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Tips for self-help tour in Seoul

Tips for self-help tour in Seoul

1。 Entry: Korean entry cards for China people are strict, so it will be more troublesome to get a tourist visa and buy your own air tickets. You can apply directly to the travel agency (business group), and they will arrange visas, queue up and buy round-trip air tickets.

2. Exchange rate: RMB cannot be directly converted into won in Korea, but needs to be converted into US dollars and then into won in China. Approximate exchange rate: USD: RMB =1:8.1/USD: won = 1: 1000 USD. It is worth noting that the airport can also exchange US dollars, but compared with the urban area, the exchange rate is only about 1: 9950. Most banks in Korea can exchange foreign exchange, but they are closed on Saturday and Sunday, so be prepared in advance.

3. Expense: Travel agency expense: about 3,000 yuan/person (including visa, air ticket and insurance). Accommodation: Stay in a hostel called Seoul Backpacker Deluxe, and book 42,000.00 won/room online before departure, which is equivalent to about RMB in 380 yuan, with air conditioning, electric fan, TV and refrigerator. Other expenses: about 400.00 yuan/day/person (excluding shopping) meals and transportation expenses.

4. Facilities: Generally speaking, Seoul has complete facilities, especially free drinking water in major shopping malls, which can help reduce a lot of expenses in Korea where prices are extremely high. It is particularly important to note that the socket in Seoul is a two-pin flat plug, and the domestic charger cannot be used universally, so it is necessary to bring its own adapter. Otherwise, you will have to look for it in big shopping malls or small grocery stores in Seoul. There is no ordinary 24-hour convenience store.

5. Language: Although Koreans are highly educated, their spoken English is extremely poor. Many people don't know English, or have a strong Korean accent, and they don't understand some Korean honorifics when they don't know English. Therefore, it is suggested to bring a commonly used book in Chinese and Korean to facilitate communication.

6. Transportation: Seoul self-help tour, to make full use of its subway advantages, you can go anywhere. Most tickets are 900.00 won/ticket, which is about RMB 8 yuan. There are many taxis in South Korea, and the average taxi fare (starting price) within 2km is 1900.00 won, which is about RMB 16 yuan. Every 144 meters or 35 seconds, it will increase 100 won, so even for short trips, the fare is considerable. In addition, there are large taxis and model taxis, and the basic cost is 4,500 won within 3 kilometers, with an increase of 200 won per 164 meters or 39 seconds. Four days and three nights tour in Seoul, South Korea. The happiest thing for wage earners is to take the opportunity to travel. This time, I seized another opportunity to go to Seoul. Incheon Airport is no less than Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

It is a modern four-story building, circular 180 degrees. It is brightly lit and does its job. A-F on the first floor is for international arrival, and 1-4 on the third floor is the boarding gate for international departure, and A-M is the check-in counter. There are all kinds of duty-free shops and restaurants on the third floor, where you can find the tax refund counter. And provide free internet access, free mobile phone battery charging, mobile phone rental/roaming (rental of SK, LG, KTF mobile phones).

Because South Korea uses CDMA, but China's GSM doesn't, the voltage in South Korea is said to be 220V and 60 Hz, but my mobile phone can't be charged there, so I have to find a transformer. The fourth floor is TRASIT Hotel, prayer room and transfer lounge. There is a bilingual city traffic map on the first floor, which clearly indicates which luxury bus can be taken from the airport to all corners of the city.

My one-way trip to myeongdong is 7000 won, which takes about 90 minutes. It is very convenient and much cheaper than a taxi. After going out, according to the map and English code, it is easy to find the bus stop, with an average time of 15 minutes. My memory can be traced back to three years ago, when I first went to Seoul, along the Han River that runs through the city, and looked at the familiar street scenes. Fukuoka Palace: The Forbidden City in Korea, the main palace of the Li Dynasty, has a history of 500 years. Due to many wars and fires, it is now only as big as the toilet in the Forbidden City in China (translated by a Korean tour guide three years ago), but now the South Korean government is restoring and expanding the Nangong, which was demolished by the Japanese in 19 10 to build the governor's office.

The floor tiles in the central square were turned upside down by the Japanese invaders and will not be leveled in the future. This is the curse of the insidious invaders, which means TMD, so that your ancestors will never turn over. This shows that Koreans hate Japanese in their bones. Now it's just for the business of Japanese tourists, and the Japanese are very welcome. (The slogan of the Baekje Shentang store in Myeongdong may be Japanese, which looks more like Chinese characters. The Oriental Sexual Culture Museum is located in a three-story white building opposite the Gyeongbokgung Palace Folk Museum, covering an area of about 450 square meters. It shows Asian paintings and sculptures that show sexual behavior.

These exhibits span a long time, from the Stone Age to modern times, with more than 300 pieces, vividly showing all aspects of customs. The cost is ten thousand won, including a cup of tea. Cheongwadae: In the official residence of the Presidential Palace, there are beautiful and fair-skinned Korean policewomen who can take photos for free. 63 Life Mansion (63 City): Seoul's first tower, glittering high-altitude observatory, aquarium, cafeteria of IMAX super-large cinema (10:00 ~ 2 1:00)-63 Fountain, B 1 F, under the sunny garden roof, the dining table is surrounded by dream fountains.

1。 Korea Folk Lotte World Museum Multimedia Culture Exhibition, Korea Traditional Wedding Exhibition (09: 30-22: 00): 4,500 won/adult phone: 02-41-4,760 ~ 52. Hanwu Village in Nanshan (near Myeongdong) moved five traditional Korean houses to Nanshan for restoration and established Hanwu Village. You can enjoy the home and lifestyle from aristocrats to civilians. Traditional wedding time: every Saturday/Sunday 1-3 times Location: Park Xiao Yongjia Content: Actually, it is a traditional wedding.

3。 Korea House (get off at Zhongwu Road Station of Metro Line 3 and Line 4 and walk for 3 minutes) www. Korea House. Or ... Kr used to be the private residence of senior officials in the old days, but now it is a theme garden modeled after the palace of Gyeongbokgung Palace.

A) Palace food: Even the cooking utensils, table setting style, dish names, dining etiquette and skills are intact. At two o'clock in the afternoon, you can enjoy traditional songs and dances while eating dinner. Sitting in the rain pavilion, eight people sat around the round table like stepping on rice. The most famous Korean cuisine is: 10% off-plate grilled prawns (with colorful sliced side dishes on prawns) (nine-flavored cold dishes) Shenxian furnace (Korean hot pot) b) Folk performance: (29,000 won) Bee performance, which is the top tradition in Korea. Girl fan dance (a classic reserved program performed by Thai shemale), and beautiful women cut peony; On the first day of COEX exhibition, I also saw the boy's Ploughing (the one with a gong in his left hand, a drum in his right hand and a whip on his head), and the organizer specially invited these folk dancers to liven up the atmosphere. The most distinctive is the Fengshan masked ball, which is very humorous. C) traditional weddings and souvenirs. Want to know the charm of Korean beauty? What I can't put it down most is the exquisite jewelry boxes used by these ladies, some of which have mirrors, all made of wood.

Those tableware are also very unique. Korea's iron chopsticks and spoons are very famous, suitable for buying home to send new people. Traditional restaurant: Quanzhou Central Council Hall (Korean seafood, charcoal barbecue, beef sashimi, stone pot cuisine, cold noodle soup) (08: 30- 10: 30). This restaurant in Mingdong, No.2 Mingdong, Beicang Cave is the best supplement for drinking Korean ginseng chicken soup on a hot day. Bletilla striata ginseng chicken soup (although it is the ancestor of ginseng chicken soup, the ingredients seem too simple) Mingdong Store: 776-3267Kr Mingdong ginseng chicken soup contains gravy and various medicinal materials, such as four-year-old ginseng, glutinous rice, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, black coriander, ginkgo, pine nuts, chestnuts, jujube and garlic. And full of flavor.

Mingdong Store: The banquet hall of Xiaopujia 778-7378. This is a restaurant specializing in making thick snow soup. If you order a thick snow soup, you will get a glutinous rice, black rice, chestnuts and red dates bibimbap. Snow soup is a soup that has been boiled for 24 hours. Very delicious.

Tang Xue -5000 won cook the meat -25000 won 235-2 T: 02-959-3779 Shopping: (shopping guide) East Gate: clothes and purses, open until 5 am: Doota, Migliore, Freyatown, Hellow APM, Desinger Club, Nuzzo South Gate: clothes, daily necessities, Nuzzo. Famous shops: Dongben Commercial Building, Central Commercial Building in Cave C (Korean-style things, tableware wholesale and cheap on the 3rd floor).

The most complete commercial building in the D-hole and E-hole of Mesa Shopping Center in Food Street: the intersection of this hole and the C-hole (shopping) Maknae Sashimi Hall Eunho 70-year-old traditional oxtail stew restaurant Jangteo Soup Hall Myeong-dong: the most fashionable shopping area in Seoul, mainly for famous female shops aged 20-30: Lotte Department Store, Migliore, U-TOO Zone, TREND 20 (leisure suit) minimall (similar to Seoul). ESQUIRE Fashion Clothing Store specially recommends that seafood soup Hutong seafood soup restaurants gather in narrow alleys, among which Mingdong Ma Lao Store has a history of 40 years and is the originator of seafood soup. It is located in the center of the Ming cave.

If you are tired, you can also go to crash SAVOY Hotel, which is a more advanced hotel in Myeongdong shopping area. The Embassy of China is located in this area. Don't worry, SHOOPPING has gone too far and has no money to go home. Pear clothing, leather, shoes and antique furniture are the best places for foreigners. Making high-grade leather clothes on this street and choosing your favorite Italian style can be completed in a few hours. If you catch up with the summer sales, it is also a wise choice to buy a fitting suit directly. Recommend a company called Post leather collection, which is fashionable and frequented by Japanese artists. The boss's wife is sincere and the price is fair. The boss's surname is Li, and the telephone number of itaewon Store is 02-796-3429.

Itaewon Hotel has delicious Korean traditional dishes, such as roast beef tongue: 17000 won and cold noodles: 7000 won. Like Li Chao's antique furniture, Li Chao's ribs will take you back to that ancient era. The most expensive area in Seoul, the Koo Pavilion, is characterized by high-grade clothing, elegance and exquisiteness. Galleria department store, a big imported brand, is divided into lifestyle museum and rare goods museum. There are all kinds of exotic boutiques scattered here. Even in summer, a pair of leather shoes costs at least 3,000 to 5,000 RMB. I saw some big-name stores in backstreet, but the styles were more novel than those in Shanghai. Such as kleven, Louis Vuitton, giorgio armani, Gucci and Escada. Ren Sidong: Antiques, galleries, ceramics, handicrafts, food and traditional tea. The traditional restaurant in Rensidong is famous for its antique Hanbok and traditional Korean food without artificial chemical condiments. There are famous mountain villages, where you can enjoy traditional performances while eating fast food, and Zhiyishan, where you can taste delicious home cooking.

Famous traditional tea houses include tea houses with geothermal heating, the Death of Heaven run by the poet Qian Xiangbing, and the traditional tea garden of Gengren Art Museum. Korean sauna: I experienced a Korean sauna in Myeongdong, named Myeongdong Sparex. Tickets 15000 won, you can enjoy the following facilities: platinum, pure gold, ginseng spa, loess kiln, infrared ray, amethyst sauna. I can stick to the last three except infrared rays. The other two were too hot, and I escaped in five minutes, but it is said that it is good for blood circulation and body fat decomposition. Although people have escaped, they are still thinking about the mystery of amethyst cave.

It is worth mentioning that the beach sauna. Walking on the beach for a few days, my feet are covered with beriberi. In just a few minutes, beriberi disappeared, and the skin was smooth and comfortable, which was really amazing. I also chose 20,000 won wormwood soup and boiled it with 6 kinds of herbs for 20 minutes. It is said to be beneficial to women's physiological functions, such as constipation, dysmenorrhea, common female diseases, and atrioventricular life conditioning. When I saw the Japanese lined up, I joined the revolutionary ranks without hesitation.

In the first ten minutes of these twenty minutes, Zhong Zhen is suffering from spending money. Sorry, the face is above, and little ass is below. They are all steamed with the heat emitted by boiled herbs. It's very hot. Do you feel sick? But after ten minutes, I got used to it and began to enjoy it until the manager saw that it was time, came over and spanked me and asked me to leave. I didn't go to several theme parks this time, because it is more appropriate to go with my family. Everland (25,000 won/adult) can be picked up and dropped off free of charge through the city tour. Lotte World is the most cost-effective way to check in at the city terminal on the day of returning home.

It got its boarding pass early and immigrated. Then you can take their luxury bus every 15 minutes and go directly to the airport, 12000 won/person. If you still have time, you can go to the Trade Building, next to the Coex exhibition hall. Coemall, underground, has more than 800 kinds of food to taste, as well as various shopping places, cinemas, nightclubs, bookstores, video stores, large aquariums and so on. Everything is delicious, beautiful and fun. Of course, there are no service facilities such as banks and post offices. Because of such a large scale, people who come here for the first time may be confused. Coemall is MEGABOX, Cineplus, Kimchi Museum, Snack Plaza, Seoul Bookstore, etc.

MEGABO's interior decoration is very unique, reminiscent of a spaceship, and with gorgeous lighting, it attracts many young people to visit. As for the exchange rate, it's better not to use RMB, because my exchange rate at the airport is 1: 126, and the official brand price is 1 CNY= 140 won 1 USD =1/64 won. Finally, Myeongdong Motel is recommended. My boss is a retired bank employee who has worked in Japan for many years and now runs this motel with his wife. A small but very clean motel makes me feel like one. You can surf the Internet, drink mineral water and borrow an umbrella for free. Its geographical location is also excellent, just opposite the Myeongdong shopping area and next to the Myeongdong subway station.

I want a double bed, 30,000-35,000 won per night. It's a pity that it's too late to find Beauty Street in Seoul. If any friends go there in the future, please let me know. Thank you.