#156 Busan @ 300 kmph... KTX

Hi everyone... this may be my last posting from Korea, but I am not sure...

This Sunday I travelled down south to city of Busan (Pusan). Busan is the second largest city of South Korea, it also hosted the Asian Games in 2002. Busan is a city with many hills around. Roads are up and down and smaller than Seoul and Incheon roads. Overall, I think Incheon is a modern city with much better planning.

It is said that night life is best in Busan, but I neither had the time nor the luck. I also felt that Seoul / Incheon girls are much much prettier than Busan girls :) hahah :)

The key point of the trip was travel by KTX. It is the High Speed Railway connecting Seoul to Busan and the technology is French (TGV). The top speed was 303 kmph and the average speed was 140 kmph. It was just awesome to whizzzzzzzzzzzzz past the beautiful Korean country side. Also the return journey was splendid.

The bus ride, that cost me just 40 % of the KTX fare, took just 4 hr 45 minutes for the 430 km!!!! Isn't that awesome? And on top of that, I got down from the bus right near the university.

KTX route from Seoul to Busan

Just outside Seoul Station

At the entrance of Seoul Station...

Cool architecture at Seoul Station...

Once inside... Ticket Counters

Waiting lounge and cafeterias...

Go up the stairs to board the KTX...

Entrance to the tracks... you cant just reach the platform, without a proper ticket!


The tracks... come come my KTX...

Voila!!!! C'est tres bien!!

Ohh!! Let us accelerate, oh my KTX... read 260.9 km/h

Wowie... Top Speed: 303.6 km/h

Korean country side whizzing past...

Inside the cabin...

zzzzzzzzz Sleepy heads...

11.50 am: Busan Station

Architecture Magnificent! Simply Awesome structure @ Busan Station
Front view: Busan Station

A part of Busan City :)
Station Square...

Pretty picture... Candid!

Look at the double decker bus... I wish I was in it!

Haeundae Beach... Most famous in Korea

And more...

Choding Power :P

And more...

And more... aham aham

Goding power...

Ooooohhh!

Aah... this was somewhere between Seoul and Busan, on my way back to Seoul. It is a river, with embankments constructed to convert it into a picnic spot. The Koreans love to sit by the river and fish!



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All in all a good trip, and great journey!

Note: Well, there are more pics, but I dont think they are suitable for public display ㅋㅋ (kh kh). Contact me personally if you wanna take a look :P

# 151 Wolmido... nice Quay

Hmmmm So this weekend I went to Wolmido and China Town...

China town in Incheon is the only Chinatown in entire South Korea... Not too big, just a small road and a park on the top of the hill. The park has a free for all gym instruments and its a favorite spot for old people :)

Next Stop Wolmido:
Beautiful place along the Yellow Sea. Nice Quay~ Lots of young people come for a walk, and especially just to eat sea food. This place is famous for its sea food like Oysters, shrimps, cuttlefish, lobsters and did I mention shells? Also from Womido wharf you can get ferry to Incheon airport which is just across the creek. You can get your car ferried across too... even buses are ferried in those huge ferries! Nice place to catch some sunset, some young people, cool breeze, colourful water fountains and skirts!


This is the center of Chinatown and the building with the glass windows is a famous as the first place in Korea to prepare the Jajangmyeon: Noodles with black Chinese Soya bean sauce. (very famous Korean Chinese dish)

These fluffy Tigers were sold for real cheap... I only wish I dint have a baggage limitation !

This is Abhi, from IITK, doing his internship at KICT.

This is Incheon Port. A pretty colourful sight!
Behind the port, you see the Incheon Sea Link that would connect the mainland with the Incheon Airport island by 2009. It would be amongst the longest in the world.

Yours Truly


Old people love this place because of the free-for-all gym!


Welcome to Wolmido: This particular mean machine just throws the girls around! Pretty picture for on-lookers and I wonder if its embarrassing for the girls!

This was one hell of a ride! Its gone almost 90 degree and high in the air, rotating too!

This is the same Incheon Sea Link seen form Wolmido

Wolmido Quay

"Paint my face"

Look at this ferry: It ferries not just people, but cars and even buses full of people!

Cute Korean kids "Choding" (choding: elementary school kids) in water!

Sunset by the Yellow Sea! (Incheon Airport Island in the far backdrop)

And I twisted by ankle once again :(

This horse cart was funny, cause the main power came from a diesel engine kept in the read of the cart, even the horses neighs came from a loud speaker and not from the horse itself!

Cute Korean middle school kids "Goding"