Korea (9) - China Town

The China Town is ain't a small place. In order to be able to visit as many attractions as possible, we marked on the map and planned to route thoroughly. Planning is indeed very crucial.

There was this quite a interesting spot in China Town. It has one whole row of wall and what's on the wall is all the combat strategics used during the war between Three Kingdoms era.

I never bother to study history of China but I knew most of those war combat strategics. Mainly was because I played Three Kingdoms PC game(s). Knowledge can be from games too.

Full filled the ladies' desire to take as much photos as possible there. And we moved on to our next spot. And more photos...Basically everything would be about China Town for now. It is such a huge place.

The weather was getting so much hotter. We were like complaining how hot and how thirsty we are. To one extend we could no longer walk.Craving for ice-cream or... really cold drink.

And you know what. South Korea doesn't has much flat land. The way the roads constructed is like going uphill and going downhill. Imagine walking on the path/road such that.

How nice it is if there's a scooter and a super cold coke on hand.

Korea (8) - China Town

China Town here is unlike China Town in KL where it is selling pirated goods. It is clean, peaceful and more likely like a China Town.

However can still see much Koreans characters than Chinese characters. Chances to meet Chinese speaking Korean here is high. They can communicate in Chinese. They are mostly KBC, Korea born Chinese.

It is common to see dragon around in every China Town. Chinese people love dragon. #rOar..

ZH on the move. You just won't want to miss capturing anything here.

02.08.2011, early noon. Stomach needs to be filled in order to walk further. Again rather struggling what to eat. No worry. Eventually you'll know what to eat in the end.

Instead of eating something Korean-ish. We chose to eat something more Chinese-ish, the Zha Jiang Noodles. This dish originate from China. Way long time ago when Chinese came to Korea, they brought in this very dish.

We said grace n' started eating. Hallelujah, it taste superb!

Korea (7) - China Town

Our first destination for today, 02.08.2011 would be China Town. And places of interest around China Town. That would be covered slowly. While waiting for others to come down, had random shots in front of our hotel first.

Transportation is equally important to accommodation when one is traveling. The best mean of transportation would be the... train. I'd say MRT system in Singapore is advance and world class enough not until I saw South Korea's one.

Anyway. The nearest MRT station is only 5 minutes away from our hotel. That is like way way way convenient to us to get ourselves around the town.

That is it. The Baegun MRT Station. The nearest MRT station in China Town would be the Incheon Station which is the very last station. Not to mention our first experience purchasing MRT ticket. That was rather a headache.

We could not understand the language. We could not understand a single word. We could not understand a thing. Fortunate that it was the last station. Somehow we managed to do our ticket purchase in the end.

Boarded the train. Anticipating our next destination. We actually could notice many passengers were holding an umbrella in their hands. Weather in South Korea went haywire. Serious flooding reported in the news the week we were there. Weather forecast showed "raining" the whole week.

Oh well. There was no rain on 02.08.2011. Say Hallelujah? Hallelujah!

Ang again a random inside the train.

Finally we reached at the destination, Incheon Station and alighted.

And Hallelujah! Here we are, China Town! One thing. Why every China Town in this world has the similar entrance.. hmm. At least that one looks better than Malaysia's one. xD

China Town with little Chinese... =/

Korea (6)

I've walked way too far. Understood that it should be the time for me to walk back to my hotel and join back with the rest of the group.

Those are the last few scene I saw through my viewfinder during my walk back. Most probably there would no chance to come here anymore. No one knows.

Indeed it's a beautiful city.

I've returned to my hotel. Could see "Incheon Tourist Hotel" behind that uncle with his cigarette. Kinda sweating by then. And I only realized there's a church just next to our hotel.

Mentioning church, we could see church every where here. There are churches planted here and there not far apart from each other. It is said that Korea is one of the more revival country in the world now and having the largest congregation church in Asia currently.

Never had a chance to visit or experience the largest church here. Perhaps next time. 

Now the girls were ready. 2.8.2011 marked our first day of free and easy tour. And our first destination would be the China Town. 

 

Korea (5)

This is going to be post no.5 and yet it is still on the second day, 2.8.2011 morning on the street in Incheon, Korea.

The rest were still sleeping in hotel. Perhaps some have already waken up. Anyway, the weather was getting warmer and warmer by then. It's summer, by the way. 

At last I saw some English words there like ambulance, ear, nose, throat and clinic. Majority of them do not speak English. Big problem for us who can't speak Korean.

Surprising minority speaks Chinese especially at those tourist hot spots.

Korea (4)

Basically nothing much in this post. More like a photo blog for this. It is still 02.08.2011 (Tuesday). Continuing from the previous post, as I walked further down the street... alone.

These were what I see through my viewfinder.

Incheon could be a rather old city by judging at the wiring at the pole. I don't get to see this in the modernize city like KL or Singapore. 

 I can hardly find a public phone booth in KL or Singapore. I thought it has extincted already?

I don't know why there were so many flags around. Anyway. I was still walking all the way down the street. Very interesting to find so many different things to see around.

Notice one thing not? The street has so little people. I was expecting to see busy street with people carrying their bags rushing for work. Or sexy Korean office ladies. No. 

All  I could see were mostly old folks. I felt myself like a ah pek too...