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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>The bus was scheduled to arrive at Suncheon at 11:50AM, and actually arrived just a minute before noon. Such timing would have been unheard of in Japan, but I guess Koreans are less fussed about these things. There was also a service stop along the way where you could empty your bladder and\/or get some food.<\/p>\n
Our first impressions of Suncheon<\/strong>? Well, the vibe is completely different from that of bustling Busan: Suncheon has the feel of a small, sleepy town. What especially struck me so far, after several hours of wandering around the town – at least in the part of Suncheon we’re staying in – was the relative absence of young families, international tourists, and younger locals. Most locals we saw seemed to be middle-aged or older.<\/p>\n We’re staying in the Baguni Hostel<\/strong>, a small property that faces a river and is rated 9.3 on Tripadvisor. I’ll post our notes on the property on our last day. The property was about 500 meters away from the bus terminal, but it took us almost 20 minutes to walk the distance because the street we walked along was hosting a farmer’s market. We had to navigate through crowds of mostly elderly vendors offering their produce and shoppers browsing the stalls. The hostel’s check-in time was at 4PM and it was only past noon at this point, so we headed in the direction of Suncheon Station to find lunch.<\/p>\n There are several cafes and small restaurants in the station area, and we lunched at Mom’s Touch<\/strong>, a Korean burger and chicken chain that had three outlets in Singapore before they were all suddenly closed two years ago. For about 34,700 KRW, we had a family feast set for four that contained a lot of food: four sodas, four burgers with very juicy slabs of thigh meat, and a basket of eight boneless chicken thighs prepared Korean-style in garlic gravy. We’ve had fast food four times at this point – No Brand Burger, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Mom’s Touch now – and this joint takes a close second place to No Brand Burger in terms of their fare.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Our tummies filled, we next started making our way to our first sightseeing stop: Jukdobong Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’d spent five nights in Busan and relocated to our next city, Suncheon, on Day 06 morning. In retrospect, we could have allocated a few more days in Busan to explore other places in this very modern city, but five<\/p>\n