Busan: temple, village and good people

Assamualaikum haluuuuu geng! (waalaikumussalam)

The "monthly-3D2N-trip" this time, we decided to go to Busan! Yes we already went there when we first arrive in Korea, but this time we go with our friends from Seoul (read: Mirah and the 2 boys).  Mirah, you see or not the amount of love we have for you?

Our bus from Dongdaegu is at 08:30AM and it takes about an hour+ to reach Busan. Upon arrive, we straight away head to our first destination; Haedong Yonggungsa Temple which is said to be the most beautiful temple in Korea. It is indeed mesmerizing because the temple is located at the seaside (not in the middle of mountain like other temples hahaha) and to imagine that people who came here to pray can hear the sound of sea waves....woah the tranquillity.

There were so many people that day, we do feel intimidated by the eyes that literally "scan" us from top to bottom. Theory 1: it is the day after Suneung (the Korean CSAT exam) so maybe the locals came to pray for it. Imagine how the crowds would be on the day of Suneung!

Then we went to our airbnb and settled down while waiting for Mirah. Our airbnb is at the Haeundae Market. I totally recommend this area if you guys were ever to book airbnb in Busan because foooddsssss (Haeundae market >>>>>> Seomun market). There are a lot of restaurant that sells seafood (you want raw? Grilled? Stew? Just name it) and even got stalls that sell street foods like spicy rice cake, fish cake, all-kinds-of-tempura, korean-traditional pancake, fish-shaped pastry with red bean fillings, and honey pancake (or Hotteok in korean). I am so in love with hotteok there. I mean like, I already love the usual hotteok, but here they got cheese fillings?! And the fact that I know koreans will be generous with the amount of fillings they put...ah im in love!

This is what hotteok looks like :)))) source: wikipedia

For lunch, we just went to this one restaurant (attracted to it because of seafood fried rice but end up ate the set meal; a variety of grilled fish, soft tofu stew and a lot of delish side dishes). It is only us and 2 ahjussis in the restaurant at that time and as soon as we sat down, one of the ahjussis (or should i call him grandpa because he is 80+ years old haha) greeted us. It turns out that the grandpa's wife is Indonesian so he really was glad to meet us. He showed us the pictures of his family members and even paid for our lunch! Bless him <3

Then we head to ever-so-beautiful Gamcheon Culture Village. We arrived there at around 5-ish and we rushed to take pictures while the sun is still there hahaha. But i personally like the view of Gamcheon during sunset (you see, nothing can beat the purple-pinkish sky). But there is nothing to do at Gamcheon during night though; no people and kinda hard to find the way out. But! We finally had the chance to take pictures with the Little Prince statue, the first time we came here we just gave up because the queue was very long.

For dinner we go to Jagalchi Market, it is a 2-floor market where you can choose any kind of fresh seafoods on the 1st floor and and eat it on the 2nd floor (i dont know how this works though because we dont even bother to choose). So basically the 2nd floor is just like a food court; got many sections with different owner but they offer the same menu. So it is a fight between them to get customers (some of them really just "forced" me to go to theirs, luckily my friend called me to the other side. Ah me being the easily-influenced and hard to reject people). The seafood stew that we ordered tasted okay, they really relied on the seafoods for the broth because i don't think they put any seasoning to it (or is it because we ask for mild instead of spicy one?). But everything taste good when you are hungry!