Seoul 6D5N: Gyeongbokgung (景福宫)

According to my Jimui, this is one of the places that we must visit as a tourist, else it's such a shame to tell people that we have visited Korea. Haha.. Beside this place, of course there are few others lar, which I'll subsequently update in separate posts :)

We woke up at 7 something in the morning, had our breakie and arrived there around 9 something via train. 

Direction to Gyeongbokgung (景福宫) from Myeong-dong:

1. Take Line 4 in the direction to Chungmuro (refer figure 1) to

2. Transfer to Line 3 in the direction to Euljiro 3(sam)-ga station (refer figure 2) and
3. Get down at the 4th station,  the Gyeongbokgung (景福宫) station.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Once you disembarked from the train, you would see this.
(Don't ask me what's written there as I've forgotten my Ancient Calligraphy) lol

Feeble attempt at getting an illusion-like space photo?

Panorama view :D

The ticket for Gyeongbokgung (景福宫) is KRW 3, 000. If your intention is just to take photos, then you may visit the place on your own. However, if you would like to know the story/history about the place, then perhaps you may wanna join some tourist groups as they offer separate/customizable package for tourists (just like my Krabi trip, we engaged with tour agent for specific tours only, eg: 4-island hopping tour and jungle-trekking tour). 

Photo taken before we entered the palace :D

For us, as we were quite last minute to engage with the agent to book any tours already, so we deliberately walked/strolled around the place and maintained not more than 20-feet from the tourist group that was happened to be there. LOL (saved money eh? :p) The bonus to us was, the tour guide was conversing in Mandarin via a loud speaker :p

Few different shots of my defocus attempts:

A nice background for portrait shot, which I did for my Jimui XD

Thinking wanna buy new lens.. But.. Hmm..

There really are countless of great background with strong cultural essence and ambience for great portraits, really ~~~

The Empress Dowager's private palace.

The entire Gyeongbokgung is really damn huge lar TBH, only managed to share a few photos here ya. You must really visit the palace yourself to see how huge the compound is, we really lost our way know? Then we decided to just follow the crowd lar, which led us to The National Folk Museum of Korea. Haha..

Here, gonna end the post with a side-diagonal view of the Emperor's study hall:

Should have taken this shot from a lower angle? Hmm...

Anyway, stay tuned for more updates :D
* In case you have not read about our Seoul 6D5N itinerary, please click here :D