Diary of an Internet Addict

Itinerary

1. Explore Nami Island
2. The Garden of Morning Calm

1) Nami Island

We drove out of Seoul for Day 3. Already, the night before, heavy clouds were already in the skies, threatening of what would be to come, a stark contrast to the sunny blue sky in the afternoon of Day 2. I was nervous that our plans would be severely affected by the weather.

Lotte Tower, enroute to Gapyeongu, where Nami Island is located. We also passed by Mt. Achasan, where GrubbyTae was born.

We were headed to Nami Island, a river island popular with tourists for many a K-drama location.

It being an island, you’ve got to cross a body of water to get to it. Like…ziplining. We took the less adventurous way of taking the ferry.

Check out that zip-line.

There were quite a number of things I wanted to do on the island but it started raining as we landed there, so here’s a picture of an ostrich instead.

Anyway, once you land on the island, you’ll be greeted by the entrance with various welcome messages in many languages.

The island also has the cutest snowman mascots, located right at the front of the dock when you get off the ferry.

Nami Island has really good picturesque spots, so do check those out as well! These actually change per season, so you’ll get a different emotion with each season.

We spent about 2-3 hours there – which is not enough. We didn’t reach Petit France before noon, which was kind of sad. But oh well.

Though we had afternoon tea of sorts, by noon, we were absolutely starved! We headed back to the mainland by 1 or 2 pm, and ate our lunch, dakgalbi, at a place called Namiok. I couldn’t do without bread, so I had naan as well.

Both dishes were ok, but I love the fishcake! Yummy.

These are the said fishcake I think!

2) Garden of Morning Calm

After lunch, we went to the Garden of Morning Calm, which was in Gapyeong as well. It started raining again. We went around with umbrella but it was pretty hard to tuck the umbrella under the neck and still take photos with my non-waterproof over expensive camera ^_^;

Fortunately, it lightened to a drizzle, maybe about 15-20 min in and stopped, somewhat.

Post-rain, the peaks of the hills (or mountains, I’m unsure which) were shrouded by fine mist, giving the scenery a sort of mystical look.

I don’t know much about seasonal flowers (being from a tropical climate where it’s pretty much the same temperature – hot.), but despite it being end of summer, many flowers were still in bloom. Perhaps, a visit in spring would be even better.

I can’t recall how long we were at the garden – but it’s a vast ground, and I’d say it may even take the whole day. Dare I compare Singapore’s Botanic Gardens to it? Perhaps I’ll do a piece on that, one day.