Seoul and Cheju

Last night we went to 236 m tall Seoul tower, that is not even a half size of Toronto tower, but nevertheless, the night view was amazing. It was interesting to see distances to other places on Earth - more than 19 000 km to Buenos Aires - so I was thinking, our argentinian friend Andres, who we met in DMZ zone tour, had to travel almost a half of Earth's radius to come here.

We arrived to Cheju (Jeju) Island after short 1 hr flight from Seoul. It was a bit adventureous to find a terminal for domestic flights on Seoul's Gimpo airport - we thought it is located on a main Gimpo terminal, and even lined up to check in our luggage, but we were wrong - so we had to take a bus to go to the other Gimpo terminal.

Both of us were tired, I guess, after 3 weeks of intensive travelling, we are slowing down. I read a newspaper during the flight, even tried to read some korean - so far I can understand some of it as it is much simplier than chinese. I am not trying to say that I know it :), or that I am good with chinese - both of them are crazy hard for us to learn. Koreans used chinese until 15th century, when the king decided to invent a korean characters. Beacuse of this chinese influence, there are still many signs, especially historic ones, written in Chinese language.

Another adventure was going to our hotel - we couldn't rent a car in Cheju, because we didn't have an international driver license, so obviously we took a taxi. Well, our taxi driver didn't actually know where is our hotel, so we had to explain him where to go. All of it would be easier if both of us didn't feel sick from travel sickness - at the end the driver was pissed at us, we paid him 12 000 won, instead of 18 600.

We are facing Yellow Sea, that reminds me to the Baltic with its colour - I will find out tomorrow how is swimming here.