Simply Life: Honeymoon Korea Day 5

Day 5 - Although we are staying at Sheraton Hotel but due to the budget constraints set by the tour agency, our breakfast are arranged outside at another location. We stayed at Sheraton for 2 days and our first breakfast is more towards chinese style which isn't tasty.

I didn't bothered to take any photos of the food/place cos it is really not nice. I only took one photo of Dear with a nice backdrop that's all...

After breakfast, we made our way to the Ginseng store where we were given a brief introduction of its' history and subsequently taken to a "Sales" room where they push for tourists to buy. No photos were allowed in the place so only managed to sneak one. Anyway just to share, they mentioned that a 4 years old ginseng is at its best consumption and most expensive due to its nutrients etc.

We did not want to buy any products from there as its is all charged in US dollar and all pretty expensive. The cheapest I heard so far was like US400+. Anyway some of the familes bought quite a bit and in the end, my tour guide came after us to ask us to buy after we left the "Sales" room. He reluntantly shared that they have a minimum quota to hit (at least 50% of the tour group) to buy the products. We kept nodding our heads to reject but he kept asking us to help. Actually indirectly this affects his sales commission also.

We ended up following him back and he offered us smaller package deals which cost about US212 thou the sales girl does not look very willingly but in order to help him, she agreed. We bought 2 bottles of Ginseng powder for our mothers and got free Ginseng tea and capsules. One of our tour lady said she wanted to buy smaller quantity but was not allowed. When she heard we bought, she was like "aiya, why never let me buy since I wanted"...

After spending such amount, up next we went to duty free outlet mainly selling Faceshop products. As usual, sales tactics they have a sales lady who went through some of their product and giving us to try.. Dear got to try eye patch! Haha.. well those products she introduced are the more expensive products!

I hesitated quite a while before deciding to share and buy with some of girls. They even had aproduct called CC Cream which is a newer product not lauched in market to replace BB Cream. Thou this duty free outlet carries mainly their expensive products and masks, I still bought $100+ products. Anyway you won't be able to buy the usual Faceshop products you see in our typical stores.

Lunchtime! Duck meat this round...

After lunch, we made our way to historical site...

This is the symbol of Jeju Island. Folk tales says that if you touch the nose, you will bear a son and if you touch the ear, you will give birth to a girl. Guess which one I touch? Haha...

As we continued, we made our way to Gyeongbokgung, also known as Gyeongbokgung Palace or Gyeongbok Palace, is a royal palace located in northern Seoul, South Korea. First constructed in 1394 and reconstructed in 1867, it was the main and largest palace of the Five Grand Palaces built by the Joseon Dynasty. The name of the palace, Gyeongbokgung, translates in English as "Palace of Shining Happiness."

Nearly destroyed by the Japanese government in the early 20th century, the walled palace complex is slowly being restored to its original form prior to destruction. As of 2009, roughly 40 percent of the original number of palace buildings still stand or are reconstructed.

This is the queen's quarter. You notice that the main doors were actually planked and tied up rather than bi-folding it. During summer, the people in the past do this in order to allow good ventilation as it will be very hot and of cos during winter, they will keep it shut to keep it warm...

After spending almost 2 hours there in the cold wind... freezing cold strong wind that even blew up the sand! We went of to our next destination - Ice craving! When we reached, we were brought to a mini show room where all the ice exhibits were kept.

A ice piano...

Wow... Ice PC! Real monitor and keyboard...

Ice toilet?

Dear having stomache?

Leaning tower of Pisa...

We were here...

After the exhibit, we were given a 5 minute creche course before we embarked on a ice craving competition. We were given like 10 minutes and I would say it was tough! Our end results..