Sunday Picnic: Museum Kebaharian

I've been meaning to post this since forever when it was recently happen and realize I never got to do it. Although it is late (even the building caught on fire months ago), I decide to post the photos only. Feel free to ask me on the comment box below!

Half day trip to Bogor

Shamefully It was my first time to visit Bogor Botanical Garden. Although it is near from my house (about 1 hour using public transportation), it never been across my mind to go there since I'm not really into nature trip. I only went because my friend keep bugging me.

We went at 6 am to nearest station and soon the train came. The weather is perfect for walking around, just a little bit cloudy and it made me sleepy combined with all the nature sound. So we took a stop and soon I started to dozing off.

You can see Presidential Palace from here!

 

Orchid!!!

Beside botanical garden, Bogor famous for culinary trip (done that before). There's a lot of cafe and restaurant near Taman Keuncana (about 700m from botanical garden Gate 3) and we decide to try wood-fired pizza at Kedai Kita. It was delicious as we both very hungry after waiting for an hour. Yeah I know it was lunch time but they said it would take only 15 minutes until the food ready so I was a little bit disappointed.

10 days around South Korea: Behind the Story

As you already know, I went to South Korea for 10 days in last March. I went with 3 of my high school friend, we’ve been planning and saving for this trip since last year. Truth to be told we never travelling together except for school excursion years ago. So yeah there’s a lot of stories to be told.

I remember the first trip from airport to guest house we already getting separated. It’s inevitable of course, since we have different personalities and it’s hard to match with each other pace even we know them for several years. The same trait we share is we are completely messy. It means our room basically looks like a plane crash site.

So, after we drop off our luggage we decide to go to APEC Nurimaru. And…… we getting lost. At first we took the wrong direction, instead going to our destination we went to airport direction. And after we got off the right place apparently we took the wrong route. Instead took a bus to APEC we take the bus to Dadaepo beach which is our next destination. We went to Dadaepo because we want to watch sunset fountain but…… they didn’t start until April 1st. So much for the first day.

Taken by friendly aunty :)

Recommended by friendly local citizen

As we weren’t familiar with the area and public transportation it can’t be helped that we are missed the destinated station or shelter. Either we too tired or too immersed in chatting. And we have to walk a mile because if we took the metro or bus will cost a fortune. I wonder how I can survive all those walking. We also have to go to police station because my friend drop her card wallet including transport card right after she recharge about $20. And it's not the first nor the last time she drop her things.

Unlike people in other big city, people at busan is kind and nice. They try their best to explain you if you ask for direction even though they can’t speak English. They will ask other and looking at internet if they didn’t know. They even ask if you need their help when you look like lost people. A lot of granny asking us to take photo together. Apparently people wearing hijab is uncommon there. Kinda feel like a celebrity, LOL. There even a random grandpa who bought us bungeoppang (carp bread). Maybe we seemed pitiful when we so frustrated to find public Wi-Fi.

Thanks a bunch grandpa!

You can read the itinerary here and the expenses here.

10 Days around South Korea: Budget

Here is my expense for 10 days in South Korea excluding meals and souvenir. Hope it can help you when making your travel plan to South Korea.  

1. Visa : IDR 560.000 / $39.8
(excluding bank recommendation  IDR150.000 *Mandiri*)
2. Ticket
- Depart (CGK-PUS) including 10kg baggage: IDR 1.935.000 / $137.5
- Return (ICN-CGK) including 10kg baggage: IDR 2.150.000 / $152.75
3. Guest house
- Busan ( 4night ):  65.000 KRW / $55.42
- Seoul  ( 6night ):  117.000 KRW / $ 99.75
4. Transport
- Inner city (metro, bus, taxi):  67.000 KRW / $57.12
*transportation card : start from 2.500 KRW*
- Busan-Seoul (regular bus): 23.000 KRW  / $ 19.61
- Busan-Jinhae (express bus, round trip): 10.200 KRW / $ 8.7
5. Attraction
- Gamcheon cultural Village 2.000 KRW *optional* / $1.71
- Everland Theme Park 38.000 KRW (with discount coupon) / $ 32.4
- Busan SeaLife Aquarium 17.500 (with discount coupon) / $14.92
- Nami island 8.000 (gate entries and round trip ferry boat) / $6.82
- Petite france 6.000 KRW (with discount coupon) / $5.12
- Namsan cable car 8.500 KRW / $7.25
- Gyeongbokgung palace 3000 KRW / $ 2.56

Read the itinerary here and stories here.

10 days around South Korea:Itinerary

Yup, this was one of the reason why I didn't post for a little while. Beside I have no idea what to write and been busy and lazy to blogging. I was traveling for 10 days, 12 if you counting the flight, too. Sooooo, here it is: my itinerary for 10 days in South Korea. Yes, it was really long time. No, it's not enough. Yes, there's still so many place that I'd love to visit.

Day 1, April 30.

Arrive at Gimhae International Airport. Unpacking. Going to Dadaepo Beach.

Day 2

Exploring Gamcheon Cultural Village, lunch at Jagalchi Market, wandering around BIFF Square and Yongdusan Park, enjoying night view at Gwangalli Beach.

Day 3

Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival, checking the romantic bridge and unused railroad at Gyeonghwa Station. 

Day 4:

Seomyeon shopping Area, Busan Sea Life Aquarium, Haeundae Beach.

Day 5

Heading to Seoul, Myeongdong Shopping Area.

Day 6

Everland!!!

Day 7

Nami Island and Petite France.

Day 8

National Palace Museum, Gwangbokgung Palace, Bukcheon Hanok Village, Hongdae Street.

Day 9

Shopping at Namdaemun Market, lunch at Itaewon, pray at Seoul Central Mosque, visiting Yeouido park,  and KBS annex building.

Day 10

Yri Cafe, Gyobo bookstore, Namsan Tower.

If you want to read the details I will write about the place I visited one by one when I'm in the mood, hopefully soon *finger cross*

You can read the expenses here and the stories here.

Family Trip

I have a really big family. Maybe some of you already know, but maybe some of you didn't. I have 3 big brothers, 2 big sisters, and 1 little brother. So 6 siblings in total, 7 including me. It is really pain in the ass to plan a trip together. We planed a trip since months ago but it never success. And finally before my sister going labor we decide to go. With a lot of sibling, naturally I have a lot of nephews and nieces. I have 4 nephews and 6 nieces in total. Been called aunty for 14 years.

Already ate lunch

Bowling competition

There's a cow in the backyard of our cottage

Big family

Time to go home

CITY TOUR

Today randomly I got up early and get the mood to explore the city. Actually I already made the rough plan with my friend but still not sure whether to do it or not. Since it's my day-off and I don't know what to do and so do her, we agreed that the plan must go on. Thankfully the weather was good although it got really hot after a couple hour.

Our first stop is train station called St. Tawang. If you look carefully the lobby still contains colonial architecture but I'm not sure if you can see it from this picture :p We just park our motorcycle there and then start to explore "Kota Lama". So here we are, looks like a tourist with our pocket camera in our hands.

 

Short Vacation (Malang)

Hmm, where should I start?

Last week I went to Malang. I visited my friend’s place before meet up with my sister. She (my friend, Melur) picked me up at the station and then we went to her place. We just lying around until my sister pick us and we went to Batu. It is a tourism city at East Java. It have theme parks, museums, and zoos at one location.