Seoul 2014

Don't worry everyone, normal beauty posts will resume shortly but first I wanted to do my final installment of my holiday. As I am sure you are aware (and probably sick of hearing about by now), I took a lovely trip to Japan earlier this year and while we were there we thought we'd pop over to South Korea! Right, I need to clear some things up - I really didn't want to go but fortunately I was persuaded into it and I'm so glad I was! What a beautiful place of the world.

I don't have a huge amount of photos but that doesn't mean I found it any less impressive than Japan, I was just so busy taking everything in that I forgot I needed to! Of all the places we went to on our trip, Seoul was my biggest surprise. We were here for around 5 days and it was simply amazing! The food was delicious.. (who doesn't love BBQ and fried chicken?!), the people were friendly and the places we visited while we were there was fantastic!

One of my favourite things we done while in Seoul was a hike up Bukhansan National Park. While I know it's not everyone's cup of tea it was just a fabulous day out in the great outdoors. It sounds stupid now but one of the things I did not expect was how hard it was... I know it's a mountain, duh! I can't remember which route we took but the most important thing is we made it to the top in a big, sweaty mess!

Seoul was very museum-y, which I really didn't mind, by this point in the holiday we were a little bit tired and it was nice doing the history part at the end after having such a hectic time in Japan. We managed to visit The War Memorial of Korea, which was obviously a must see! We saw the National Museum of Korea, and my personal favourite Seodaemun Prison History Hall. What I didn't like was that in the Prison museum they had the rooms where they tortured the prisoners and people were taking photos of their kids in them... Totally inappropriate!

You'll have to excuse the quality of the next photos as they were ones I took on my iPhone rather than my camera. Seoul is a beautiful place, as I'm sure other places in South Korea are too. I would definitely return but next time I would make sure I visited the DMZ which is the border of North and South Korea, it was very expensive this time round. I do feel like we done a huge amount while we in Seoul, which obviously is great, but we spent a lot of time in area such as Hongdae due to them being the most touristy. I think next time I go I will definitely make sure I try and see other places. Everything was so quirky and unusual, it was a totally different world to the Western world I'm used to. Definitely a holiday to remember.

I hope you've enjoyed these posts! Would you ever be tempted to go to South Korea, or have you been? If so, let me know as I would love to know what you thought!