Day 54 Seoul Korea

DON'T FORGET, YOU CAN LEAVE ME COMMENTS!!!!! We docked in Incheon South Korea via a small lock that, unfortunately, we didn’t know about. Our Captain must have forgotten to tell us that fact! We took the seven hour tour to Seoul where we visited the National Folk Museum of Korea, Gyeonbok Palace which is a massive 14th-century palace complex, a reproduction of an ancient traditional village and the city’s centuries old market, which was packed with people, food, souvenirs and clothes. We went into what looked like a ‘bling sweat shop’, all around were women gluing bits of diamante onto anything from phones to hair pins and making jewellery. On the bus, we were handed a map of Seoul and were amused to find Starbucks had its own legend; there are dozens in the city. We stopped for lunch and were all looking forward to the barbecued Australian beef we’d been promised. Instead it was something bubbling away on a stove top on our table with hot rice and cold vegetables, not very appetising! I was on the look-out for one of those many Starbucks afterwards, but couldn’t find one, but we did pass about four on the coach.

South Korea is far more westernised than Japan, a lot of the road signs were in English not just hieroglyphics, as will our port of call tomorrow which is ‘Knock-off city’ – Shanghai. Then just two days at sea, Hong Kong and home.