Fortunately, after the exam period we had few holidays. Fortunately or unfortunately, it depends on the point of view. Why do I say that? Let's me explain.
Here in South Korea, EVERYBODY want to travel during holidays. What does it mean? One phrase will explain everything: traffic jams.
We planned to go to Suncheon, a city which is located in the south of South Korea. With normal traffic, we just needed 4 hours to reach our destination. We spent 8 hours.
So here is one advice: if you can avoid travelling throughout South Korea during holidays, do it.
We arrived to Suncheon on 3rd May at night, so we didn't do too many things that day. Just walking towards the place we wanted to go to sleep, and taking some beers before.
So where did we sleep? In a Jimjilbang. What the hell is that? you may think. Well, it is like an spa, but bit different....Ok, step by step.
First, you pay around 8000 won (5'50 euros) and they give you a key with your prisoner number like this:
Then, they also give you an orange pijama, you can feel like in Guantanamo there hehehe. Then you can use your locker to keep all your clothes. You have to enter there totally naked. Of course men and women have separated areas.
When you get inside, you will see that, suddenly, all the koreans are looking at you. Suncheon is not a very tourist place, so they are not used to see foreigners there. Anyway, you have inside two saunas, and 4 pools with different temperature of the water: from 10º to 36º. This is a good place for chilling.
The worst (and actually the only bad part of this kind of places) is when you have to sleep. With the following picture you can figure it out.
So, basically, we all sleep in the floor like in a refugee camp hehe. Maybe koreans can sleep directly in the floor, but when I slept there, the next day my back was asking me why I did it hehe. Do you want to experience the korean culture? then you have to try it at least once, or twice, because actually we slept there the next day too.
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