Day 3: Joining the C-Festival in Coex, Jamsil

Today we took things slowly and just got some more sleep. Because we have jetlag.
And we went out around 11pm.

Our plan was to go to the C-festival.. because..

In Seoul, there is a 'Welkom in Seoul Week' 

Which started at 28th of April till 7th of May.

During this event foreign visitors can enjoy variety of special discounts and events.

"C-Festival is the perfect urban festival for a fun experience in the city at COEX, an "Urban Culture Playground." The festival focuses on realizing one's dream to make it into reality. 

Before we went to C-festival we went to see the giant Swans at Seokchon Lake in Jamsil.
It's an art project of the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman who also did the big yellow rubber duck in Asia.

On our way to Seokchon Lake we passed by the new Lotte World Tower which is huge...

Yeah, enormous... and shiny.

We walked for minutes and found the swans right away. We saw lots of people taking a selfie with the swans.

Yes we also took selfies with the swans 😄

We also found a store that sells.. merchandise of the art project 'Sweet Swans'.

I got a postcard of the swans an keychain of the Lotte World Tower.

We walked to Lotte World Mall and it is really big now. Thanks to the Lotte World Tower.

We walked through the mall to find a cafe. But we were hungry and wanted to have lunch.. so we looked at the map and found a sandwich restaurant called "Line's

We had delicious BLT Sandwich and a Pastrami and Apple Ciabatta.

After we ate we visit the 'Van Gogh Cafe from Amsterdam' that I saw on Instagram..  we just wanted to check it out.

It was a cosy cafe with the paintings and items of Van Gogh. The only merchandise they sell where mugs with his painting design.

I had grapefruit ice tea and Nydia had ice camomile tea.

Its a pretty famous cafe because the cafe was full with people.

After some relaxing with headed to Samseong station to Coex Mall for the C-festival. We met a friend there who stays in Busan but got a few free days so she came to Seoul.

The coex mall is still under construction and it's like a labyrinth there... so when we finally found each other and find our way outside... we saw a huge line for the food trucks..  we really wanted to eat from those food trucks there like we did yesterday at the Goblin Market.. but the waitinf line was too long and we are hungry. So we made a right turn and saw a cook festa and it's a free entrance.

There were also food trucks.. But no tables where free..

Beef with unions, pineapple and pickles.

We noticed that the beef here is superdelicous.

Then we found sweet and sour chicken which was also delicious but when you eat more it becomes a bit spicy.

We found a free table at a place where they show traditional Korean food and drinks.

Suddenly a guy came to our table and handed out a few Korean traditional snacks...

I just tried this and OMG..  it's really delicious.. where can I buy this 😮😮😮

I am going to search where I can buy this..

He then came back with some more snacks and ask us if we can come to the stall to test some alcohol... later we did.. 

We drank some rice wine which was sweet and they uses this rice wine to pay respect to their ancestors.. they let us try another rice wine with 14% alcohol (Brown bottle) which is a lot stronger than the other one.. it was nice of them to explain and let us taste traditional Korean rice wine.

After we tasted some traditional alcohol.. We went back to our hotel. Because we have to pack for tomorrow... We are going to Jeju Island. I booked us a 3 days and 2 nights tour.. the tour guide picks us up at our hotellobby at 5.30am.. to drive us to Gimpo Airport.. and we will fly to Jeju city Airport.

So we are going to sleep early for our 3d2n tour.

Xxx Lilia & Nydia <3