Monday, 7 January 2013

Seoul 2012 Seoul N Tower-CheonGyeCheon

We went to Seoul N Tower on day 4 evening after our dinner in Chungmuro. We took yellow bus no.2 to get to Seoul tower from Exit 2 of Chungmuro station. After that we have to walk up a pretty steep slope from the drop down point to get to Seoul tower.Another option to N Seoul tower is by cable car. It a little bit complicated compared to taking bus but there have a complete tutorial to get there shown by official site.
Seoul N Tower
Opening hours: Open all years round
Address:서울특별시 용산구 남산공원길 105 (용산동2가)


The view of Seoul under Seoul Tower at 7pm

The tickets for tower observatory costs 18,000won. It was crowded with Korean couples, family and other tourist at the observatory that you can hardly get near to the glass to enjoy night view of Seoul. Personally I don't find the night view attractive. In the end we didn't spend much time on here. 


Once we get down from the observatory, we checked out the merchandise shop of Teddy bear Museum (which is no longer in Seoul N Tower now). 


We get down from N Tower around 8pm and decided to visit CheongGyeCheon in GwangHwaMun Station. 

CheongGyeChyeon 청계천
Address:서울특별시 중구 태평로1가 ~성동구 신답철교
How to Get there: GwangHwaMun Station Exit 8, walk straight and cross the road. The stream is at your left. 

The stream is 8.4km long and started from Gwanghwamun Station to the other end of it at Dong Dae Mun History and Culture Park Station. It is recommended to visit from Gwanghwamun station as special events and concerts are held close to here. Both side of the streams are decorated with art and along the stream there are bridge with different themes. CheongGyecheon, another dating spot for Koreans.(similar to Singapore Clarke Quay) TaecGui came to here for filming of WGM too!



Our plan is to walk along the stream and headed to Jongno 3-ga Station to get back to hostel. However we got lost AGAIN from our night walk. We followed the road sign for cars to get to the station and ended up in empty insadong where all the shop ended their business. Luckily we managed to ask for direction from a ahjussi that tease us he didn't understand our "Korean". Plus point is on our way lost we found a very nice street food! It's ain't bad to get lost actually since we can explore more from it and it's pretty fun to interact with Koreans when asking for direction. After walking the extra miles, we back to our hostel safety and ended our Day 4 in Seoul. 



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