South Korea Trip Day 5: 13 February 2014, Thursday - Everland
韩国之旅第五天：2月13日2014年, 星期四 - 爱宝乐园
Everland 爱宝乐园
Address: 199 Everland-ro, Pogog-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea [Google Maps Link]
Operating Hours: 10:00 - 22:00
http://www.everland.com/web/multi/english/everland/everland_guide/hours/open_hour.html
Website: http://www.everland.com/web/multi/english/everland/main.html
If you're ever in South Korea, one of the places you have to visit is Everland. It is South Korea's largest theme park. And it was part of our 8 days package tour with Hong Thai Travel. We were taken to Everland via coach and we alighted right outside the entrance. It was about 10:30am when we reached Everland, and we had until 2pm to finish the park. That's too short a time to visit a theme park, and especially when it's one of the largest in South Korea.
The entrance to Everland.
Presenting to you, Everland!
Another entrance to Everland.
We were given additional tickets by our tour guide to enter the Lost Valley, where we could take an amphibious vehicle and journey through the safari, visiting the animals in their wildest habitats. Hence it was our own free and easy visit to Everland. We walked around and took tonnes of pictures, and took a gondola downhill to reach a different part of the park. There were so many rides and attractions to visit that we certainly did not have enough time to try every single one of them, even though the park was not very crowded.
Tickets to enter the Lost Valley Safari Adventure area.
Really feels like winter with these snowmen in the background.
A tower with a unicorn on top.
Looks a bit like Madagascar.
The Double Rock Spin ride.
The world's steepest wooden roller-coaster, the T Express, in the background.
One fast and easy way to get from one point of the theme park to another.
Alighting from the gondola, we found ourselves at the Zootopia area. It is an area where you can pat animals, ride a pony and get up close and personal with many of these animals. The Lost Valley and Safari World is also situated within the Zootopia area.
These are not real giraffes.
This is a real pony. No, not the one standing on two legs.
Feels more and more like Madagascar.
One of the rides we took was one involving sitting on floats and sliding down a snow slope. Dear and I sat on a huge float together and we were pulled up the slope via a pulley. Once we reached the top, we then slid down the slope to feel the rush of cold air blowing on our already cold faces and reached the bottom in no time.
This ride is for kids to sit on floats and slide down this snow slope.
We adults take a bigger and longer slope. We were pulled up the slope with a pulley.
Next, we entered the Safari World to take a bus through the safari. There were plenty of interesting animals to see, such as a liger, which is a hybrid of a male lion and a tigress, as well as white tigers and leos. At one point during the ride, the driver would toss snacks at some brown bears, where they would do some praying positions. Obviously they were trained to do so to entertain visitors. The whole ride took slightly more than 10 mins.
The Safari World is an area where we can tour around a safari inside an amphibious vehicle.
They have a few interesting animals inside the safari, like a liger, a white tiger and a white leo.
A white tiger.
Hyenas.
White leos.
The original lions.
A tiger basking in the sun.
A brown bear lazing around.
After the ride, we had some churros. What's a theme park visit without munching on churros? It's a must-have while visiting theme parks. Well, at least for Momorange. After that, to our dismay, we found the Amazon Express closed for the day. Not sure what ride it is but it sure sounds interesting. And the T Express, which is the world's steepest wooden roller-coaster, was also closed for maintenance or something. Not as though we would try it. Seemed too scary for us to try it out.
Dear enjoys a stick of churro.
The Amazon Express was closed for the day...
Then we reached the entrance of the Lost Valley, which is the area for us to utilize our tickets to hop onto the amphibious vehicle and be driven through another safari, but this time with different animals and through water and land. Sadly somehow we were told that we couldn't enter the area, even with the tickets we had, for some reason. Therefore we gave this attraction a miss.
The entrance to the Lost Valley.
We ended up visiting the patting zone, where you can actually pat the little animals found there. One could pat furry animals like bunnies, sheep, guinea pigs and even go on a pony ride. We did none of these, so we just merely walked around taking some pictures.
These little cuties still sleeping like logs.
Pat a furry bunny.
Its cute little home nicely decorated.
Look at these cute guinea pigs.
Baa baa white sheep have you any wool?
You can ever have a pony ride here.
Those staff look kinda funny wearing those costumes.
Inside a shop selling merchandise from popular K-Pop acts like Psy, 2NE1 and Bigbang.
Cool instant photograph station where you can "take photos with the K-Pop stars".
It's Petty, Pororo and Momo!
It sure is nice to cuddle and nap like this.
There was this attraction whereby you enter a small indoor area where you could watch hologram concerts of K-Pop acts like 2NE1, Psy or Bigbang on a screen as shown below. There were disco lights and loud music to accompany the holographic performance from these K-Pop stars. There was also a station for visitors to take pictures of themselves, which would later have the faces superimposed onto some templates of these K-Pop stars and then projected onto the screens. Quite an interesting feature in a theme park.
Do you see Momo dear on the screen?
We then discovered some 3D shows of Pororo and also a Madagascar live performance attraction, all of which we did not visit due to the lack of time. We then found ourselves taking a slow Festival Train ride around the European Adventure area, which is an area with European-style buildings.
The characters of Pororo gathered on the roof of this 3D adventure ride building.
A life-sized Eddy and Momo dear.
Now here's the real Madagascar.
Say cheese!
Take the Festival Train around the European Adventure area.
A huge stage right in the middle where performances are held.
A view from the train.
We went past Amsterdam on the Festival Train.
Wouldn't you want to bring one of these cute little cuddlies home?
Finally, seeing that it was almost 2pm and time for us to gather at the entrance to go for our lunch, we decided to visit the last few shops selling souvenirs.
Some kiddy ride. I seriously wonder how kids would find these fun.
A restaurant for those hunger pangs.
There's a travelator for those lazy to walk.
Why is Momo dear sitting all alone here?
Yay the picture is now complete. :D
A final visit to the merchandise store. Psy says goodbye.
And that was pretty much what we did for the 3.5 hours in Everland. It was a really short duration spent at Everland and it felt like a
sneak preview of what Everland really had to offer. Of course, this was
expected when taking a tour package. We would definitely be able to
fully enjoy the Everland experience the next time we visit it, on a
free-and-easy tour of course!
I'm sure we would be able to better enjoy all the attractions in Everland if we could spend one whole day there!
Everland 爱宝乐园
Address: 199 Everland-ro, Pogog-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea [Google Maps Link]
Operating Hours: 10:00 - 22:00
http://www.everland.com/web/multi/english/everland/everland_guide/hours/open_hour.html
Website: http://www.everland.com/web/multi/english/everland/main.html
Links to our South Korea Trip 2014
Day 1 - Jeju Island 济州岛
Day 2 - Jeju Island 济州岛
Day 2 - Jeju Island - Trick Art Museum 济州岛 - 幻觉艺术博物馆
Day 2 - Jeju Island - Jeju Glass Castle 济州岛 - 玻璃城堡
Day 2 - Jeju Island - Teddy Bear Museum 济州岛 - 泰迪熊博物馆
Day 3 - Nami Island 南怡岛, Seorak Waterpia 韩华温泉水上乐园
Day 4 - Yongpyong Resort 龙平豪华度假村
Day 5 - Everland 爱宝乐园, Lotte World 乐天世界
Day 5 - Lotte World 乐天世界
Day 6 - Ice Gallery 冰雕艺术体验馆, Myeondong 明洞, Namdaemun 南大门, Jump Show JUMP 演出
Day 7 - Mapo Agricultural and Marine Products Market 麻浦农水产物市场
Souvenirs
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