Korea Trip Day 7 – Everland

Friday! Two more days left in Korea!

We woke up early because we were going to Everland. It was ~1.5 hours journey one way and it was a tiring ride. We first went to Gangnam to take the bus, but we took the wrong transfer train which cost us 30 minutes extra. Poor O complained that we should take the longer route instead of shortcut. Well, we find all the routes for you, and you’re there just to complain. Infuriating! Anyway, we took the bus to Everland and it was raining on the way. I thought, "Yeay! No sweat today!" How wrong was I.. 

When we reached the stop, we have to take another shuttle bus to go inside Everland. We bought our ticket and we went to eat lunch at the nearest restaurant which was a Venetian themed one.  There were many tourist groups but it was not as crowded probably because it was weekday.

I shared spaghetti meatballs and pizza with B. The pizza was nice! Spaghetti was not bad at all. I expected theme park food to be overpriced and tasted below par. It was surprisingly good for the price.

Nice creamy pizza

Spaghetti Bolognaise

We then went out and I realized that although the weather was gloomy, the air was hot. It was stifling hot and it was worse than the usual sunny day. We wanted to see the Madagascar show only to find out that to watch it we need to take tickets from the ticket booth or else we are not able to enter. So we did not get to see the show.

Everland is huge compared to Singapore’s USS, but that’s not a surprise. What surprise me was that this theme park is a mix of amusement park and a zoo. It was raining and so we find indoor shows which happen to be in Zoo-land.

The first show that we watched was about Tarzan. The whole drama was in Korean so I could not understand a single thing that they are saying. But I was amused by the use of animals that was trained to perform with them. From hamsters, chimpanzees, dogs, eagle and many more! It reminded me of when I was small and my parents brought me to watch this kind of shows in a zoo or bird park.

When we went out, the sky was dark and it was still raining. So we hopped on to the building next door to watch another show. This time, it was seals that performed! I like it as well.

After the seal show, it was no longer raining but the weather was still as horrible. We then went to this ride where we sat on an Amphibian vehicle that takes us round a small safari. I did not like this because of the pungent smell of the animals and also the animals looked so dead and bored that I pity them for being kept in that safari.

Next, we queued for a water ride similar to the Jurasic Park ride in USS (I forgot the name of this one). The queue was horrible as it was stuffy and the air circulation was bad. My favourite rides in amusement parks are those with water like this one! However in Korea, they provide you plastic to cover yourself so that you and your bags don’t get wet. Yes, you got to carry your bag in the circular plastic boat. My bag got wet while I was not (because I was stupid to put my bag on the floor of the boat). Not worth the queue but it was our first ride so I was quite happy.

Then O wanted to watch this Olympic Alien thing and I wasn’t interested but accompanied her. We waited quite long for the show until me and B went to the nearest burger restaurant to enjoy the air con for a while. Then the show starts and it was obviously for children. We then left just after 2 minutes of watching. Next we went to a 4-D show, which was called Rotating House. We were warned that if we are prone to seasickness, we will get dizzy. However, it was not that bad. They just rocked the seat side by side while the wall turns, making us feel as if we were turned 360 deg.

After that we went to see 2 shows, Beat Bit and K-Pop Hollogram. The first show was cool! It was a dancing show where the dancer wore an LED outfit. I like it a lot. The second one was actually not K-Pop, it was only PSY. I do not like him and so it was not very exciting to me. But the hologram effect was cool. It feels like he was really there behind the screen when in fact you know that it was only a screen.

It was already 6.30pm!! And we went on to try out the roller coaster called Rolling Thunder. It was the second scariest ride after T-Express, which was the highest wooden roller coaster in the world. The Rolling Thunder was fun! We wanted to try out the T-Express after that. But when we went to the T-Express queue, it was 40 minutes estimated waiting time. We still have 2 hours of journey back before we eat our dinner. So we decided to just head back. It would have been a life-changing experience as it was the scariest ride I have ever seen.

The journey back was the most tiring in my whole Korea trip. It was crowded, the weather was horrible and the people were all sweaty. I had a terrible headache throughout the whole bus ride back to Gangnam. When we reached Gangnam, we still have a long MRT ride back to Hongdae. By the time we reached Hongdae it was 9.30pm. I was so hungry but I did not know where to have dinner. We walked around and I was already in bit of temper, but we finally settled at a small Japanese restaurant.

The menus had no English and no pictures! Luckily, the cover was decorated with pictures of food so we pointed and asked which one is what. It was also lucky that the old man whom seemed to be the owner was able to speak English! So we ordered and the meal was delicious. I think the way they cook is very much different compared to Singapore. This feels more like Japanese food. After filling our stomach, we stumbled back to the hotel to rest!