South Korea, Muju

Muju Tirol Resort is a very beautiful Hotel Resort. It was an Austrian owned resort. We had a very nice and comfortable sleep in here.

We had our dinner and breakfast in the hotel resort, the food were so yummy. You can view the photos in my food blog.

This is a very traditional and old (300 yrs) bed on display at the hotel lobby.

The ski facilities behind the hotel had been closed cause spring is coming and the snow is melting.

South Korea-Sangsoo Herb Land

We had a guided tour at Sangsoo Herb Land, Asia's largest herb garden, which features more than 1000 different varieties of herbs in a garden.

This is a chair rock. It was a rock that looked like a chair that how's it got its name.

And behind the herb garden was Doryong waterfall. It was so cold during winter that the waterfall had turned into ice. Although it is spring now but the ice had not melted.

South Korea-Everland Resort-Four Seasons Garden

This is the Four Seasons Garden in Everland Resort, South Korea.
This is a very beautiful garden. The flowers are all so colourful and beautiful.

We had lunch at Everland Resort, you can view the photos of the food in my food blog.

South Korea-Everland Resort-Four Seasons Garden

This is where the Four Seasons Garden is in Everland Resort.

There were many displays of Roman Statues.

It is interesting to take photoshot of the statue back....lol. The front of the statue is not clearly visible because of the waterfall.

Another shot of the back of a statue.

South Korea-Animal Wonder World

At Everland Resort, there was an educational mini zoo which they called Animal Wonder World where young kids can learn about the animals up close.

South Korea-Everland Resort-Safari World

The Safari World In Everland Resort, South Korea, was the only safari complex in the world where lions and tigers co exist.

One can either take the special jeep or bus to tour the safari and watch the animals up close.

The bears are cute and they could perform special tricks like praying and waving goodbye.

The Lion and Lioness were huge and they make a perfect pair.

White tigers

This is a liger. It was a cross between a male lion and a female tiger.

South Korea-Everland Resort

Some of you might have guessed from the brochures in the photo of my previous posts that I had planned to visit either Japan, Korea or Taiwan. Yes, I just returned from South Korea and had a fantastic time there. It was so cold even though it was spring in South Korea.

We experienced temperatures as low as 2 degrees celsius and night time it is almost impossible to walk in the streets and we ended up most of the time hiding in shops enjoying the heaters.

We took Korean Airlines to Seoul, South Korea. The trip was smooth without much turbulence. But the inflight facilities are terrible compared with Singapore Airlines (my favourite airline). To catch a movie, one need to look at the front screen or the monitor above our head. As we took the night flight, we had breakfast in the plane. For photo of the airline food, click here .

On arrival, we went straight to the Everland Resort Theme Park. The park was huge and there were many cute characters and the place was so beautiful.



I think this cleaner in the resort looked so cute. He had wings and roller skates.



Souvenirs shops are aplenty in the theme park.

The park was so huge, we need to travel by cable car to certain parts of the park.







I took mainly the family rides, I dont think my heart is strong enough for those thrill rides...lol.

I will post more photos in later posts. Hope you enjoy the above photos.

NATAS FAIR (FEB 2008)

It is the time of the year again where there is a travel fair in singapore called Natas Fair. Collecting many brochures but not sure where should I head to this year....lol. Can you guess where I would like to travel? Answer will be when I actually travel to that country and posted photos of them here...hehehe.

Hong Kong - 2004

Beautiful scenery of Hong Kong with the nice building in the back ground. It is a pity that Hong Kong has become so hazy so unlike from the very first time when I visited in 1983. The city is shrouded in smog and people can barely see across the famous Victoria Harbour.
Hong Kong is so crowded now.

But then I still like to go to Hongkong for their shopping. Food wise I think I still love my Singapore food...hahaha.

This is the Avenue of Stars in Hongkong which is to pay tribute to outstanding professionals of Hong Kong's film industry, to promote tourism industry, and to consolidate Hong Kong's position as Asia's World City, the Avenue of Stars is located at the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade.

This is a baby shark emerging out of the egg. It looked so cute.

But not cute when the grow into adult size.

Saw these sharks in the underwater aquarium in Ocean park, Hongkong.

Wishing Tree, Hongkong

The Wishing Tree, located near the Tin Hou Temple in Lam Tsuen, is one of Hong Kong's most famous tourist attractions.

Some chinese people are superstitious. They trusted that there are gods who could bless them. Gods would also help them to achieve their wishes. As one of the means to worship the gods, they write their wishes and throw them onto the Wishing Tree.

People made their wishes by buying a package of yellow paper tied to an orange. Then they write down their wishes and tried their luck by throwing the package high up the tree so that the package would hang onto the tree branches. The higher the package hung on the tree the better the chances your wish would come true.

It is better not to throw not more than three times as they said those who cannot hang the package on the tree, are said to have made their wishes too greedy.
As for me, no I did not buy the package and I do not want the orange drop on my head and if you did not do a proper job hanging them and the orange would smacked onto the floor spilling all the juices out (lol).

China Vases from Beijing

These vases were purchased during my first trip to China. I used those foreign exchange certificates that I mentioned in my earlier post and bought these vases from the friendship stores at Summer Palace, Beijing.

They were rather cheap during that time costing me less than S$20 in total for the three vases. I went back in 2002 and tried to get another set but I could not find anymore. sigh.

I think in eighty years later, these vases would be antique....hahaha. I wondered if anyone would offered me 1 million pound for them....hahaha..........maybe my great grandchildren would inherit these vases or maybe I should start burying these vases in soil or underground so that they become very very antique...hehehe






I was told that if these vases have a stamp below them they would be valuable. Two of my vases had these stamps but not the one with a dragon image. So I guess my dragon vase is worthless.