It was raining when I touched down in
Incheon Airport, Korea. Like my newly met Korean friends said, they seem to agree that my schedule is met with abundance of wealth, similar to
Korean's wishes of abundance in their mouth-watering dishes.
Commuting seems to be with us yesterday, my butt and legs started to ache. We had to bring our big luggage under the rain almost everywhere we go. Luckily, we met a good man who gave me his umbrella; also a young lady at the Korean tourism center in
Suwon (famous place for grilled beef and an old town of old fort and castle) who shared a space for us to put our heavy luggage. I sincerely thanked these people who made great efforts to lessen our burden in this trip to a land of rain and
gibberish language I do not comprehend.
Suwon is a place to historic. Currently, a big museum in underway, but you will note that the construction progress is quiet and clean, unlike those find in Malaysia. I wonder why. The restoration of some of the old structure, e.g. the forts, the gates and corn walls. In the guidebook as we read, we noted that there used to be a programme which encourage tourist to discover the old beauty of
Suwon via the great walls of
Suwon. If you could complete your walk from gate to gate, embracing the
mountains with spectacular views of the serene clean
Suwon river, town, and around the old castle, you would receive a certificate of accomplishment. But now there are too many people who attempted the estimated 5.5km journey, the programme has then stopped. An online blog we read, there was this mat-
salleh who tried it by reading the old guide was cursing after attempting that effort of around Suwon in 3 hours, which he later found out that the programme was no longer exist. It was really funny.
I must say Korea is a hilly areas covered with moutains of greens, which are still preserved in good conditions. How I wish Malaysia would be the same in its environmental efforts as our Korean counterparts.
From
Suwon to
Cheong-
ju, we finally found a place to put a night -- love hotel. This is not the typical love hotel you will find in Japan, but a decent place just like normal hotel with
internet facility and porn.
Hahaahaha. Simple clean room with all toiletries provided, what could I ask for. And reasonable price too. As I heard from my brother's reading, love hotel is common in Korea. You can find it everywhere here too in
Cheong-
ju. It's amazing to note how such a small town could
accommodate many different variety of motels (that's what the English signs said for these love hotels). By the way, the "motel" is dark and quiet inside. Suitable for undisturbed night activities. :-)
This morning's weather looks wonderful. I will be on my way to meet my friend in
Kwang-
ju.
Lovely Korea, the journey has just begun.