My Trip to Korea 2018 : Herbnara Farm

Date : 20th March 2018 (Tuesday)

SECOND DAY at KOREA

- The door was closed; not operating due to reason/s relating with the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
which was happened at Pyeongchang region.

- We were in shivering cold, wanted to go toilet.

- Stopped by a convenience store to borrow their toilet. As gratitude, we bought a few packets of keropok from the shop.

Date : 21st March 2018 (Wednesday)

THIRD DAY at KOREA

The Korea tour leader told the whole trip member that we will be back again there and hopefully it's open. Actually, we're not really into this place anymore since the journey may takes more than one hour to reach there. But before the trip, I was convinced that this location will gonna be my shopping place by watching videos.

We went inside "The Gift Shop", to use the toilet. We were looking at things inside the shop, but the owner (who can speak English) asked us to wander around the farm first. After that, come back the shop and she will try to assist us. What a friendly shop owner.

But maybe it's just me who have problem in listening their Eng-rean (usage of English words with Korean tone). I feel sorry for not really able to understand their English. I tried, but I could just nod at things they said. But I feel successful on myself for being able to answer the "Where are you from?" question.

Wow! Everything at here seems so beautiful. But also the same, we only have one-hour to roam around. Looks like we have to increase our walking speed. I am not going to spend more time on taking photos specifically. The main aim of mine is to complete the race.

見て ください。。。Look at what I saw... YESH~ MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE thing (?)

P/s: I touched it, and I don't know and I forgot if it's real or fake.

¿ NATURAL or ARTIFICIAL ?

Not to forget, a trip will never complete without them...

Yes, the babies. 🐕🐘🐘🐻🐻🐻🐕

[ Just find out that I can insert emoji icons inside the "insert special characters" ]

Going inside the Herbnara Garden Shop, ...

... going outside the Herbnara Garden Shop...

... and there are even more beautiful things to explore.

I picked up conifer cone, or more commonly to be said: pine cone; and dried leaves at here as memorabilia, because I am in love with nature. Hahahah~

Until here, we really dispersed our way. Me and my mum had walked to the most end of Herbnara Farm, while Dad and Akak went to the Herbnara Museum. [Ofc lahh jealous, tak dapat masuk museum diorang kann~ Terasa macam left out feeling. Huhuh...]

* You can watch Akak's vlogging a video of Herbnara Farm here.

P/s : I wish I can still edit video using Wondershare Filmora without watermark again... π🛆π

These photos are what we (me & mum) managed to explore throughout the loss of chance visiting the museum...

Forgot to mention, after finish roaming around the farm... we quickly run back to "The Gift Shop" for shopping time. There are so many things to look, and buy.

Lack of time would be the reason, and mostly everyone were waiting for us inside the bus. Quickly select items to be purchased. Quickly pay our purchased items and going up the bus to the next destination.

* I will enclose photos of my memorabilia and purchased items on next posts soonest. *

* Be sure to keep yourself (and myself) updated for follow-up my recent activities. *

My Trip to Korea 2018 : Hanwha Resort Seorak Sorano

Date of Stay : 19th - 21st March 2018 (Monday-Wednesday)

We stayed at Hanwha Resort Seorak Sorano for 3D2N. It's located at Gangwon Province, a mountainous, forested province in northeast South Korea.

Here we are... reaching the destination for our stay place.

Excited to take photos after having butt-pain taking long rides inside bus...

On Tuesday after eating our dinner, we were sent early back to the hotel (because Herb Island wasn't open on that day. So, things get early and ready-ing ourselves for our upcoming journeys).

Finally, it's time for us to appreciate and to observe the beauty の exterior resort building we stayed.

[ The next two photos are directly opposite to the main entrance. ]

We were given 2 rooms, both with double bed. The rooms are almost identical [Of course lahh, what am I talking?] So this is so-called, my room tour at Hanwha Resort Seorak Sorano.

The do-anything place. We eat supper here.

Maggi cups, instant porridge, ice creams, Castella cheese cake, homemade sandwiches are all eaten here since most of the time we're not at the room.

The typical bed place.

We actually didn't sleep at this bed, because there was no fan or aircond.

Not to say it's hot or we didn't make used to it, but the Korea tour guide told us that to ventilate the room, you gotta open a little gap of the door with net (the mosquito net?) to let air comes in.

But the air was too chilly, since it's windy days.

As usual, the TV was in front the bed.

You can watch TV programs from local news, products advertisements to local Korean-drama throughout the day till night.

Toilet. Or in Korean: 화장실

The toilet bowl has special features that rarely to be seen in Malaysia : 

⇢ Rinse + Dry your ass.

⇢ Turn the bowl seat to warm temperature.

#mesakai

The telephone has morning call, which almost acts as an alarm clock.

The Korea tour guide did request the staffs to make the call early at 6:00am for preparing ourselves to take breakfast.

Another special feature explored.

We slept at almost-to-say a store room with ondol feature on our stay.

Ondol in Korean traditional architecture, is underfloor heating that uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to heat the underside of a thick masonry floor.

On Tuesday after dinner, we almost have no chance to jalan-jalan inside the resort. We went back to the hotel room and put down our things. 

My mum said : She's tired already, lazy to go out and walk. Need to pack things before switching to another hotel room tomorrow. We need to sleep early because we had insufficient of sleep... Throwing tantrum on not achieve something is my thing. [Travel experiences especially, throwback the times we went to Kuching, Sarawak... I insisted and win everyone's hearts to take a boat and cross over the river to enter Fort Margherita. 难得来到这里又懒惰去散步做么？]

Our journey exploring the resort keeps running...

We bought the blue and red boxes.

It's soft, sweet and delicious. I'm in love with it.

There are wide-variety choices of flavours in the two boxes.

Pandan, chocolate, red-bean... It makes me feel hungry (the sikit-sikit type of hungry) while drafting this post to let me taking a break for supper time.

The second day of drafting....

This is the place we had our two times of breakfast buffet.

I LOVE BREAKFAST BUFFET !!!

It's like you have no limit restriction of food intake.

You can eat all you might, as long your tummy can fit in.

We discovered a room called : Atelier 閑  at lobby floor.

Totally got no idea what's the room since we don't even understand the two big words showed on the entrance. 

There is not even a person who takes care of the place, so we just enter the room to find answer for our curiosity souls.

New words of the day : Just make my research after months of leaving Korea already HAHAH~

Atelier : An atelier (French: [atəlje]) is the private workshop or studio of a professional artist in the fine or decorative arts, where a principal master and a number of assistants, students, and apprentices can work together producing pieces of fine art or visual art released under the master's name or supervision.

閑 ：to stay idle • to be unoccupied • not busy • leisure • enclosure  [ Typing out this word takes a big effort though~ ]

Something I can relate as for now... quite interesting...

Not to forget, ambil gambar lahhh~ What some more can do during the holidays?

*wink*

Random thought

I somehow wish I could become a freelance model. You just need to get ready yourself to be captured, equip yourself with photogenic skills in front the camera, and BAM ! You got your pay for it. Easy, no stress. [I think so... Harsh reality I don't want to think...] 

 

Dad taking photo behind the ever-changing patterns on the large white screen.

After playing for so long with the fancy screen, we just realised that on top the white screen, there's a device which detects our face and it will display on the white screen. The device also follows our body movements to see swivel irregular shapes shown on the screen. Something new to explore. Thankfully, there's no one enter the room during our visit. We RULED THE ROOM!

Directly turned into 20-30 years younger than they're after happily playing with something technology.

Going out the room and explore the hidden sides of resort before going back to hotel room...

Went to CU Later Family Mart / CVS for You, a convenience store inside the resort to buy some eateries and... drinkies... //index fingers pointing each other.

Along our way, we found Pororo inside the convenience store...

...and another Pororo sitting near to the game rooms.

There're even karaoke rooms... 

[ Okay, I don't know how to end my blogpost... So yeah, this is my ending. ]