Day 75 - 1st day in Busan

Woke up at 3330am as we had to leave at 4am to catch our train to Busan at 5am... we left house at 415am and managed to catch a cab to Seoul station... It was really too early in the morning and I was really very tired from the headaches and sleepless nights.... we reached Seoul Station early and some of them did manage to grab some breakfast before boarding the train...

  

Train ride was about 3 hours long... we reach Busan station at about 8am in the morning.... as we were all hungry, we head to the famous Busan Pork and Rice Soup.... it was really worth a try.... I did manage to finish the whole bowl of soup...

After which we decided to head back to the hotel first as not all the shop are open yet... at the station we decided to get the unlimited rides pass for a single day which cost about 5k won... this is how the pass looks like...

Apparently it's just looks like a piece of paper that you can loose it easily.... we took the subway and went to out hotel, Busan Central Hotel.... the hotel wasn't that clean... since it's a cheap hotel, we can't expect that much... but it's okay to stay for a few nights, the rooms here only has the traditional key system... so we had to carry the big bulk of key along everywhere we go... 

  

After settling down, our first stop was to Haedong Yonggungsa Temple (해동 용궁사), this temple was along the shore line and it was really beautiful, we got lost here and there along the way though.... there were a lot of street food along the entrance to the temple and the scenery up there was just amazing....

    

We met some of our friends there sitting along the rocks... after visiting the temple, we went to some observatory that was just some distance away, there were some museum about some fishes that was extinct, some were placed in the bottles.... we were quite disgusted by it jut by looking at it....

After that we had to take a long walk back down to reach the Busan Outlet Mall... there were a lot of brands there including Adidas, Nike, Puma etc... went to most of the store.... 

As it was raining then... we decided to go to the Shinsegae Centum City (신세계 센텀시티), it was a really big mall... there's a sauna inside too... but we didn't went for it as it was a little bit on the pricey end.... we met up with some of our friends who was already there and had dinner  together at the Food Mall... basically everything there was just pricey... I ordered the Bulgogi with octopus soup which was about 8k

After dinner, we went to tour around the mall a little while before we head to the Seomyeon 서면 underground shopping center... it was quite a long stretch but the price was slightly cheaper for certain shops while the rest were more pricey.... we shopped for a little while before we head back to our hotel and call it a day.... I did had some problems with one day unlimited ride pass, one of my friend also had the same problem.... however there was a officer there that saw it and offered to buy a new pass for me, I do not need to make my way to the office to report about the pass though... saves me the trouble of doing that... When we reach the station to our apartment, Yeonsan 연산 station, we decided to have some beer to celebrate one of our friend return from her long trip to Japan... haha... we ended the night with some fun and laughter...

Headache was here and there during the whole journey.... hopefully it gets better soon...