Elysian Gangchon Ski Resort, South Korea

Hi Guys, How are you today? I hope you guys all in good condition, healthy and happy. For anyone who feels sad and sick, please be strong, hang in there, and it sure will be passed. Anyway, in this post I will tel you about my experience when I and my friends went to Ski Resort in South Korea. Elysian Ski resort is the nearest ski resort from Seoul, and we can reach it with Train. So If you plan to go to South Korea in Winter, I think Elysian Ski Resort is must visited place to enjoy the real winter with snow.

Elysian Ski Resort

Elysian Ski Resort is located just an hour away from Seoul and the only ski resort in Korea that can be reached by subway. From Seoul you can take the subway (Gyeongchun Line) or ITX-Cheongchun Train and Stop to Baegyangri Station. Baeyangri Station is 2 stop away from Gapyeong Station (if we want to go to Nami we will stop at this station). At Baeyangri Station , there is sguttle bus to go to the ski resorst, it’s free.

Waiting for our train, so freezing cold at that time

When I went to Elysian and arrived at Baeyangri, I experienced my first snow, so beautiful and feel magical. As someone who live in Indonesia, winter and snow is so special for me, i can not forget it. FYI, I visited this resort at 16 January. We rode the bus, the bus park around exit station, so after arrived at the station just walk outside anf you can find the bus park there.

We didn’t play ski here, but if you guys want to play ski here you can check their website here and check how to and how much to play ski here. We play sledding slope here, yes childish game right, but believe me it’s so fun and me want to play it again and again. You can check the price here .

First time can hold snow like this, like shaved ice

If you don’t want to play ski and also don’t want to sledding then you can just play snow. There is area that full of snow, even there is no snow falling they have snow making machine to make it, so at that area that is so much snow and feel free to playing and rolling in the snow. This area is separated from ski area and sledding area, so don’t be afraid someone will hit you while skiing or sledding, you are safe to play snow here.

Winter Wonderland

My first Snowman

I am so happy that day, too many first experience of my life here. First snow, first sledding, first snowman, first making snow angel, and many more. As people who lived in country that don’t have winter, this experience is so unforgettable experience for me, despite how cold that day, i still enjoy it very much.

By. Lil Sis

5 Places to enjoy Autumn in Seoul, South Korea

Hi Guys, kali ini based on my own experince Autumn in Korea,  Lil Sis mau share 5 tempat yang wajib dikunjungi untuk merasakan musim gugur di Seoul, Korea Selatan. Di Indonesia, kita tau kalo sepanjang tahun itu kita cuma bisa merasakan musin kering sama musim hujan, nggak ada tuh yang namanya autumn, dimana daun daun berubah dari hijau menjadi kuning kemudian perlahan lahan gugur. Jadi emang menurut Lil Sis, pernah merasakan musim gugur di Korea itu salah satu pengalaman yang nggak bisa dilupakan.

Ya sebenarnya ketika Autumn, di Seoul ini lagi jalan jalan di pinggir jalan kita bisa banget enjoy autumn vibe nya, karena mostly pohon pohon yang di pinggir jalan itu berubah jadi kuning or merah gitu dan banyak daun daun kuning yang berguguran di jalanan. Sepanjang jalan mendadak instagramable pokoknya.

Tapi di postingan saya kali ini, saya mau menonjolkan beberapa tempat wisata yang menurut saya cocok banget didatangin ketika musim gugur di Seoul. Anyway it’s based on my own experience ya jadi kalo ada yang tidak sependapat mohon maaf ya. So, check this out :

James Cheese Back Ribs – Myeongdong, South Korea

안녕하세요 (Annyeong Haseyo)

Kali ini Lil Sis akan cerita mengenai pengalaman Lil Sis makan di salah satu restoran di South Korea tepatnya itu di daerah Myeongdong, namanya “James Cheese Back Ribs”, sesuai namanya dia jual back ribs dan disajikan bersama cheesee (so informatif banget ya penjelasannya), and it’s pork ribs guys so it’s not halal.

Anyway, lokasinya nggak terlalu sulit buat dicari, cukup masukin aja James Cheese Back Ribs di gmaps gitu, dan ikutin aja arahan maps nya, sambil lihat kiri kanan, nanti akan ketemu seperti gambar di bawah ini, yang artinya kamu sudah sampai. tinggal masuk aja ke dalam

AUTUMN IN KOREA – DAY 13 (SEOUL) – Itaewon, Dongdaemun, Lantern Fest @Cheonggyeocheon

So, Finally I arrived at our last Day in Korea. This post will be aour last post about our daily activities in South Korea Autumn 2014. I finished this post after 2 years, not something to brag i think, but at least I finished it. Yeahhh. So actually, we have 14 days in Korea, but the 14th day is nothing compare the other days, We woke up early , went to airport, and went home, nothing special activity, So in my Blog, Day 13 will become the last day. I will talk about Day 14 in last paragraph, for the ending of my Autumn in Korea post.

So, In our last day, we feel little bit gloomy, our day in South Korea will be finished, and we will start our routine activities in Jakarta again. And our last day in South Korea is so damn cold, I think the temperature is down drastically compare than the other day, actually in the night, I nearly be ninja with all the armor I used. So, today Mr Damz still has ambition to see idol, so He went to brodcasting company this time. He woke up in the morning and went there, we plan to meet at Itaewon in the afternoon. And the girl, we decided to packing our luggage. We clean up our thing and packed in in our bag.

Our Lotte Mart shopping result

AUTUMN IN KOREA – DAY 12 (SEOUL) – Yongin Folk Village

Well, ini sudah hari ke 11 , dan sudah hampir habis liburan Lil Sis, Big Sis and the geng.  Tapi jangan bersedih, habis ini, Lil Sis akan cerita penglaman Lil Sis ke Korea (Again) but in the winter. Hahaha. untuk lebh lengkapnya ditunggu aja sambil berdoa biar Lil Sis punya waktu  dan nggak males buat nulis nulis. ^^ Loh kok, jadi Bahasa ya, back to English lagi ya.

So, Today we will go to Korean Folk Village at Yongin. Korean Folk Village introduces traditional culture from the late Joseon period to both local and international visitors through cultural experience, like farmer dance, martial art on horseback, traditional wedding ceremony, traditional Korean food, and traditional house. This place also known as the set of historical drama like Jewel in The Palace, Arng and the magistrate, and many more. So, many foreigner go there to see and experience Korea in Traditional ways. You can chek the detail here.

Before we go to Yongin, we eat our breakfast first. We went down to Ahjumma restaurant. And this is what we ordered,  we order vegie bibimbap and sundubu jigae. I will not express how it taste, but i still believe the best sundubu jigae I ever eat is here, in ahjumma  restaurant. And then the bibimbap also delicious because the vegie is season well. The worthy breakfast.

Bibimbap

AUTUMN IN KOREA – DAY 11 (SEOUL) – Everland

On our Daya 11th, we plan to go to Everland. Everland is South Korea’s largest theme park. It’s located  at the Everland Resort in Yongin, a city in Gyeonggi-do province, South Korea. Mostly  every one who go to South Korea, Everland is always in their bucket thing to do. Especially for adrenaline rush lover, T-Express is South Korea’s highest, fastest, longest, steepest roller coaster and it is a wooden coaster. It’s the main attraction in Everland. So, we want too try it so badly.

Everland Icon

AUTUMN IN KOREA – DAY 10 (SEOUL) – Hongdae, Namdaemun, Myeongdong , Hangang

Finally Day 10 is arrived, We planned to make that day became easy day. We had too much walk, our foot can not walk as many as before. Beside that, Miss pepz have a little bit fever. So, today become our lazy day, relaxed, enjoy our slowly walk that day, until our decision to go to Hangang Park destroyed our lazy day. Check our story here.

First, as always we started our day with eat breakfast at Ahjumma restauran, we ordered kimbap , ramyeon, pork donkatsu. The Kimbap is so delicious, it has spam, cheese , carrot, yellow radish pickle, green vegie, so delicious. Ramyeon also delicious, I forget what kind of ramyeon we ordered, but it filled with mandu and oden and it served with a yellow pot, really korean like. Donkatsu is delicious too, it served with rice, salad, and soup. So yummy. Every dish in Korean ahjumma is yummy. ^^

Kimbap (the best kimbap i ever tasted)

AUTUMN IN KOREA – DAY 9 (SEOUL) – Shinchon, Ewha Woman Univ, Myeongdong

Finally, my story arrived at Day 9 we were in South Korea. It’s still a fun holiday, but because of our struggle in Nami Island and Petite France, we were little bit  tired, so we decided to go to culinary mode today. We decided to go to Shinchon area, because we know there is All you Can Eat Restaurant there, from Shinchon we went to Ewha Woman University because of the buiding is so nice and we can find a shopping paradise there. After that we decided to go to Myeongdong, to see the famous Myeongdong and to find Myeondong Kyoja, the legendary mandu restaurant.

Ewha Women University

We woke up little bit late today, because our body is ache , especially the foot and because we want to “All You Can Eat” mode today, we didn’t eat breakfast, and decided to eat once for breakfast and lunch when we do AYCE later. As always, Big Sis woke up first, and then me, Miss Pepz and the always last Mr Damz. We are ready at 10 am to go to All You can eat restaurant. We took metro from Gwanghwamun to Shinchon Station. We will go to Mammoth Grillhouse. I don’t attached the map, because the restaurant is not exist anymore in Shinchon. I don’t know where it moves. I went to Korea in January 2016 and there is no Mammoth Grillhouse anymore.

AUTUMN IN KOREA – DAY 8 (SEOUL) – Petite France

Still at Day 8 in South Korea, from Nami Island we went to Petite France. It’s still in Gapyeong area. Petite France is a French cultural village set in the Korean countryside. Petite France serves as both a French cultural village and a youth training facility (Goseong Youth Training Center), and consists of 16 French-style buildings where visitors can lodge and experience French food, clothing, and household culture.

It’s not far from Nami Island. 5000 KRW shuttle Bus can take us there from Nami Island. But as you know the bus  take off once a hous from Gapyeong station. So, if we miss the bus, we must wait an hour. At first, we tried to queue , wait for the bus, but there is no sign of bus, and we are alreadt tired standing, so we dicided to take a cab like some queuers that also tired waiting like us.

Petite France

AUTUMN IN KOREA – DAY 8 (SEOUL) – NAMI ISLAND

Finally, I write this post. It’s already so long time since I have written my last post. Too much work, too busy even in the weekend, made me forget about continue my blog about Autumn in Korea. But Today Big Sis suddenly said she miss Korea so much after read this blog. And it make me think maybe I should write again, continue this story, to remind me again about our trip. And I think maybe there is some one that wait my story. Hahahaha.

So, Day 8 is our day to go to Nami Island. I think most of Korean Lover know about this island. So many Korean drama shoot their scenes in this island, romantic island and really famous island. So, Nami Island is must to go place if you visit South Korea.

Autumn in Nami Island