Day 3 in Seoul

We woke up and had a lazy start to the morning as we didn't have anything planned. It was about 9:30 (July 1st, 2019) by the time we left for breakfast. On our way, we passed through a market that was by our AirBnB that had lots of fish and dried fruit. We eventually arrived at the place we tried to go yesterday called Tous Les Jours. It was quite delicious and we were very impressed.

 

 

 

 

After breakfast we headed to another market near Cheonggyecheon creek. We walked around the creek and then entered the market. This one had a lot of textiles. We eventually came across the food section which was extensive. We didn't buy anything, but saw some very interesting foods like live octopi.

Lots of fabric for sale and people sewing things

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After this market, we headed in the direction of the place we wanted to eat lunch. Along the way was another market, this time focused on clothing. The market was also in the open street instead of inside buildings. For lunch we went to a Korean BBQ place that Cody found. It was pretty good. Instead of us cooking our food, it was prepared in their kitchen and brought to us. Hunter and I had the beef lunch special and Cody had the pork ribs special.

After lunch, we went and walked around the market a little more. We then went and got drinks at this tea place Cody suggested. Hunter and I shared a mango smoothie. We took our drinks back to the creek and sat down enjoying the day.

 

The clothes with English were often quite funny because the translations didn't work correctly all the time

 

Night Heron

After spending some time resting, we headed toward the N Seoul Tower. It was quite the hike to get to the tram that would bring us to the top. We climbed up some steep streets but finally made it. We bought roundtrip tickets and headed to the top. At the top there was some shopping and food places, as well as some awesome viewing areas. We arrived about 3 hours before sunset, which might have been a little two long, but it was nice nonetheless. We didn't end up going into the tower to the top as we were happy with the views from the mountain. 

It was surprising to see Ottawa on this sign at the top of the mountain!

 

A cat hunting birds

We could see our AirBnB from the mountain. Its the two gray buildings in the upper level of the circle. We were on the 9th floor.

After capturing really nice sunset photos, we headed back down to the bottom of the mountain. We were all really hungry and we wanted to go to Gangdam, so we found a really cool burger diner in the area - Brooklyn The Burger Joint. It turned out to have super amazing delicious burgers. Hunter and I shared fries and a shake. 

Asian countries don't normally eat burgers and if they do, they use utensils. It was funny to see this diner showing the "American" way.

After dinner, we were all exhausted because we didn't take our usual afternoon nap. Hunter and I packed up our things as we were leaving tomorrow and needed to get up very early.

Date: July 1st, 2019