Busan - Busan Air cruise

I was deciding if we should go for Haeundae Blueline park or Songdo and after much thinking decided on Songdo as Haeundae BlueLine park rquires booking and coordinating the travel time for Sky Capsule and Beach train and its more of IG worthy photos and I reckon Dinos might be more interested to take cable car than the slow moving Sky Capsule. 

And Songdo is nearer to where we stayed this time while BlueLine park is across the city. 

We didn't make any reservation for the cable car though and I really did not know what to expect since information was not too much.

Anyways we did tell Dinos that there isn't any play here, we are here to enjoy the sceneries and outdoor today.

Bus stop to take bus to Busan Air cruise is very near to where we stayed. Using my best friend in Korea - Naver, I am able to see which bus to take, estimated arrival time, number of stops to destination and even real time tracking of the stops if location is on. 

It is so useful that we rely heavily on Naver while navigating our way in Korea and did not get lost even once.

We got on bus 26 and to ride 7 stops to Amnamdong community service center where we will have to find our way to Busan Air Cruise. But I mistakenly thought we should ride to Songdo beach and therefore missed the stop.

This stop will allow you to walk to the beach though but we wanted to take the cable care to Amnam park so we crossed over to take bus 26 again to back track 2 more stops.

We met the bus driver who drove us here just now as this is the terminal stop and he is driving back again, he was very kind to wavie off our fares and directed us where to drop when I showed him the picture of Busan Air cruise. 

We walked 10min from the bus stop to this cable car station. If searching by Naver, it is called Busan Air cruise.

Operating hours. 

We came on a Sunday Morning and it is not crowded at all save for groups of elderly who is looking to trek at Amnam park.

Prices of the ride.

We took the normal cabin as I am actually super terrified of taking cable car. TAking crystal cabin would have made me hyper ventilate. 

We did not pre book tickets too and got the tickets here easily without fuss.

We were given lollipops while waiting to board.

I took it to calm my nerves while Dinos took it just because they love lollipop.

The ride took around 10min and we crossed a sea to a hilltop. The ride is still ok if without wind.

Later during return trip, where the skies started to get dark, the cabin was swinging while moving and I nearly burst into tears.

Korea food- BBQ @ Haeundae

We reached Haeundae at 11am from Jagalchi after travelling for 40min. 

This time round, I have chosen to stay at the other side of Busan as we had previously stayed in Haeundae area when we first visit Busan in 2015.

Still we have to cross travel the city as the places of interests are spread out throughout the city. 

Mr Love had wanted to try BBQ for 1 meal and after searching, I decided to have our first meal at a BBQ restaurant in Haeundae as I have planned to bring Dinos to nearby aquarium.

As we exited from Haeundae station exit 3, the restaurant is around 5min walk down the street.

Shop front is this.

Menu, they do have set meals but we chose to order ala carte.

Their menu is in Korean but with Google translate, we can order easily.

Also there are pictures on the tablet that is used for ordering so even if we didn't translate, we can just order from just seeing the photos. 

We find it more convenient to travel around Korea this time round as most shops/ places of interest would have English/ Chinese translation. And Naver has English version to use which makes things much more easier as compared to relying on Google which doesn't work well in Korea. 

We ordered one portion of pork belly, pork, pork ribs and mushroom to try first and see if the portions are enough for us.

Staff will help you to cook the meat though and placed on the small stone by the side of the pan to keep the meat warm as you eat.

The meats are very well marinated and we all love the pork ribs most. Dinos requested to have another portion even before finishing all the food.

We ordered 1 steam egg to try though and luckily we ordered 1 only because the portion is pretty big as they had used the normal stone bowl.

And of course I got excited see ramyeon because it is my comfort food at all times and more so in this cold weather. 

Dinos tried a mouthful each and decided to ditch the white rice they are sharing with their dad, end up we have to order another bowl of noodles.

Total damage 84,000 won.

I did not opt to go for the more popular BBQ joints but decided to just randomly pop into 1 to try.

And just like Japan, Korea did not disppoint us with their food as whatever we had on this trip was delicious despite not having done much research.