Korea Life - day 126 week 18 / (Chuncheon) day 2

28 June 2014 (Day 126 week 18)

We woke up early, waited for ManYong & JiYeon to come and fetch us to head to our first stop. We had some simple breakfast at home first then drove out together. We drove up into the forest, where the air was so fresh that I don't want to leave this place!! After 15 min driving, we arrived at our first stop - Soyang dam

Soyang Dam (소양댐)

Add : Buksan-myeon, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 강원 춘천시 북산면
How to go : Take the taxi there.
More details - http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=1752741

We spent some time there to enjoy the natural view (although half of it was man-made) . These are view that we don't really have the chance to enjoy especially when we are staying in the city area. Not only in Seoul, even in Singapore, also don't have much chance to see this kind of natural view.
Walked around and after taking enough picture, we went for lunch. Lunch was not very excellent, so I can skip it the next time I can back again.

Animation Museum & Robot Studio (춘천 애니메이션박물관 & 로봇체험관)

Add: 385, Baaaaksa-ro, Seo-myeon, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 강원 춘천시 서면박사로 385
Open: 10am - 6pm
Fee : \5,000
How to go - Chuncheon station (Chuncheon), exit 1. Take bus 83 and get off at the Animation Museum (애니메이션박물관) bus stop.
More details - http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=628262&nearBy=accom

This is the first-ever museum of its kind in Korea, featuring a string of exhibits highlighting the origin, birth and development of animation. There is an exhibition hall dedicated to Korean animation and another dedicated to the animation originating from other parts of the world.

They not only exhibit animation from different countries, it also exhibit animation from different years. To attract more people to come, there are various experience programs such as horror studio, 3-D theater and many more. It's a great place for people who like animation or even cantoon and children to come.

Rain started to fall when we wanted to leave the museum, that made us worry about our last stop. Our last stop is a interesting ride that I had never done before, I had been waiting for the whole day for this ride. Hope it won't affect my ride later !!

We took the subway from Namchuncheon station to Gimyujeong station (which is 1 stop away) [we didn't drove over to the park is because later we will be alighting at a different station (the rail bike is not a round trip ride), so it's better to take the subway there]. After we came out of the station, we saw the rail park sign on the right some of the station and it only took us 4 min to walk over to the park

Gangchon Rail Park (강촌레일파크)

Add: 1385, Gimyujeong-ro, Singdong-myeon, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 강원도 춘천시 신동면 김유정로 1385 (신동면)

Fee : Two seater - \25,000 Four seater - \35,000 (Booking in advance is advice)

How to go - From Gimyujeong station (subway Gyeongchun line), exit 1. 4 min walk from the subway station. 

Built on the site where the train on the Gyeongchun Line stops, Gangchon Rail Park is a popular tourist attraction where visitors can pedal along old railroad tracks while taking in the lovely Bukhangang River scenery 

We were lucky that the rain started to stop once we arrived at the rail park entrance. We were arrived half and hour earlier than our booking timing, so we sat down and had ice-cream first. This is really something that I had never try before, so I'm very excited to try it out. Actually although it's also ManYong & JiYeon first time driving this, but they chose to let us sit in front. So sweet of them !!!  

The ride was too excellent that I don't mean going one more time !! I love this ride!! Maybe because four of us riding one cart so we didn't have to use too much of strength (and some part of the ride has motor running, so only some part we need to cycle only). The ride not only run through natural, they also run through tunnel, some with disco music, some with romantic lighting. Too bad the ride was only an hrs long (actually is consist long, but I really like it a lot)

We took the subway back to Nanchuncheon station and drove to their school to take a look. ManYong and JiYeon are studying at Kangwon National University, their campus were so big that even with them driving us through the whole campus also need 20 min !! Then they intro us a dessert places that they always go (and we were also wasn't very hungry, so we decide to take dessert as dinner).

Next day we just took the early afternoon subway back to Seoul to get ready for school re-open on Monday.