August 16, 2010
8:00 PM
Korea Day 6, Sun Aug 15 2010
The last day didn't consist of much. Went to Gangnam to buy one more album for someone. Then took the train to Dongdaemun. As I said the day before, I was going to finish walking the length of Cheonggyecheon. Seems like I was in for more than I could take.
Wiki said the stream was about 6km long. What it didn't say was that the 6km consisted only of two 'official' walking courses. After those two courses... there's still more! Approximately 4.3km more, before the stream merges with another to form a bigger stream. I walked... walked... walked... it didn't seem to end at all. I think I was walking for around 3 hours or so.. reached the stream at around 11am (I'm guessing from the sunlight at the time), and ended at 2pm. I didn't even reach the end. Gave up eventually because the path just seemed to go on and on. Broke off from the path, and headed to the nearest train station, which was Majang. And somehow, that station was only 5 or so stops away from my hotel. Well, lucky at least, don't have to travel so long to get back.
Had a late lunch at a building next to my hotel. JK's Kitchen, the same place where I ate dinner the first night. The last time, I tried the sweet shrimp pizza, white style. Aka the usual kind. Yeah, they have a black kind of pizza too, and I don't think its the burnt kind. Anyway, since that was the last day, I decided to try it. Tasted even better than the white kind. It seemed to enrich the taste of the pizza. Always good to try different things, you could end up with something unusual. :)
After lunch, time to head to the airport. Mum and I took the airport bus, reached the airport in 45min. After waiting a few hours for the flight time, it was back to Singapore. Departed at 1945 Seoul time, arrived 0050 Singapore time.
Will post up the pictures when I get the time. Next week hopefully! Lots of interesting stuff.