The Trainride to Seoul, Day 3.
We had one duty to accomplish on Thursday and that was to travel to Seoul. I'd taken the trip a few times by bus and sometimes by train, once upon a time, but the new high-speed KTX began service just as I left Korea in March 2005. In comparison, when Yeji left Seoul a couple of months later, she was able to take the new KTX to Busan to see her folks then. It's nice to cut a couple of hours off the trip. This post is of the images I was able to capture on the journey.
Having not really recorded the station names, this post might be a bit short on commentary. Busan and its suburbs take up the first half hour or so of the trip, with a few stops here and there, but it's not too long until you get to see some rice paddies and countryside towns. The mountains, of course, are always popping into view.
I'm thinking these buildings are on the approach to Daegu though I could easily be corrected. As far as I can remember, the station below is also somewhere along the outskirts of Daegu. All I know is that I've maintained the order of the photos so you can at least see things in the same manner in which I did on my voyage.
If there's one thing that Korea has as a strength for developing tourism, it's that you can travel around the country cheaply and expediently. Our tickets to Seoul cost about 45,000 won, which at the time was less than forty bucks Canadian. Regular buses and trains are even cheaper.
The scenery started getting busier again close to Seoul as we made our way to arrive around supper time. In my other regular posts lately, I've mentioned that I've yet to feel at home in Toronto or Mississauga but getting back to Seoul sure felt that much more familiar and being surrounded by family made it even more so.
We got in to the station and met my brother-in-law and his fiance (the first time meeting her for either Yeji or I.) The next day would be the wedding but for tonight, we drove back to their new house, had supper and turned in for a good night's sleep before the busy day to come.
Labels: Korea Trip 2008
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