Korea free and easy : Suncheon Garden Expo Suncheon Bay Eco park

Souvenirs Shops

There are a few of them around, I notice one at the rainbow bridge and one at the entrance.

Rojak?

 We explored indoors.. This place appeared in one running man Episode.

A short show.

Ecological life in Suncheon.. 

Real animals..

Caught a 3d show

That is what we saw before we bought the free shuttle bus to the ecology garden.

The free shuttle bus to Suncheon Bay Eco Park

Entrance of Suncheon Bay eco park

We tried out most of the stuff but Some of the equipment are not in working condition and the place is so empty. 

Suncheon Expo Bay Eco park is not as big as expected. The main attraction is the green landscape, and the crab and mudskipper in their natural habitat.

We were given a stamp before leaving suncheon expo.

Not those high tech glow in the dark

but they stamp partial on our hand and partial on the ticket.

Inside the rainbow bridge are cute drawings by kids.

The swing look so cool

Ginseng?

One side of the rainbow bridge was pretty with trimmed grass patches and flowers, the other side is just grass.

Traditional korean performance

What happen to the roses?

I am not sure if the some of the roses are naturally in this state or a bad dye job?

walking to the bus stop

I like the Eco life I saw, like the crab and Mudfish.

I like some of the video show too.

The place is a bit big and confusing, we try to follow the map or the signboard but at least we end at going nowhere. We walked a long period of time for short distance as mentioned on the signboard and short period of time for long distance. It dampened our mood and interest.

The scenery is beautiful at times. but not always. I think the nicer scenery as I seen from facebook photos is usually from some high angle. 

I think wild roses look prettier. Some of the roses look half dead.

They like to mix random vibrant flowers together, at first it looks beautiful but just get bored of it.

I was hoping for more creative display of the flowers.

The most frustrating thing is lack of English instructions and brochures. Sometimes we wonder if we should continue on the same path, information give maybe wrong.

Most of the staff or almost all don't speak English.

We asked about the bus to Yeosu Expo at least 5 different groups of people, even those with supposedly can speak English could not help us.

At most, they can only give us a rough idea.

No one can give us clear directions or timing.

In the end, we took the public bus and KTX back.

Korea: yeosu free and easy part 2 : Yeosu expo, Manseongri beach, Yeosu sky tower

Random shots

We went in the morning so it was empty.

Have to drive through this cool single lane tunnel to reach the beach. That is the only natural rock tunnel in korea. so if another car is coming in from a distance, one of the car has to shift to the side.

The black sand has two tone. I wonder whether one has too much and was burnt.

Explore Yeosu Expo but i was raining.

 A good place to explore as it is somewhat considered indoor.

The staff there tried to help us but they do not speak English and do not have English brochures.

 Odongjae from yeosu tower

View from Yeosu expo tower.

It was quite easy to match the building to the outline at the window.

After the viewing tower, we were send to second floor to catch a short show before we exited from Yeosu tower

Korea: Free and easy : Yeosu yummy food

We decided to try a traditional meal for our very first meal in Yeosu.

I read about it online and the person say the mail is delicious.

The shop is 5 minutes walk from Jinnamgwan Hall.

We were a bit lost so we did ask the 7-11 staff for help.

Some restaurants in Yeosu has the menu displayed at the entrance of the restaurant in English. It was due to the Yeosu Expo in 2012. However, the people there do not understand English.

Barley rice is barley and rice mixed together. Add a bit of korean seaweed and is ready to eat.

To me, the rice is good.

The raw crab, the sashimi and the soup was all too fishy for me and my two friends. As a person who loved to get sashimi in Japanese resturant, Not really recommended unless you don't mind fishy.

The famous food in Yeosu.  We did not get to try most of it because we did not know where to find them. Maybe I should have called 1330. We did go to the fish market, however it was close to closing time so we did not dine there.

Was looking for a decent restaurant to dine in. It is near the shopping area. We were having difficulties deciding on the restuarant because of the lack of English menu and I do not take beef.

We decide on this funky looking little restuarant.

They have the standard pepperoni and cheese pizza.

They also have interesting combination like chilli shrimp and sweet potato.

The pizza are quite value for money as it cost around $10 for a small size. Enough for 2 person.

The pizza are freshly made and the ingredients are generous.

The sauce are also yummy.

We could not finished two pizzas, we took part of it back for next day breakfast.

 Enjoyed the cool weather and the little balcony with a bottle of black rasperry wine. This can be found in other part of korea. This is one the sweetest wine I ever tasted.

Supermarket for breakfast or snack to fill your empty stomach while you are trekking at Odongdo Island.

We wanted to try this on the first day. But the shop was closing and it seems to be packed with locals.

This is also around the shopping area where the restaurants are located, is like few hundred metres from school pizza.

We went on the second day. This is the first time we see Duck Bulgogi and it has an English menu.

It cost 35000 won. The extra was for soju and rice.

The staff and boss does not speak english so we did our point and order

It was duck, spring onions, prawns and mushroom. We just look at how other were cooking the duck and we just followed.

A woman seated beside us guided us on mixing the chilli sauce with some seasoning and helped us in ordering the soju.

The serving is just nice for 3 for 35000 won. 

After eating the bbq, they will serve the duck stew with side dishes.. You can order rice to go with the stew.

The staff are very busy, it was quite hard to get their attention. We were lucky that the woman seated beside us helped us.

Enjoyable meal and the food is delicious.

Try it if you are at Yeosu

Cafe in Yeosu.

We told the cab driver to send us gs25 as we spotted this cafe while taking the cab to Jinnamgwan Hall. He was amused at our destination.

The cafe opened around 10pm.

The environment was cozy and beautiful.

The friend love her whipped cream as they added some caramel or honey it.

I love my toast with almond and canberries. The almonds were toasted golden brown.

The bagel was good too.

Definitely worth a visit if you looking a place to chill out and eat while in Yeosu.