For the next 2 days we spent our time skiing down the slopes at Yongpyong Ski Resort. The driver from Sally Tours came to pick us up at 9.30am and took us to the ski hire shop where we got our ski boots and ski blades. At the Yongpyong Tower where we got dropped off, we went to the locker area to store our bags away. It costs 500W to use one for the whole day, and there's conveniently an auto bill exchanger nearby.
Once we exited the double auto doors leading to the snow, our eyes were blinded but our spirits were still high as we commenced our skiing day! There are 3 wide beginner areas in the resort, and the Sally Tours also provide a quick beginners class for the first day...which we didn't go to cause we realised it had already finished. But nevertheless, we were able to survive our way down the slopes without any serious injuries, even down the intermediate ones. As for the expert slopes...we preferred to admire them from far...
Below is the ticket we had to clip onto ourselves in order to use the ski lifts.
Near the entrance into the Tower, there's a station where you can use high-pressure air guns to blow off the snow from your ski blades and boots.
For meals and breaks, there are food stalls and a food court off to the side near the resort hotels.
By storing our skis in a storing bay nearby (it's 500W to lock them but we didn't bother), we wondered around the food area, awkwardly stepping down the steps in our chunky ski boots, and discovered food stalls like below selling snacks consisting of chicken skewers, corn, Spanish doughnuts, hot dogs, kebabs, octapus balls and pretzels.
One of the food courts we went into was Dragon Plaza, where we can buy hot or cold drinks and sandwiches from a cafe or a regular Korean meal. The hot drinks cost around 5000W, whilst cold drinks were 6000W.
There is also another smaller food court nearby on the very east side of the resort. Below is a pork cutlet and rice with salad meal, and a bowl of udon with tempura.
There are also restaurants into the Tower, such as Lotteria, a chain similar to McDonalds but owned by Lotte. As you can see there are stands for people to place their skis on before entering to eat.
Instead of fries, they have deep fried cheese sticks. They also have bulgolgi beef burgers which were really nice to try.
It's a very bad photo, but below is the counter where you can book bus tickets back to Soul. Just for reference =) It in the Tower near the doors towards the snow.
On our 2nd night at Yongpyong, we decided to buy dinner from the grocery store in the Tower and make it in the little kitchen in our room.We bought a packet of kimchi which is supposed to be used to make soup, but since it was our first time we didn't add enough water so it was super mega salt ^^'' Ok so it wasn't a real proper dinner, but we filled our bellies with lots of snacks and alcohol (rice wine and blueberry? wine) like all youngins do when they're on holiday away from families ;)
On the day we left Yongpyong, the bus picked us up at 5pm. We handed our hired boots and skis back to the Sally workers and the husband of the owner brought our packed bags to us, read to board the bus. The trip back to Jamsil went for 3.5 hours due to traffic, and once we were dropped off, we took the taxi to our new apartment. Again we found this place on Airbnb [https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/2042935]. As you can see it's very clean with a neat kitchen, and the building's security is very secure so there's no need to worry about leaving important belongings in the room when you're out.
For dinner, we went out to the main road where there were a couple of restaurants nearby. We chose a restaurant that had rice soup served boiling hot in a stone pot, and a plate of dried up pieces of pork. No idea what they actually were, but the taste was quite interesting...
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