Gyeongju Summer Trip (part 8): Pension Village

What a colorful block of houses. Pretty neat. They looked more like Lego blocks: and that's what makes it even way cooler to look at. 

Freya, Eyra, and their Mom were passing a house with rice field right in front of it. What a way to live.  

This is what I mean. I wonder if this rice field would stand against the time and against our greed of setting up more buildings (e.g. pensions). I hope that they just let it be like this. 

Oh. we saw one of the pension (which) used to be a location for 1박2일 (One Night, Two Days) TV Show in Korea.  

Another greenery in the neighborhood. 

Eyes soothed. 

Mind cured.

Gyeongju Summer Trip (part 6): Staying at 펜션 (Pension)

One of the advantages of staying at this kind of pension was the garden or front yard full of things to explore, at least for the kids. 

Eyra and Freya ran down the stairs and started to have their hide-and-seek game. 

Taken from the 2nd floor veranda, I could see a number of pensions in the neighborhood. 

Oh, even mbak Ulfa played along with the kids. Yes..it's around 6.30 and yet..it's still bright. oh, right..it's summer. the sun does not set until around 7.30. So, it means only one thing: we got plenty of time. 

This is the corner of the stairs that connect our room with the 1st floor. I think the owner did a good job in 'decorating' its pension. 

A view from the door leading to the 2nd floor veranda. Up front were another row of pensions: well, that's why it's called 'Pension Village'  

Once again..it's green, yes. But...boy..it's still hot. Summer..gosh..summer. and yet..it's already 6.30..but the heat....

it's a good thing, though that....we managed to enjoy to our fulfillment. 

This is the facade of our pension we stayed in.

I just wished that we'd have one of these back here in Seoul.^^ 

Now..let's take a pose, girls. 

the second pose, girls. oh..wait..om Wawan, too. Yeach..once again..I do wish to have this kind of wooden house this posh in Seoul. 

With vast front yard for us to play along the whole year...around...

who would not wanna stay in this kind of place?

This is the plus side of having a trip to Gyeongju and staying in a place like this.

A different life from what we have in Seoul, for sure. 

Gyeongju Summer Trip (part 4)

After taking the express bus with the priciest fare we'd known so far....(\ 1.450 hahahaha), we arrived at Bukgundong or Bukgun Pension Village. (북군펜션마을). 

This is the three-section in front of the street that led us to the pension we were about to stay in for 2 nights.  Gosh..oh gosh..it was so hot. It's stifling hot. Well..the picture sure shows how blue the sky was. How green the trees were. But..oh boy..oh boy..as soon as we got off the bus, we came face to face with the the real culprit for our 2-day great and not that great summer trip.  

But first...let me tell you..that we're so lucky to have reserved the Pension we chose from the arrays of selection on the internet. 

Why we're lucky? well, the owner herself picked us up from the very place we got off the bus. We're waiting for her. 

And..after 5 minutes or so, she arrived with her car (not shown here) that would take us to her pension she manages. 

What is pension and what does it look like? 

See in my other entries on this Gyeongju Summer Trip.