good afternoon good afternoon guys greetings from sunny Seoul South Korea I
am down to my last few hours here in Seoul so what I've decided to do is do
two of my favourite things I'm going to a Korean Jjimjilbang Korean
sauna which is just a fantastic way to relax hot tubs saunas themed rooms it's
gonna be such a nice way to relax just before I catch my flight home also I
planned bowls dolsot bibimbap my favorite Korean food aside from Korean BBQ and
yeah I'm just at Seoul station at the moment and there is my favorite sauna
it's a short walk from here I'm going to show you how I get there and show you
the salon experience before we head off to the airport when you arrive at Seoul
station you just need to head to the home plus giant department store grocery
store and walk through it you're gonna want to walk through the food court area
and once you've reached that you just take the escalator down exit the
building and you're basically right at the footsteps of the shiloam sauna
so once you've reached outside of the building you just need to head directly
right and you're gonna find a giant intersection you cross that and you just
have to go up this tiny little hill and your rate at Siloam sauna
guys I'm so excited to be going back to the sauna actually about three years ago
when Audrey and I were visiting Seoul and we stayed here for a whole month
we stayed near Seoul station and we were within walking distance of the Selma I
kid you not I probably came here five to six times a week almost every day it's
just the most relaxing thing for me to do here in Korea I just love it just
kind of its therapeutic just sweating and relaxing it's just literally exactly
what I wanted to be doing with my final few hours here and so it's my favorite
thing to do at the sauna is actually to go and grab a meal first so I'm doing
just that there's an extensive menu can get JK's
you can get John of your Korean food but my favorite thing yet by far is a stone
pot it's rice which is called dolsot bibimbap oh my gosh she was so delicious it
comes with lots of fan chants and it's just a big portion so it's gonna be like
my last really big meal here in Korea and I can't wait to have it so what you
do is you just walk up to the dining hall which is on the second floor and
place your order you pay with cash and then you get a little buzzer and once it
starts above up a buzzing that's when you know your food's ready
oh it's ready it is ready don't sell me that look at that guys the dual slot
bibimbap has arrived look at all the ingredients carrots mushrooms bean
sprouts radish oh my gosh another kind of mushrooms seaweed greens egg on top
and the gochujang red pepper paste sauce I'm gonna let it cook for a bit so the
rice burns on the bottom and we also have the seaweed soup which is called
the meal Guk it's really tasty and served often on birthdays here is a tour
of the banchan various kinds of bond John without fish pickled vegetables
of course gimchi hmm Jim she is so fresh and tasty super spies it let's try the
fish Karen they're a little bit sweet super sweet and oily dried fish these
are like jelly it over here oh whoops it's hard to grab them with the
chopsticks alright let's try the soup piping hot it's so happy to be having C
we love saving this meal could go solve all of the bibimbap now time for the
star of the show I'm going to show you how I stir the bibimbap so basically
guys you just get right in there you break the egg and move it around oh yeah
I can tell that some of the rice has been burnt on the bottom and you just
very like crazy until it's all mixed perfectly you'll know it's mixed wall
plan basically it looks uniform throughout mix mix mix mix mix it's
almost done now such a healthy meal to so many vegetables so I love a little
Korea it's so easy to eat healthy here delicious food that's also really
healthy for you too love that about Korea all right I think
that is done
it's just as good as I remembered being here honestly one of the big perks of
coming to the sauna is that they make excellent food really really good Korean
food so I'm really happy to be having this goals left bibimbap and for it so
it maintained its standard - spicy tons of different vegetables for Seoul's over
Oh lunch was absolutely fantastic even better than I remembered to be honest
that's probably the best bowl of the slop bibimbap I've had on this entire
chip but anyways guys I kind of wanted to let you know about the entire
experience here like what it's like to comment to the sauna because there's
certain parts obviously I can't film because it's naked areas and change
rooms and whatnot so what happens is you come into the entrance you pay for your
fee you have the option of doing sauna only
or gym jabong if you do ginger balm like what I'm doing they give you a uniform
shorts and a t-shirt and that gives you access to the entire building not just a
sauna area but the second floor with the restaurant there's more floors with
movie rooms special rooms like this is biggest sauna I've ever been to and so
basically I decided to pay 2,000 more so eleven thousand won instead of nine
thousand won for access to these special features and you could stay as long as
you want which is super cool I mean you could a lot of people actually come here
on the weekends to relax and maybe they'll spend like an entire afternoon
they may go to the sauna for an hour maybe then they have a lunch for an hour
they'll come and watch a movie they'll work out at the gym they'll take a sleep
here so I mean there's various things that you can do at the gym jokbal which
makes it so so cool and for the time being I'm just going to show you a
couple of different rooms and then I'm going to actually enjoy the sauna the
part which I actually can't show you so basically when you go to the salon oh
you get naked there's a area for just men an area for just women so it's
completely separated and yeah that's the best part of coming to the gym shabak
for sure I'm going into the icer right now
I'm Canadian or what how cool gonna feel oh my gosh look pure ice ice on the
walls and it's got a blue like oh here here's a temperature look at that
white it's six Wow it's chilly in here but you know what
it's so hot outside and soul that I'm actually enjoying this more on race guys
that concludes my tour Jim's a ball now it's time for me to take these off and
head to the song which obviously cannot show you so I was so incredibly
refreshing Oh feel like a million bucks after being in the sauna it's just all
the different hot tubs and sweating rooms and then basically jumping into
the pool pool which I call the Polar Plunge it just reinvigorates you feel a
lot better than even if I have a nap by going to the sauna that's how good I
feel afterwards anyways I need to head back to my apartment gather my stuff and
start getting ready to head to the train station I am a little bit behind oh my
gosh I never running so behind guys so I'm gonna give you the world's fastest
gorillas apartment who are here in Seoul South Korea I'm gonna flip the camera
around and just show you the place okay guys so there's a place to kick off our
shoes we got a nice shoe rack here some umbrellas to use and a bracket cleaner
which came in quite handy directly to the right we have the bathroom
it's a wet shower which I just took a shower one more before I leave and uh
yeah hey very standard Korean shower you put on those shoes so you don't get wet
shower sprays everywhere yeah hanging out my towels okay so this was our
living room we had basically the couch over here David and I drank wine there
at night we had deaths we didn't really utilize too much tiny kitchen this is
awesome I could have done her wash her clothes if we had time basically
everything you would need in the kitchen microwave tiny fridge here's my room so
all basically parked up there's really nothing here
this is David's room I'm not gonna go and show too much messy bed David make
your bed anyways I'm late so I need to get to Seoul station as soon as possible
I'll have an update for you guys when I'm about
the train for Incheon International Airport
so I finally made it to Seoul station oh my gosh what does ooh that place is so
basically I had to go underground to the metro area pop up go through the whole
train station right to the very end and then underground a bunch of escalators
so as if you're coming to Seoul station and you're taking the train to the
airport keep in mind that it takes quite a while to get through all of that like
probably 15 20 minutes to get down to the platform and I use my t-money card
and it's only gonna cost me about 4000 won to get there and I believe the
journey is gonna be just over an hour waiting right now at 2:35 and I'm hoping
to get there sometime before 3:00 at the train arrives soon
arrived at the airport oh man that was such a quick ride only 60 minutes and
guys if you want to take an even faster train the Express train just takes me 40
minutes I believe the price is 9001 you don't stop at as many stations the train
travels faster and you get assigned seats where is the train I took into
general seating is amazing like any other natural so guys I got my boarding
pass that was an absolute breeze not much of a lineup but the only other
thing I want to see if I can do is exchange these t-money cards the
transportation card basically has some money on it and I want to see if I can
get a refund or not so hopefully they told me to come down to the first level
and just go to any convenience store I should be able to get a refund but I
guess I'll find out in a few minutes so quick update about the t-money cards I
ended up going to the information desk and they told me that I can go to a
convenience store and get a refund but I checked the computer store there's like
an insane line and you know what guys I know for sure I'm gonna be back in Korea
so I'm just gonna hang on to these it'll be really handy oh and I should mention
that this one from 2014 had some credit left on it so when I arrived I was too
late but to use it it never expires so it's actually worth holding on to them
if you think you're gonna be back in Korea well guys if check-in was a breeze
immigration was even easier Incheon International Airport is one of my
favorite in the world so clean modern and efficient so easy to get through
that process of check-in and immigration so right now I have about an hour and a
half to kill have a little bit of one left over and so I'm thinking of
grabbing a few presents for Audrey and family oh yeah I'm just gonna wander it
around and see what kind of souvenirs or chocolate or whatever I can find
and yeah spend all my want this is a really cool store you can buy a
traditional Korean handicrafts and other souvenirs and it's kind of high-end
stuff it's not like cheap souvenirs for example you have tables that start at
eight hundred thousand won which is about seven hundred dollars and you also
have dining sets for three hundred thirty thousand won about three hundred
dollars chopsticks all kinds of things here so the first step in here is a take
okie these are magnetic coasters oh this is fascinating so the Korean flag is
called the taeguk II symbolizes the ultimate origin of the universe and
depicts the rise of yin and yang it sure is busy at the airport check out the
crowds guys lots and lots of people here waiting for their flights and I think I
see a robot up ahead yep it is a robot this store looks kind of interesting it
specializes in Korean red ginseng that Korean chicken looks so good so tempting
but I know if I ate that right before a flight I'd regret it for sure so I just
blew all my one I grabbed two more magnets one for Audrey's parents and one
for mine guys it's so hard to believe that my trip is almost over I mean these
two weeks absolutely flew by I mean the first week
that I had with the group was a lot of fun
my favorite experience by far was a temple state I have wanted to do a
temple state for years and to finally have the opportunity to do it I mean it
even exceeded my expectations six periods of all the bowing eating the
temple food and just being able to sleep overnight was was really incredible and
something I'll never forget and with David I love their time in
Busan and in Daegu I mean Daegu was probably the
friendliest place that we visited in Korea so many friendly locals and then
in Busan we had the chance to watch a Facebook game and also go to the fish
market so I'm flying back home with Air Canada today and the interesting thing
is this going to be 30 minutes shorter than the flight coming here but still
over 13 hours so a very very long flight mega flight hopefully I can sleep for
most of it I am feeling tired already but I have a feeling I'll be watching a
lot of movies as well
it's nice to be back in Canada back to back amazing place basically
zero turbulence going there zero turbulence going back the big difference
though is that I was able to sleep a lot more on this particular plate
I slept about half the time had a couple meals and watch The Godfather Part 1 & 2
that's like it doesn't get better than that on a long-haul flight it's gotta
grab my bag and then it's time to meet Audrey and toga and look who it is just
kidding did you enjoy our stories that's what you've seen so far the David Bowie
yeah so Sam is really bad at sending like update emails Facebook messages
with David's for I was watching David stories yeah that's how I know what what
what look most interesting the food the food was amazing
yeah and it's nice to see you again I miss here and let's go let's go let's go
say hi to togi I wonder if you'll remember me
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