My Solitaire Wedding

TRIP DATE: 20 APRIL 2017 Day 9: Shopping and  head to Juno hair salon at Ewha Womans University Station Breakfast/lunch/dinner at Lotte shopping supermarket To Do: Juno Hair Salon Ewha Womans Univ. 7 Road 30, 3rd Floor, Junho-hae-dong Univ. 2, Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-gu Seoul Always wanted to try doing my hair overseas and with korean salons locally charging a premium i thought it would be better for me to try out a authentic korean salon instead.  Service is great with lots of attention from the main hair styllst. The hair stylist will have a specific work station to work on and for general things like hair steaming or perming you will be brought to a designated area to do it. I like that they have a central area where friends can enjoy tit bits and talk to each other while the hair stylist tends to you. Prices menu is also very clear and standard.  The hair stylist also did not push for sales and at the end of the session i was given a discount car...

TRIP DATE: 19 APRIL 2017 Day 8: Seoraksan Breakfast at Seoraksan, late lunch at Lotteria, Dinner at Palsaik Korean BBQ To Do: Seoraksan National Park Seoraksan-ro, Sokcho-si, Gangwon-do, South Korea The plan is to arrive early get on the cable car and then take a hike on the Biseondae trail. Weather looks great and sunny. But the cables car doors are shuttered when we reached.  Guess what, cable car is not opened due to strong winds expected for today.  So we started with the Biseondae trail instead. It is a relatively mild walk to the river valley. Just that the last bit is not so gentle and there are a bit of stairs to climb but its still an easy walk.  Its the next bit climbing up the Geumganggul that is a real killer. The steps are really steep for a 800 m walk up it took us about an hour one way.  For the effort, we are rewarded with really stunning views of the valley and from afar the weird shar...

TRIP DATE: 18 APRIL 2017 Day 7:  Do nothing day, sleep late and slowly travel to Sokcho Breakfast at Hobong at Myeong Dong, Lunch at random lunch place near bus station at Sokcho, Dinner at Kensington Hotel Sokcho: Kensington Stars Hotel To Do: The day's plan was to visit Gangchon rail park. This is rail biking trail and its located outside of seoul. The travelling time is expected to be 3 hours and from there to head to Seoraksan from there.  I was pretty concerned because it isn't the easiest place to navigate from a countryside to Seoraksan. Most of the blogs i read head out from Seoul to Seoraksan. But we are so tired from last night late arrival from busan and woke up late. The weather is expected to be stormy for the day. Luckily we didn't persist. It was raining from late morning and by late afternoon it is pouring.  To Eat: Hobong at Myeong Deong - 3 stars, budget 13 Myeongdong 9-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea Since we have tried unsuccessfu...