In this post, we continue on from our journey from Cheongdo to Busan where I would stay for about 4 nights. First day of Busan I had initially planned Gamcheong Cultural Village, Busan Racecourse Track, BIFF square, Gukje Market, Bupyeong Market. But things doesn’t happen as it goes, so read on!
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Here is the first part of my 14 days solo travel to South Korea in late March to April 2018 – gonna start with exploring Daegu! Daegu is quite a very laid-back city, and you may wonder what are the things to do in Daegu? I had only a short stay of 1.5 days and was basing here basically to get use to my solo-ness part of the trip and getting familiar around with the all-things-korean and transportation mode and stuff. Can’t help including a thrilling paragliding (first!) experience as well!
The idea of solo travel had been playing in my mind for that last quarter of 2017 – my 2018 goal waiting to be accomplished.
After an impromptu chat with Audrey, whom had similar idea to try a solo trip, we concur – masquerade a solo trip as a trip-with-friends in order to ease our Asian parents unstoppable-worrying-guts: we shall fly together, then craft our solo itinerary and go on our separate ways once we were there. We could perhaps meet up for a little gatherings, but ultimately, keep true to the solo-ness. All at the same time, have someone we could reach out to in any case of any difficulties! An awesome, sneaky, baby-step solo trip plan! And we planned for – Korea
With that, I booked myself on Korean Air to Korea in late March – the end of Winter and a new break into Spring season. Cherry blossom period, anybody?!
In the end, this was a truly solo trip, all by myself – I confessed to my mom about this, ending up in much tears and sweat of nearly killing off the “solo” part of the trip – but I pushed for this to be accomplished, yes!
So, heres a brief write up on the 14 days of travel – “Where did I go?”
First leg of the trip was south-bounds, a short run from Daegu, to Cheongdo. Many new experiences for me – paragliding, finding lunch places, first hanok home-stay!
Second part of the trip dwell on longer on the southern region, Busan, Gwangju, and Jeonju.
And of course, the last run which you can’t miss, the vibrant, colorful city – Seoul! This city, gives off a very, very youthful vibe – especially with the aplenty of street performances at Hongdae at night!
Having it written so briefly and tons of memories flooding back – it has been a month and longer since I had returned, and I am craving to return Korea real soon! Next year!?
I shall end abruptly here, stay tune for the lengthy trip reports!
In my recent solo trip to Korea, a 14-day itinerary, my hunt for a budget data SIM card, and optionally with voice calls, revealed pricing that way exceeded my ideal budget. For a Korean SIM card: $56 for 15-days for unlimited data and voice calls, or otherwise a $77 for a 30-day unlimited SIM card?!
My budget was only $15-25 and I perhaps required roughly 2 GB of data for the 14 days, mainly for navigating around on map application, and googling on-the-go. So here, I would like to recommend something else (not only limited to travelling to South Korea)
