee..we were at the DFS and my mum wanted to buy some skincare products, wow, i'm impressed, this korean lady speaks fluent mandarin!!It's funny how now Chinese is becoming the most commonly used languages around the world.

Some pictures of the places we went:

This is the shooting site of 大长今. Quite an impressive shooting site.

Korea food. One big pan and cooking in it. Then we'll just take from there and eat. This was supposed to be for 4 people. After the meat and vegetable were cooked and half eaten, the store people then come and put rice for you...then will fry it like fried rice.

Nami island. This is the island where one of the scenes of winter sonata was shot. There were 2 rows of trees that was in the drama. And according to the tour guide, this island was made prosper because of that drama.

A mountain top. Supposed to be quite scenic, but that day was foggy so couldn't really see anything. There was some left over snow though... :P

My mum and I on the same mountain top.

Korea is still very much a buddhist country. So we went to visit this big buddha status. It was at the bottom of the mountain.

Spring water! Although most of them said it tasted different, I couldn't really tell :P hahaha

Learned to make KimChi at the school. I think we didnt actually "learn". It's more of trying to sell the kimchi that were made at the school. The instructor conducted the whole tour in Mandarin. Very good. :)

ok, that's so much for the pictures. Anyone interested in seeing all the pictures can go to teresetay.shutterfly.com