Tourist Information Booth:
Nav and I felt at home at this place. We basically got information to the city and to the entire country in English. I was able to snag couple of brochures with popular attractions in Busan and other touristy activities to do throughout the city in the next 10 months or so.
This particular fish market is the largest in South Korea and home to thousands of fish and sea food. Nav and I walked around for an hour before we bumped into foreigners who have been here in Busan for only 3 weeks! Younger than us by 2 whole weeks! It’s always nice to meet people who are curious, adventurous, and have a tourist-minded approach to the city like us.
We only spent maybe an hour or so of browsing around shops but we certainly have to go again because we only covered approximately 10% of the entire area. I did manage to get 5 pairs of socks! Ankle socks are popular here and very efficient for the type of weather the city gets. Each pair of socks were 1000 wons (less than a CDN dollar because the CDN currency is quite strong these days). My favourite is obviously the one in the centre – Angry Birds! Although the red bird is quite useless in the game compared to the others however since it is red I must own it. Nampo-Dong will certainly be a place I will shop for small Christmas gifts (especially those who showed up to my 5th Annual Sports Event).
The view was marvellous but we honestly need to invest in a proper camera. The images did not show the true beauty of the sceneries and obviously my iPhone does not have flash so it was quite difficult to take proper pictures during the night. I still haven’t owned a camera in my life so I will probably try and buy one before the start of the summer vacation for the public school English teachers (which is in another two weeks). Nav and I will certainly come back to this tower during the day and when we own a good camera.
Around 9:30pm, we decided to head towards KSU to roam around this region of the city, and to meet up with our friend Chris. I bought a baseball cap for the first time since I was in elementary school (maybe grade 3) when I owned a Minnesota Twins cap. Anyways, Chris, Nav and I witnessed couple of bands perform but we were too occupied with our darts challenge, and meeting new people from the city and the country. Afterwards we grabbed some shawarmas for a late night dinner! I got two chicken shawarmas for 7,000 wons! It was filling, delicious, and it reminded me of the real spicy food that I enjoyed so much when I was an undergraduate student at York University.
I got home pretty late and I went to sleep right away because I knew there were more tourist attractions to enjoy tomorrow as well. Sunday started early for me because I woke up at 10:45am and got ready so that I can go visit Nav’s area which is an hour away by bus and subway combined. I finally arrived at Nav’s place around 1pm and we had brunch at a restaurant that specialized in chicken dishes.
Mt. Jangsan:
Around 3pm, Nav and I decided to take the challenge of hiking up this mountain that is estimated to be around 637 metres above the sea level. The weather was fabulous, and the timing of the hike was great too. Unfortunately there was a minor accident which caused us to turn back around near the waterfall area of the mountain. The waterfall was not big or pretty and you can be the judge of it when you look at the photos. San in Korean means “mountain” so Busan is actually a reference to Bu Mountain. Busan is after all filled with many mountains and huge hills so it is understandable why the city is called what it is.
Due to the accident, Nav and I headed earlier to the beach than we originally anticipated. However, the timing was great because the sun was not beating down on the sand and the breeze from the ocean was cooling after a long day of walking. We were able to take pictures of the sceneries from various elevations and of random things we saw. We will come back and try the speed boat experience for 20,000 wons and the Banana Boat ride for 15,000 wons. We were a bit late because the beaches here close at 6:30pm and we arrived around 7pm. Oh well, it gives us another reason to come back to this quiet beach.
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