I arrived in Incheon and it took about 3 hours to get to my host’s place in downtown Seoul. The transportation wasn’t slow. It was just that it’s actually quite the distance to cover.
The view from my host’s roof
One of the first things I did was to go to Gangnam. I know it from the song, of course, but it’s actually just a district in Seoul, but there is a monument to the song.
We arrived after a crazy exit from Hong Kong. Tip: The Philippines requires an exit flight to already be booked, so if you plan on going, make sure that is sorted and don’t do it at the check-in counter like we did. Some more notes at this site and I also went over it at the end of my last post.
In Manila, the traffic was crazy. We needed one bus and 2 metro lines to get to our hostel, and it took us 4 hours. To enter the metro, you have to scan your bag, and they made a big deal out of my pocket knife, saying that I wasn’t allowed to bring it on the metro. After quite a bit of talking with them, they relented after wrapping it up in even more duct tape, since it was wrapped up in China when we boarded on the train to Hong Kong.
Once we reached our hostel, we walked around for a bit, but there really wasn’t too much to see other than more cars and traffic.
