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This will include Singyeongju - bus ride - Bulguksa - bus ride - Singyeongju. I wasn't thinking of posting these but then I watched 2 days, 1 night's Rhythm of Korea episodes so I did. Again, malay ko naman. HAHAHAHAHA. 💁

South Korea: KTX's Singyeongju Station to Bulguksa, Gyeongju



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Gyeongju One-Day Tour: Hwangridan-gil, Daereungwon, Bulguksa, Gyochon Village, Donggung Palace, and Wolji Pond




Pink Muhly

Pink Muhly is a seasonal grass that only grows during autumn and Gyeongju is one place where you can see a lot of it. There are places and parks in Busan that have these too.


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Hwangnyongsa Temple Site/ Hwangnyongsa History Culture Center

Above is a replica of Hwangnyeongsa. It is a temple built in 553 and completed in 645 but was burned down in 13th century during the Mongol invasions. This was one of the treasures from the Kingdom of Silla.


Gyeongju World Culture Expo Park.

The building in the middle of the photo is called Gyeongju Tower Observatory. Notice that the center of the building looks like a cut-out of the Hwangnyongsa Pagoda to show the significance of the Pagoda in the history of not only Gyeongju but the whole of South Korea.

The park hosts cultural and social events in Gyeongju. I took these photos from a moving bus but only learned about the history when these were featured in 2 days, 1 night variety program. 


More autumn season experience to me. Someday. Yes, universe? HAHA!


We entered this Tourist Information to ask about the bus schedule so we can properly time our tour of the temple since we have an afternoon KTX ride to catch. 


The walk to the temple grounds is quite long and uphill since it's situated in the slopes of Mount Toham.

However, it was during a pleasant autumn day that we had the time of our lives still just by walking along this paved walkway. 


Bulguksa Tour Photos

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There are several food and souvenir carts along the way. If snacks aren't to your liking, there are several restaurants in front of the bus stop and even around Gyeongju. 


Taking photos makes the walk back to the bus stop more interesting. 


I've been waiting for an autumn day before but I wasn't able to properly time my visits. This, here, is the "most autumn" day I've experienced so far that even the parking area is a photo spot. DUH. HAHAHA! Lahat naman photo spot. Palusot pa. 


They were installing the paper lanterns during the day of our visit so I took photos with the tree as well. AHAHAHHA. We were waiting for the bus back to Singyeongju that time so we took a lot of photos because, you know, ganda talaga. 


My friend took burst photos of me crossing the street. HAHAHAHA! I would have sat in the middle of the street if only if there weren't other tourists waiting with us back then. Hiya pa pala ate mo ghorl.


Favorite matcha wafer. <3

Love this more than matcha kitkat. I bought this in one of the snack shops in Busan and I always had it in my bag back then. I sometimes see this in Landmark, Trinoma as well.


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Until the day I see you once more, Golden City. 💛


Waiting area for the KTX bound to Seoul. 


More travel?

Yes please. A thousand times yes. 😂😂😂

This is the last of Gyeongju that I'll be posting for now but I have a lot of Seoul entries left in my backlogs. Will be posting those soon.


Winter morning at Nami Island, South Korea

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I am glad that we squeezed in time for Gyeongju's Bulguksa Temple when we went to Busan. Posting this because I started watching 2 Days, 1 Night again. In one of their episodes, their game was to promote places in Korea and they chose Incheon and Gyeongju. I've uploaded all my posts about Incheon so I figured that I should post this here too. 

Autumn in Korea (Jeonju, Busan, Gyeongju, and Seoul)

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Admission fee: 6,000 KRW/ around 6 USD  per person.

You can spend the whole day at the temple but I don't think you'd need an entire day for this especially when there are a lot of interesting places in the whole of Gyeongju. We would've stayed longer and explored more if we had the time. Really. Hehe. But yea, due to time constraints we went straight to this temple.

Bulguksa is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 


Dhṛtarāṣṭra in the gate of Bulguksa temple

If you ride the bus from Singyeongju Station, it's a long uphill walk to get to the temple but there are a lot of sights and things to see so we took our time. 


We went here without research aside from the bus number that we're going to ride so we didn't know what to expect.

Bulguksa when translated to English means, "Temple of the Buddha Land" and it has three halls inside.


This was near the exit.
We went the wrong way so we saw these rocks first. 



Kingdom of Silla Architecture - The Golden Age of Buddhist Art in Korea

The temple area is well-preserved despite being centuries old and was once burnt to the ground.


Didn't notice immediately that everyone was going up and we were heading down. lol. HAHA. We did the tour in reverse.


Lotus-shaped paper lanterns


Birojeon Hall houses the statue of Vairocana Buddha.


More lanterns.

When people make donations, monks place their names on a merit certificate which is then hung with these lanterns. 


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National Treasue No. 21
Seokgatap

Geungnakjeon Hall houses Amitabha Buddha.


National Treasue No. 20
Dabotap


We actually went the wrong way there.

We entered the temple thru the exit area but we only realized that when we arrived at this part. We went around again to see the other parts of the temple and good thing we did 'cause we have missed a lot. Kaya pala nagtataka kami na bakit parang ang liit lang nung lugar, mali pala kasi kami ng napuntahan. HAHA!

This is what happens when you're not paying attention to the signages when you're in a new place.


Before entering, you're supposed to wash/cleanse yourself first. 


The area outside the temple is huge and beautiful especially during Spring and Autumn because of the trees. It wasn't full on Autumn that day so we didn't have a lot of orange and red color foliage but the bright yellow did the thing. It's still very fall, right? 


 Never thought that there will come a time when I'd say this but I miss being in a crowd. I noticed that unlike the episodes of 2D1N before, there aren't a lot of people when they go around these days. I rarely go to crowded places whenever I'm in South Korea pero nakakamiss din pala. Haha!

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Those closer staircase is the National Treasure No. 22 called Yeonhwagyo nad Chilbogyo and the farther one with an arch is National Treasure No 23 called Cheongungyo and Baegungyo. Buddhists believe that people who have achieved "Nirvana" can go up and down those staircases.


National Treasure No 23

This is one of the famous photo spot in Bulguksa. We had no idea that the staircases were of great importance in Bulguksa but we took photos with it anyway since a lot of people were doing so. 


Bulguksa Bell Tower


Very autumn naman pala 'yung chosen colors ko nito. HAHAHA! Hay nako. 


I've forgotten that this is how I always looked like in selfies before the pandemic. Konting jeje lang with red lipstick. Konti lang. HAHAHA!


Anapji Pond is also a famous spot in Gyeongju but we didn't have enough to go there so we just walked around this Banya Yeonji Pond which is also a part of the Bulguksa temple grounds. Banya Yeonji means Pond of Wisdom. Mas madami na po ba kong wisdom, Buddha ngayong nakaikot na ako dyan? 😂


I wanted to lessen the photos but I just can't choose which ones to delete. I guess it's more difficult to find places/photos in Bulguksa that is not beautiful. I would definitely spend a longer time if I ever find myself back in Gyeongju one of these days, months, year...s? 


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We had another ticket for an unlimited KTX ride from Busan so instead of riding the train straight to Seoul, we decided to side trip in Gyeongju first. We didn't have a lot of time since we needed to be back in Seoul at 7 PM again. 

Daytrip in Jeonju

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We didn't get to eat breakfast at the hotel and we wanted to try something that originated here in Gyeongju but it was too early that the restaurants in the station were still closed. We didn't have enough time to go around the city area to look for restaurants so we went with our savior - convenience store kimbap. 😂


This was 3,500 KRW. 
Not bad.

I had a bottled water with me back then so this was all I bought for that morning. 


We also put our stuff in the lockers so we don't have to carry all those around in the temple. The rent for a locker was 6,000 KRW but my friend and I were able to fit all our stuff in one so we only paid 3,000 KRW each. Also, we reserved seats for the train ride from Gyeongju to Seoul before exiting the station.

For the bus fare from Singyeongju to Bulguksa, I wasn't able to take note of it since I always use my T-money and just reload 10,000 KRW everytime I run out of money there. 


Infairness to me, writing about this now doesn't bring me pain anymore. HAHAHA! I'm supposed to be in South Korea again for Autumn 2020 but yep, stuck here in PH slowly trying to find (the meaning of) life. 😂

I'm back to saying this again but I don't know when and I don't know how but I'm returning to you one day, SK! 💖


Kinikilig talaga ko kapag nakikita ko na ganito 'yung color ng trees. 


We spent several minutes outside the station because of the trees and while waiting for the Singyeongju - Bulguksa bus # 700. There's a direct route so getting lost isn't a problem. 


I surely would love to go back here one day and explore more of the city center. There are definitely a lot more attractions here in Gyeongju aside from Bulguksa. Needed to sacrifice 'cause of time constraints.


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The travel time from Gyeongju to Seoul via KTX is 2 hours and 10 minutes.

I forgot what time we went back to Singyeongju but we arrived in Seoul before 7 PM.


Ahahahaha. 'Yan pala itsura ko last year. 😂 This was last October, that trip that I waited for before doing/joining CGM so yeah, the last lakwatsa... last with rebonded hair lang ah, hindi last lakwatsa talaga. Wag namannnnnn. 😆😆😆 

10 Months in CGM

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Some parts of our lives don't work out the way we want to but those things don't have to define who we're becoming. Okay lang to go with the flow kung hindi natin makita ang bigger picture. This is all a chapter in my journey so I'm trusting this path wherever this may lead. Lahat naman tayo e hindi inasahan 'yung ganito pero wala eh, kailangan talaga bumangon. HAHAHAHAHA. Kaya ayan, paulit-ulit ako, kasi kailangan ko talaga ulit-ulitin sa sarili ko dahil nakakalimutan ko minsan. Huuyyyy, bata pa tayo, Tintin para sumuko. AHHAAHHAHA.


Nag-edit na ko ng mga past travel photos ko tapos nilagyan ko ng EVERYTHING, IN TIME pero bulk edit kaya 'yung iba halos hindi mabasa. Gusto ko na nga palitan pangalan nitong blog ko bigla kaso sobrang impulsive ko na naman kaya ayan, lagay ko na lang sa dulo ng each post na mailalagay pa rito. Hehehehe! Kasi kasi kasi, will begin again. 💖 


Pink Muhly in Nakdong River Estuary, Busan


Pink Muhly in Daejeo Ecological Park, Busan


I was tagged this photo the other day from one of my friends I met in Busan 2018. This is what I was talking about when I made a photo essay about Busan before link: here. Their memories of Busan have me in it and mine has them in it - 'cause at one point, it was a shared lives and memories for us. I replied in a DM after I reposted this and I told her, "Wish we could go back to the time when all we did was travel, eat and wait until our shift ends so we can go back to travelling and eating."


I suddenly miss them. 🥺 This is the price I pay for knowing and getting close with people in more than one place. 🥺 This is the sad part of loving people far away from you talaga, noh. 🥺
I want to give them big and tight hugs but we're miles away. I reached a point when the world felt small but bumalik na naman sa parang anlayo at ang hirap gawin ng lahat. Haaaay! 🥺 
For now, this is me hoping that we'll all get our sincere smiles back. 



Life, ito na po ba 'yung "Good old days?" Kasi babalikan ko na lang sa kwento mga 'yan? HAHAHAHA. Natatawa na lang ako. Hindi na masakit. May acceptance na kasi. Na itong part na 'to, hindi na question mark, natuldukan na. Kaso ito ngayong present na pumalit e ayaw patalo, hindi nakuntento kaya hindi lang question mark ang inabot ko, kailangan na rin ng ellipsis at semicolon na laging may exclamation point. Kahit maraming tanong at hindi sigurado (?), andito pa rin 'yung walang hanggang pasasalamat (!) at moving forward kasi umaasa na life is going to get better from here. This is still an unfinished journey (...), our life isn't over yet (;).  


We came all the way here; even so, we have to move further (and farther para sa mga kapwa wanderlust 😁).
To be continued...
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