Seoul - Day 2

With so few historical buildings remaining, we wanted to check out the Gyeongbokgung Palace. Apparently entry is free if you turn up wearing traditional clothing but we couldn't decide who of us would get to wear the pretty dress and who would get the cool hat. 🤷

For lunch we learned how to make original Kimchi in the Bukchon Hanok Village, an area with older style buildings. Our Kimchi is currently fermenting in our hold luggage. 😂

In the Bukchon Hanok Village, there are hundreds of packed cafes, but we managed to get into one selling Bingsu - a Korean shaved ice dessert. We went for Mango and have zero regrets. The portion sizes in Korea have been really generous so far and it is apparently much more of a food sharing culture than Japan. Good for us who want to try everything. :-)

We also finally tried one of the ubiquitous self foto studios - basically a shop full of photo booths that provide you with cute props and hats etc. There really has been a shop like that in almost every street and it is a lot of fun to be fair. If anyone visits Seoul any time soon, you might spot our picture…

In a final attempt to find Korea's best chicken, we walked through the high rises and saw a beautiful sunset before finally soaking our weary feet on the rooftop foot spa.Read more