Jalan Jalan South Korea: The 'almost' Goblin trip *Part 2*

السلام عليكم & 안영 to all ♥♥

Second day.

This gotta be the highlight of our trip. Well this is like the main purpose of this trip. Cause we wanted to go to this place, very bad. Obviously because of Goblin.

Credit: star.naver.com

FYI, the location for the above scene is called Jumunjin Breakwater and it is located in Gangneung (Gangwon Province). Kegigihan yang padu diperlukan ketika study nak pergi tempat ini. Bukan apa, it is 3-hours away from Seoul ya buat pengetahuan semua. So it's like, should we stay a night there or we could just do a day trip? Originally, I've booked a room there but then macam rugi to spend a night there cause we didn't have much time in Seoul anyway.

Bila study blog orang, most of them were like taking an express bus from Seoul to Gangneung which would take 3 hours ++. The price was okay though and their express bus looks superbly awesome. We thought to take the VIP bus in which could fit only 19 pax. So we assumed it could be the small bus. When we googled it, memang macam VIP lah siap ada monitor screen TV depan seat masing2 lol.

Since perjalanan jauh, we tried to estimate how long would we be there and stuff. Since it took hours to get there, takkan lah nak spend only 1 hour or 2 hours je kan? Giler membazir. Based on Google Maps, macam jauh jugak Gangneung town to the beach via the city bus; 1 hour and a half. Like whoa. So macam serabut estimate time so tak balik Seoul lambat sangat. And VIP bus tuh ada certain time sahaja.

So mula2, macam dah confirmed nak naik from which time, balik on what time, sekali nak try book dekat website dia tak boleh. Biasalah limited access untuk foreigner. Sigh. so macam dah tak tentu arah sebab takut ticket sold out. Well, tak suka last minute. Biar settle awal2 so nanti dekat sana tak serabut ye dop?

So since tak boleh proceed beli, try lah cari alternative lain. I mean takkan lah takde medium transportation lain selain express bus? So I tried Google, and then BAMMM. Cause before this I relied on people's blog on the direction and stuff. I never really check from scratch. Bila Google je, terus keluar articles pasal new KTX route direct to Gangneung. And memang baru start operate last December. Sebab depa nak cater Winter Olympic Pyeongchang 2018. So macam wow menarik! Checked ticket price, tak banyak beza dengan express bus and dapat kurangkan sejam. It took only 2 hours from Seoul to Gangneung. So lagilah akak suka. Dah lah dapat naik KTX!

Lepas akak buat research, info akan di pass ke Didi untuk buat transactions. BAHAHAHA. Lastly we decided to go there by KTX and coming back to Seoul by express bus. Didi helped to purchase the KTX ticket and we got cheaper rate for 8.01AM train. Bapak awal but we needed to start early pon.

KTX Seoul to Gangneung: KRW27,600.00

Remember what happened yesterday? After we went back to hostel after the taxi's incident, memang flat habis. We were afraid that we might terbabas keesokkan harinya, the everyday routine would be Didi mandi malam and me mandi pagi. LOLOLOLOL. To save time ya guys. Minah minah nak bersiap lama ya. So after akak habis mandi keesokkan paginya siap2 semua cause mcm rasa awal lagi kesian nak kejut Didi. I lupa I mekap sekejap je. LOL. Akak ni pakai BB Cushion je, takde nak tepek itu ini. So dalam 15 minutes before 7, kejut lah minah sorang nih. Should be dah cukup lah tidurnya. HAHA. We planned to go out at 7AM ya. Dalam kepala akak sebab dia dah mandi, so I assumed 15 minutes would be enough. I was wrong. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Akak cuba wat lek wat pis okay. Nampak tak cuba nak senyum tuh LOL

Please take note that our train will depart at 8.01AM and we freaking left our hostel at 7.30AM. Holy cow. God knows how anxious I was that time. Lucky Seoul Station is just 2 stations away. Tapi kalau dah lambat, sure ada je la benda tak kena. You know kan how subway dekat Korea tak semua tempat ada escalator, dah macam amazing race wei berlari naik atas. Entah kenapa exit to KTX pergi keluar Seoul Station dekat entrance dia instead of keluar dalam station je. Entahlah tak tau lah kalau ada exit lain, dah lambat kan so tak sempat lah nak godek2 exit lain. Itu lah akak benci lambat2 sebab akak benci nak buat explorace ke amazing race nih.

Paling tak kelakar bila keluar exit 14 tuh, keluar2 terus jalan raya nampak pakcik2 tengah mabuk. KEJADAH?! Akak memang rasa nak jerit nangis semua. Tak kelakar langsung okay. Oh time tuh dah 7.45AM kot. Giler kau, ktorg tak redeem ticket lagi. FYI, once you've booked KTX ticket; you need to redeem the actual ticket dekat station. Sigh. Kan dah berlari naik tadi, sebab tak nampak KTX ke Seoul Station, ktorg berlari ke bawah masuk balik tengok betul ke? Then what we did? Ktorg berlari keluar balik. Sumpah macam bangang time tuh. Kte dah macam habislah tertinggal train. So we walked and BAMMM we saw Seoul Station. Again, tangga yang banyak lagi dekat entrance Seoul Station. Berlari naik tangga lagi gais. Sesungguhnya akak benci. LOL

Masuk2 memang terus nampak counter KTX, so Didi lari pergi redeem ticket. Masa tuh memang rasa masa berjalan laju. Macam nak pecah rasa debar dia. Boleh pulak semua counte occupied. Fuh lagilah stress. Finally satu counter dah free. It was fast to redeem and departure gate memang dekat sebelah sahaja. Well, berterusan berlarian. Barai.

Look at the redeem time; 7.51AM. Exactly 10 minutes before departure.

Relief dia Ya Allah bila dah duduk dekat seat, hanya Tuhan sahaja yang tau. Baru akak boleh bercakap dengan tenangnya. Kalau tak akak memang macam naga lah kot? Idk, you need to ask Didi how was I, LOL. Sorry, I really could not hide my bitchy mode face.

I calmed myself down and had our breakfast. Biskut tiger dan banana milk~! Ahjumma ahjumma depan ktorang memang sangat rancak berborak sampai ada lah terdengar depa dok mention dokkaebi dokkaebi. Nak ikut ktorang lah tuh.

Ada tempat charge handphone dekat bus stop luar main building! Akak kagum!

Dengan confidentnya akak salah tengok nombor bus. We took a wrong bus. My bad. Bila dah almost half way baru turun sebab tak reti nak turun bus. You know how laju and scary Korean bus is. Tapi seronok naik. Ktorg ikut ahjumma ni turun dekat one station. Then sebab barai nak patah balik ktorg redha naik taxi. Tapi nak dapat taxi pon susah bhai.

My Korean is very limited, I might understand them but I could not reply back. I will reply in English even though I understood what they were talking. So after a while, we managed to get a taxi. Akak dah prepare in written form nak pergi mana2 in case dia tak dapat catch up apa ktorg cakap.

D&D: Jumunjin Beach?

Taxi Ahjussi: Eodi-gaseyo?

D&D: Jumunjin Beach? *Tried to speak in Korean dialect but failed*

Taxi Ahjussi: *Blank*

Genius Didi: Dokkaebi?

Taxi Ahjussi: Ahhhhhh Dokkaebi!

Then we're off to Jumunjin Breakwater. Just mention Dokkaebi guys, takyah susah2 nak cakap Jumunjin Breakwater ke Beach ke whatever. Mudah dan senang. Tak payah pening kepala. Tapi jangan sebut Goblin pulak. Depa tak kenal punya.

Ahjussi tuh bila dah nak sampai dia macam start borak. Sebab ktorg tanya senang ke dapat bus or taxi dekat situ. Dia kata susah, so macam dia okay kalau nak tunggu. Tapi setakat 30 minit. Memang tak lah. Jauh2 ktorg datang nak stay 30 minit je. Sebab akak campor2 guna English dengan Korean, dia macam tanya tau cakap Korea ke? Akak baru cakap "Jogeum-yo..." then dia terus replied in Korean yang sangat laju. Sobs ahjussi, akak jawab akak tau sikit je. And I tried hard not to use Banmal with them. Kadang2 lupa kot nak letak -yo at the end -.-"

Then ktorg cakap tak yah tunggu dekat ahjussi tuh. Yela nak betul2 utilise time dengan Kim Shin kot. Ada banyak okay korang. Kalau nak feeling betul2, sila cari the correct one. Yang betul ada banner Goblin dekat situ. And semua mmg queue dia boleh tahan panjang. But no worries, laju je bergerak. Orang dia tak selfish. Dia memang ingat ramai orang yang tengah beratur tuh.

Excited noks!

Sebab macam nak menikmati suasana dan malas nak beratur lagi, ktorg pergi site lain dulu. Feeling2 amek gambar solo dulu. LOL

Didi cakap depa tengah bercumbu, tuh dia tutup -.-"

Selepas rasa macam dah cukup feeling2 amek gambar, we went back to the original shooting place. Queued like everyone else.

As per other blog, they rent the flower/scarf at KRW1,000

As our turn was approaching, the couple in front of us asked us to snap their pictures. Nervous dowh orang suruh amek gambar ni sebenarnya. Yela mana tau tak berkenan kan? So akak tolong lah snap je as many gambar yang boleh. At least depa boleh main pilih2 kan nanti. Sweet lah kan datang sini dengan pasangan masing2. Baru feeling dia kena kan? LOL.

Then they offered to help us to snap our pictures. Kami pon tidak menolak. HAHAHA. Orang dah nak tolong kan. If you asked me, memang boleh bawak camera stand tapi angin dia memang tak kelakar kuat dia. Takut tak stable and melayang la stand korang. Worst dengan camera2 sekali barai. Akak bila ramai orang belakang queue, dia macam tak tentu arah nak amek gambar. Lucky I had my shades on, so tak la barai sangat.

'Ji Eun Tak' in most red attires met 'Dokkaebi' bam bam pendek. LOL

Habis sahaja bercengkerama, we realized that we were super starving. Excited sangat nak jumpa 'dokkaebi' kan, dia sampai lupa tak makan lagi. Yela setakat biskut dengan banana milk je tadi. So we walked and walked and walked towards the first junction of this beach. Adalah nak 1 km lebih -.-" Cause masa dalam taxi tadi, we both memang dah usha ada coffee shop semua. So macam nak menuju ke arah cafe shop tuh. Mak aih jauh. Sebab angin dia ganas kan so macam cepatlah sampai wei. On our way there, terserempak dengan orang tengah bagi makan burung. Burung apa tak tau tapi depa memang terbang rendah lah and akak memang rasa depa dekat sangat dengan akak. Takut.

Ada satu time tuh burung-burung tuh macam buat formation pulak. Smart habis tapi I failed to record it. Sebab macam terkejut and amazed. LOL. Habis terpukau dengan burung burung tuh, we continued our journey to the cafe shop yang masih jauh. HAHA

Sampai coffee shop dia takde makanan berat, ada pastries sahaja. Akak kecewa. Lapar noks. 

I felt 10 years younger guna apps Didi nih LOL

We still had so much time before our balik time. Time tuh macam menyesal pulak beli ticket awal2. Yela takut habis or any other possibilities kan. So we took our sweet time dekat cafe tuh. Upload gambar, update stories and what not. LOL. 

Akak dah start berangin sebab tak makan proper food. This trip was like my first trip yang I cannot tahan if tak makan. So I had to buy Coke to ease my angin. Yeah people I depend on Coke to make me burp. Bad I know. Jangan tiru aksi saya. After entah berapa lama dekat cafe itu, kami made our way out. Nak naik taxi je sebab malas nak fikir banyak. Akak masih berangin. We were lucky, sampai dua taxi stop nak amek ktorg. LOL. We both ended sleeping inside the taxi. LOL penat sangat ke? Oh it took only 30 minutes macam tuh je naik taxi. Kalau bus lama sbb ada byk stop kan.

Inside the terminal ada Lotteria, so we decided to buy the shrimp burger sebab lapar sangat cannot tahan. Perjalanan pulang lama dek non. Oh ini first time makan Lotteria jugak sebab selama ni akak macam was was. Tapi kali ini tidak. Akak confident. It was really good, the shrimp burger.

We waited for our departure time. Penat dah lepak dalam Lotteria tuh. Akhirnya boarding time tiba. Gate dekat floor bawah. So cari the correct gate and keluar memang terus dah ada bus. Tapi sebab takde orang, ktorg tunggu ada sorang nenek nih naik  dulu, tengok how to naik bus? So that nenek scanned her barcode on her bus ticket and dia naik menuju ke seat dia. I was deeply amazed guys. Naik bus awesome giler scan barcode je! Tak sempat nak record jugak sebab amazed kaw kaw. HAHAHA. 

Heater bus macam normal je. So tak bukak coat sebab macam sejuk. Oh akak masih berangin. And the fact that 'bau' Korea kuat giler dalam bus tuh I had to put on my mask the whole time. Kalau tak akak memang dah barai muntah lah wei. Pening giler!

Lama nak mam wei. Rasanya macam jammed jugak. So macam terasa sangat lama nak sampai Seoul. Akak berapa kali repeat tidur. Sebab bila terjaga memang kte rasa nak muntah. Bus ada stop sekali dekat rest area dia. Tak turun sebab takut sesat. HAHAHHA

Nak dekat pukul 9 baru sampai Seoul. Oh Seoul how I missed you so much! We didn't go anywhere for dinner as we decided to have maggi that night. Plus dah barai okay dia punya mind dah nak terus tidur je. And I was feeling not very well. Oh Didi helped to beli ubat dekat farmasi. Segala term ubat keluar. Leuls. So esoknya buat apa? Ktorg nak pergi main ski XD