Busan-Gwangju Part 2

Day 2.

After shopping session yesterday (mostly at cosmetic - skincare shop), so the second day was meant for sightseeing.

Taejongdae.

#howtogetthere

From Nampo Station - Coming out from Exit No.6 at Nampo Subway Station, walk straight forwards the bridge (LOTTE) or about half a minute, where you’ll see the bus stops roughly opposite Lotte Department Store.Take bus No. 8 or 30,or 88, 101 avoid 88.1.

Taejongdae is the last stop. The journey take almost 30 minute.

 

 When we reached Tajongdae Park, we have to walk up a bit further to the Danubi train point (unless you are willing to walk up and down the hills) it only start operation at 9am. So we waited with odeng soup in hand - it was so COLD.

 The Danubi train will stop at 5 points, but somehow I remembered the first stop was directly to Observation Platform.

 Nothing much at the observation platform, it just this view though.

But from the observation platform to the lighthouse station please just walk. It is quite near rather than waiting for the danubi train, 5 minute walk with amazing scenery was so much fun.

But hey, when you reached the lighthouse station, you have to walk down the staircases (a lots of it until you loose count) to reach the main attraction - the lighthouse. 

And the staircases not yet ended there, walked further down to go to the rock cliff by the sea.

Man it was very tiring.

 Edge of life.

If you wanted to experience fresh sashimi by the sea like us, get yourself some of it here.

 Man this was expensive 40,000 won for these. The only edible type is the white one. The rest of it, I still can felt the weird sweet bitter and smell of sashimi at my throat for hours. 

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Walking down the staircases was tiring, but walking up is challenging phewwwwww.

I stopped too many time to get some air. We were pretty much exhausted.

For lunch we decided to check out the Clamp Tent nearby, just  asked the information counter at the entrance how to go there. It was on the right side of the entrance but maybe 15minutes away to the main road until you see seaside all along the road. 

Previously there were a lots of stalls/ tents set up along the beach but due to the recent typhoon only 3 stalls have started their business already. I'm not complaining cause the foods still amazing. Thumbs up.
 

 We ordered a set of 50,000won clamp (refer below pic) and another one big bowl of mussels - included in the set.

 

Going back to town was easy, just return back to the bus stop and took the same bus which will bring you to Lotte Department bus stop which leads to Nampo Subway.

Once you reached this Yeongdo bridge, you'll see Lotte Department building. The next stop is yours.

 Yeongdo bridge

Yeongdodaegyo Bridge connects Jung-gu and Yeongdo-gu districts in Busan. Constructed in November 1934, it was the first island-land connecting bridge in Busan and the only single-leaf bascule bridge in Korea. The bridge lifts up on one side to make way for large vessels. 

Bridge lifts up at 14:00-14:15 (every day)

Lucky us to be there exactly the time for the bridge to lift up. All traffics stopped and we the construction freak (hahaa) immediately got down from the bus (our station was near by anyway) just to watch this. after that before the traffic continued we had to climbed up the fence  to the pedestrian walkway on the side.
Lotte shopping mall just at the end of the bridge anyway. Welcome to shopping world again #duhduhduh