Day 10: On the road again

Today we bade farewell to the by now, very familiar center of Seoul. After we finished packing our bags and had our last Aroha Guesthouse breakfast, we headed for Seoul station to take the train to Daegu. The high speed train line actually uses the same trains as the Amsterdam - Paris line, known as TGV, and I was pleasantly surprised as it was much more comfortable than the other trains we’d encountered so far.

The actual train line runs from Seoul to Busan, through several other cities we’ll visit as well in the coming weeks, but this time we hop off at Daegu station. Daegu immediately was a lot different and smaller than Seoul, there are still many skyscrapers, of course, just fewer people, less traffic and most noticeable, the air is a lot cleaner.

After lunch, we made way for Seomun market, which supposedly is a busy night market in the middle of Daegu. However, when we got there, almost everything was closed… Turns out they close down the market stalls for the shopkeeps to get dinner, after which they open up again for the customers to have theirs. It ended up being a lovely experience with many different Korean foods, such as makchang, tteobokki, gimbap and many more!