Today we got off on a slow start, but that was okay because it was our first full day that we weren't at the shipyard. The plan was to go south to Busan, which is a large port city. We grabbed some breakfast and we headed to Busan at 11.
Getting to, and traveling around Busan was quite the ordeal. Getting there were going to take route 415, but then last minute we took route 405. 20 minutes later we were at our stop, but a half-mile away from our other bus connection, instead of right next to it. Which would have happened if we took the 415 bus. Then we jumped on an hour long ride in a coach bus to Busan. This was a fairly boring ride, except for the times that the bus was jerking about because the busses here have manual transmissions.
We got to Busan and we went straight to the beach. We didn't go swimming but it was nice to be at a beach. We walked around a small island that had a couple of pretty cool views, and then we headed to the international market. This required yet another bus ride. This one was about 50 minutes long. And apparently everybody wants to go to this market and the bus was PACKED!!! We had to stand the entire time! We were so glad to get off of that bus and into the market!
View of the beach in Busan
The market was really cool! It was full of all of these shops and food vendors! If you wanted something super cheap, it was there for ya! Sunglasses and hats seemed to be around every single corner. We Sam, Mackenzie and I bought some Korean style pants, they are great! So look out for some pictures of those in the near future! There was also a TON of food at the market! Some of it looked a little sketchy, but most of it looked really good. I got some ice cream, but it comes in this J shaped cone, it was good though!
Food vendors in the market. Each of the umbrellas sold something different.
A shop for fans. Nothing else, just fans. If you wanted ANYTHING, they had it here.
We had some dinner and then headed over to the fish market. It wasn't as smelly as I thought it was going to be. But that was probably because most of the fish were either kept live in tanks, or were dried out like jerky. One of the guys was standing there, slicing the skin off of some live eels. So we stopped to watch him for a couple of minutes. He then gave us a scare as he suddenly threw an eel at our feet!!! We all jumped ten feet high! At that point we decided it was time to leave.
A vendor in the Fish Market.
The funny eel guy with the eel that he threw at us!!
So that meant yet another bus ride. This time it was a little shorter, only 40 minutes so we could go see this really cool bridge. We stood on the beach and watched as the lights on the bridge were timed with the music they were playing on the beach. It was so cool to see that. So time to go home, so this was a 10 minute subway ride followed by another hour long bus ride back to Ulsan.
The bridge with lights. The blue in the sky is the reflection of the lights on the clouds, which looked pretty cool.
I am sitting on the bus writing this now, preparing to hit post after I add some pictures when I get back to the dorms, so that's what I know for today! We are going to crash when we get back. The plan is to go to the whale festival tomorrow so that should be fun!
- Jake
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