Busan

Well, I went to Busan this weekend. The trip was short, but we did a lot of things for the time we had. We left yesterday morning to go on the KTX. The KTX (Korea Train Express) is a really fast train that goes across the country of South Korea. The train can go 350 km/h, but only goes just above 300 km/h.

It was a nice ride, and really relaxing. It's funny that you can travel through a whole country in 3 hours!

Busan is on the southeast coast of Korea, and it's the closest city to Japan. It's a beach city which is kind of like the Florida of Korea I suppose. The water is joined to the Pacific Ocean, but it's not actually part of it. The name of the water there is the Korea Strait, but it's salt water because it's attached to the Ocean.

Well, we got there, checked into our hotels and quickly went back out to enjoy the day. We walked along the beach for a while. It was really nice to smell the fresh air and the water. There were SO many foreigners there. There were more foreigners than Koreans there, it didn't feel like we were in Korea.

After the walk on the beach (which was most relaxing), we walked up and down this market area. It was full of fish and weird things. One tank had these tubes that were swimming around and didn't have eyes or anything. Apparently they're huge earth worms that are edible. I barely got close enough to take a good picture!

After that, we caught the subway to Busan station and hopped on a 'city night tour' bus. It had some great views - especially of this bridge which is something like 7.5 kilometres long and has 2 levels. It lights up at night and it looks pretty nice. I will post some pictures of it when I get the chance to steal the pictures from Lindsay's camera (I left mine in the hotel by accident).

After the night tour bus, we went back out. We walked along the beach, and saw a bar filled with foreigners, so we went. I wished to have a beer, so I asked for a menu. My heart seemed to stop a little when I looked at the prices - 10,000 won for a beer! It's usually somewhere around 2,000 or 3,000. Anyway, we promptly left that establishment.

We found a casino, so we went there for a little bit. It was wierd, because gambling is illegal in Korea for Koreans, but not for people who aren't from Korea. We had to show our Alien Registration Cards (like I.D. for us because we don't have licences or anything). We didn't win anything, but it was fun while we were there. I haven't been to a casino for a while.

Today, we had a short time in Busan because we had to catch our train home. We had lunch at a nice Chinese restaurant over looking the beach, and started to head back to our subway station. We had a quiet ride back to Seoul during which most of us (I think all of us) slept.

All in all, it was a nice relaxing trip, but I wish I had more time there! I forgot how much I liked walking on the beach.

Alright, I will go now, I bought "Twilight" today. Steph read the series a while back and said they were good, and I think my sister also read them (or saw the movies) and said they were good also.

Anyway, I'm going to read! That's my update!