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I have a soft touch for
tomato juice
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Looking for free wifi,
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As I was writing day 16 on the note, I realized my trip in Korea was going to end soon and I already started to miss the country!
Had a hangover and woke up around 7 plus with
the lights on!! After my shower last
night, I was resting on the bed and dozed off instead. Set my alarm at 8 and continued my dream.
Woke up still spinning, I decided to rest until 9 to catch the 10:30am bus to
Daejeon.
Reached the bus terminal with 10min to spare and
suddenly had the big urge. My problem
came to haunt me again and left my phone inside the toilet! When I came out from the cubicle, a guy went
in immediately. And when I returned to
the toilet, it was a different guy who came out from the cubicle! But really thankful and blessed that my phone
was not taken away!
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Welcome to Geumsan!
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| Ginseng Ginseng! |
It started to snow again and got heavier when the
bus arrived. While seated, I was amazed
gazing at the snow falling on the window screen and melt slowly. Occasionally when the wind was strong, the
snow would be going literally side way. Reminded me of my Shikoku pilgrimage during
one of the day when I was daring with the heavy rain and heavy snow that
literally went side way hitting directly from the front! Oh, I love snow!!
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| More Ginseng! |
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| Still a lot more Ginseng! |
It was a very nice spacious bus. There was supposed to be allocated seat, but I
decided to stay put until someone complain. Yet one thing I didn't quite like was the heat
again. It was always very warm and
stuffy inside the bus!!
After a while, the faulty seat kept sliding backwards
and really pushing me to the limit. Glad
I managed to switch to the seat behind caused I could feel the wind outside and
made the trip more comfortable.
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| And even more ginseng! |
We stopped at 12pm for a 20 minutes break. When I went into the toilet, I was shocked to
find a section where anyone who likes dog can come to play with them. I never thought someone would be weirder than
me to think of such idea.
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"I'm a ginseng in a bottle
baby...."
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Time really flies! Nowadays, a 2 hours plus
journey seemed short. I was about to
reach Daejeon very soon. Coincidentally,
I probably had visited been to all the cities with a World Cup Football stadium
in Korea!! This one at Daejeon was really
nice, just next to the tollgate.
At the bus terminal, I need to switch to a local
bus. It was great that there were buses
to
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| Welcome to Korean Spa! |
Geumsan every 10 minutes. This should
be a famous place I guessed, as I was guided with many signs all the way to the
platform where I should board the bus. At 2:05pm, the bus departed with only 2
passengers.
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| Drinking cup.. |
Daejeon was sunny when I arrived, but it started
snowing again now. More passengers
boarded at a different station where we stopped for 5min. After an hour ride, we reached the town and
immediately, I could smell ginseng!! Exactly
like Rotorua in New Zealand where I could smell Sulphur!
Following the direction
in the book, I came to the Ginseng Market in a short while. It was very easy to locate and only a short
distance walk away. I looked around the
market for a while and before finding my accommodation which was a 24 hours Korean
style spa. After a little struggle, I
finally saw the signboard but just somehow could not find the entrance. Later, I realized I was on the wrong lift. The entrance was not exactly very close to the
signboard. In the end, I have to make a turn
and back to where I crossed the bridge.
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My so-so Ginseng Chicken
lunch! |
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| The menu at the Ginseng restaurant! |
After the lodging was settled, I could hang
around at ease now. First of all was to satisfy
my appetite! Hopped into a restaurant
with an English menu for the first time!! I ordered the ginseng chicken which I supposed
should be something that could not go wrong in a Ginseng city! For a whole chicken, W10000 was actually
pretty reasonable. However, the taste
was really so-so. The first meal in Korea that was not “wow” for me!! =]
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| Piles of head pillows! |
After that, I shopped around for some ginsengs
for my parents since it's so famous here.
The town was small and nothing was left to check
out after just close to 5pm! Didn’t want
to go to the spa so soon, I was looking to spend a little time in a coffee shop
with wifi access. In the end, nothing was
found and I ended up in the spa using the wifi there.
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The local eggs which took
me some effort to finish cause
it comes in three! |
The place looked sluggish but the interior was
clean and nice. Although not big, there
were small hot rooms and cold rooms. There
was even a karaoke room and plenty of food on sales. I tried one of their local eggs which was
rather not my taste because it was cold.
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Future Korean pop stars!
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It seems like going to spa
is a family outing here. I met several families
inside with kids as small as 2 years old!! =]
There were a few cute little kids curious about
my laptop. Especially the one who kept
drooling his saliva around!! I wanted so much to take their pictures but
worried the parents would not feel comfortable. The parents knew how to fold the towel into
nice little cap with two bun on the side for the kid.
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Individual cubicle..
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Resting area...
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Rows of individual cubicles
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Inside one of the hot room..
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The Ginseng town!
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