As the title said, summer is over! I am more than happy to back to warm Queensland winter/spring. Anyways, I travelled to South Korea last month with my family for 8 days. I know, Korea again, but I still really enjoy going to new places in Jeju Island and Seoul, despite the heat. I will try link everything, official websites and Korean name, hope it's helpful.

DAY ONE
O'sulloc Museum (오설록티뮤지엄)
First place we visited after renting car. It is a green tea field, plus museum, plus Innisfree workshops. We tried the green tea cake, which is really good! (I found there's another O'selloc cafe in Seoul, at Dongdaemun, so don't worry if you are not in Jeju)
Camillia Hill (카멜리아힐)
After visiting the museum, we went to Camilla Hill, which is a flower garden with artsy decorations. Lots of couples came here to take photos (for the gram) and their selfie tools are epic! They brought a tripod and walked around in the garden, and it's really hot in Jeju (respect).
DAY TWO
Cheonjiyeon Waterfall (천지연폭포)
One word to describe day two: sweat. I sweat A LOT. We did a lot of hiking, exploring the nature of Jeju. The lake is in a beautiful blue. It was suppose to be a waterfall, but no water is falling...it seems like it's too hot and no rainfall recently.
Jeju 3D Trick Eye Museum
I wasn't really excited about going here, since I have been to 2 trick eye museum before. But when the heat came, I need to go in and enjoy some air con! We spend almost 2 hours here, take photos and tea time.
Then we head off to Lotte Outlet (not planned) and shopped some skincare products from Innisfree. For dinner, we randomly went into a abalone place and we had a seafood hotpot. YUM!
DAY THREE
Jeongbang Waterfall (정방폭포)
Day three was slightly less sweaty. We visited another waterfall, which directly running water to the ocean. Some kids even went in to the water to cool down. Walking on the rocks are pretty danger, don't forget to wear sneakers!
Food. We went to a really nice cafe called May飛 cafe (카페메이비) randomly. The boss was so nice, she knew we wanted filling food while the menu only shown light mea, she ended up provided a pizza option that was not shown on the menu to us. And she could speak English, which is a huge plus! We also ordered ham and cheese beagle, fries and some drinks.
Dinner, we actually researched and visited this place for lobster pizza. Lobster pizza I mean real lobster sitting on top of the pizza. It was really epic and photo-friendly.
DAY FOUR
Seongsan Ilchulbong (성산일출봉)
Last full day in Jeju Island, we hiked up Seongsan Ilchulbong, also called 'Sunrise Peak'. It is a signature scenery in Jeju and formed by volcanic eruption thousands years ago. We can see the beautiful Jeju Island on top.
After the hike, we went to eat Issac Toast, which is right outside the entrance of Seongsan Ilchulbong. I tried their toast last time in Seoul and finally got to try it again! It's not a ordinary toast, but honey coated and sweet!
Later that night, we drove back to the city area and did a little shopping in Dongmum market. We also went to Black Pork Street, which really near our hotel, to eat bbq black pork.
DAY FIVE
Common Ground (커먼그라운드)
We took a morning flight to Seoul. It was about an hour flight from Jeju to Seoul. After checked-in and settled, we walked around our hotel, which locate in Dongdaemun, did some shopping. Then we took the subway to Common Ground, a shopping plus design place build with blue shipping containers. It is definitely a place for Instagram pictures...lots of young people stand around the blue containers to take their best shot. 
DAY SIX
Edelweiss Swiss Theme Park (에델바이스테마파크)
After a day in Seoul, we checked-out and rented a car to Gapyeong, a countryside area about 2 hours away from Seoul. We also stayed a night in there in a cute house...but only have one air-con in the living room. Anyway, first stop is Edelweiss, a 'Swiss' village with different art and exhibitions. It's not really big, and it was very hot that day, we quickly walked around and off to next destination.
The Garden of Morning Calm (아침고요수목원)
I didn't visit here last time when I went Gapyeong. It is a really beautiful garden filled with plants and flowers. I think spring or winter would be a better season to visit here, summer probably not the best time for flowers.
Petite France (쁘띠프랑스)
Before the sunset, we stopped by Petite France, which is pretty similar to Edelweiss. I went there 3 years ago, back then, My Love From The Star, was really popular. They shot one of the episode in here, and ever since Petite France has become really popular for tourists.
DAY SEVEN
Gapyeong Rail Bike (가평레일파크)
If you watched Runningman before, they visited a couple rail bike before. Finally I got the chance to try out! My mum picked this rail bike because it's less popular and shorter. We arrived earlier to make sure we got the spot, otherwise we might have to wait for an hour. Make sure you check their timetable before hand. It was tiring but really fun actually.
Namiseom Island (남이섬 종합휴양지)
I'm back to Nami Island! There're nothing really different, except the weather...it was really hot. We ended up walked around for 2 hours then hop back to the boat. Then we drove another 2 hours back to Seoul.
DAY EIGHT
Sadly, it's our last day in Seoul. Me and my mum went to Ewha Women University to shop, but sadly we don't have enough time to visit the Pink Hotel from Sytle Nanda in Myeongdong. Anyways, we end up spend more time shopping in Dongdaemun then took a shuttle bus to Incheon airport and head home.

This trip I definitely spend some best time with my fam, despite the heat, it was fun and lots of food! It was good to revisit some of the places and I hope to visit again, maybe in winter (no more sweat...) Some places I didn't take photo, but I included in my vlog. So make sure you check out my vlog:
SEE YOU,
cherry xoxo

Can't believe September is coming, 2016 went way too fast! Two weeks ago, I went to Adelaide for five days with my parents. "Adelaide? Why are you going there?" Almost everyone ask me this question when they know I am going there. Well, I never been there, neither my parents. Sydney, Melbourne, there are very touist-friendly and we have been there couple times. So why not try something new? It only took 3 hours to travel from Brisbane to there. Compare Perth, where we never been as well, Adelaide seems to be more practical to visit.

We arrive there in a Saturday afternoon. My parents are pretty exhausted after all the travelling, so we just head to the hotel and rest. The hotel is in the city, which is only 20 minutes drive from the airport to there. Then we went to explore the city, but it was late and shops close quite early in weekend. We have dinner in the China Town and back to the hotel. We sleep super early because we have to wake up at 5am the next day...

Day two is eventful, we went to Kangaroo Island. It is one of the largest island in Australia. After 3 hours of coach and ferry journey, we finally make it to the island. We joined a local day tour so we didn't really have to plan and worry about anything, lucky the tour guide/driver was really friendly and able to tell us everything about the island. It's a beautiful island facing Indian Ocean. I thought it would be very cold there, but it was not that bad. We went to Seal Bay, where you can see wildlife seal in a short distance. My favourite spot is definitely the Remarkable Rocks, that all erode rocks formed a spectacular scenery.
 The next day, we walked around the CBD, like The Rundle Mall, University of Adelaide and the art museum...then we rented a car and drove to Glenelg Beach. Compare to Gold Coast, it is way less commercial. It feels like Santa Monica in Australia. Palm Tree, beaches, ice cream...
After that we drove to a random beach recommended by the hotel reception. It's called Morino Beach. We are lucky enough to see the sunset there. It was so relax and beautiful walking around the rocks and wooden path.

 


In the last full day in Adelaide, we visited Mount Lofty, the highest point in Adelaide. You can see the whole Adelaide CBD in 180 degree, but it's too cold and windy lol. Then we went to Hahndorf, he oldest German settlement in Australia. I will say don't put too much expectation in here, it's a pretty old village. Maybe is a weekday, it wasn't that busy and only some shops open. However, food was really good! We ate in a restaurant called, Hahndorf Inn, and I think they targeted tourist. They provide real taste of German cuisine, for example, sausages, brezel, knuckle and beer. If you like German food, you must try this! 

Hahndorf Inn - http://hahndorfinn.com.au/

Overall, I think Adelaide is a place to relax. There is a quite and slow city, not much too see. It would be quite boring to live there or study there, but still it is a lovely city. A little tips: the tram in Adelaide CBD is free. It means that travel around the CBD, within certain station, is free of charge.



Hope you like my sharing and don't forget to check my vlog in Adelaide.

SEE YOU,
cherry xoxo

Hello guys! SO, I decided to update and change the design of my blog! Finally! I tried so hard to make it happened with all those HTML and coding...and it all worth it. It isn'y the best situation I wanted now, but I still really proud of myself!