{"id":17323,"date":"2024-05-01T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/auto-draft\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:24:18","slug":"thank-you-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/cycling-travels\/cycling-asia\/south-korea-japan-2024\/thank-you-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you South Korea!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It took us our entire stay in Korea to learn and master saying “Thank You” [Gamsahabnida pronounced as “kam-sa-ham-ni-da”]. Sadly, 3 months of intense Duolingo to learn some Korean did not help much with our travel communications. On the other hand, the Papago app (an alternative to Google Translate) proved to be invaluable. After much consideration, we finally changed our ferry option to Japan by booking our passage on a slow but much larger ferry. This latest approach called for us to extend our stay in Busan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this segment, we reached the end of our cycling journey in South Korea – after 924kms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2024.04.24 – [KR] Daegu ==> Yusan-Ri (46 kms | Total: 749 kms)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

After our hotel’s breakfast, we loaded the tandem and left our hotel around 9:30am. We had to cycle 5 kms in the city to rejoin the bicycle path. Just as we got close to the bicycle path, we struggled to make sense of our OrganicMaps gps directions – until we found a well hidden tunnel under the highway. We felt happy to be back in the saddle after a day of rest. The cycling was easy and pleasant – especially riding through a tunnel. As we arrived at our love hotel, there were no reception staff. Thankfully the room cleaning staff managed to reach the hotel owner for us. Some 15 minutes later, we had access to our room – a few hours ahead of the official check-in time. It took us a bit time to learn the ins and out of our room access mechanism – no key at this love hotel. Since the town center appeared to be one km away, we opted to cycle over there to purchase some snacks and review the restaurant options. In the evening, we walked to the town center for our dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n