Koreania
Recently, I and my twin brother James traveled to Korea during the rare very long Holy Week vacation. That is, the Holy Weekend followed by Araw ng Kagitingan (Bataan Day). We travelled around Korea with a tour group of 18 people plus our Philippine guide, Korean guide and tourbus driver.
Day 1
Our little brother, Joshua, takes us to the NAIA. We tried to leave early, but traffic still turned out heavy due to the coming Holy weekend. Our Philippine guide, Imelda, kept calling James as to where we are. We made it to the airport with a couple of hours to spare. Baggage check and body check went without incident. We took off at 2:20pm and arrived at Inchon International Airport at around 7:30pm. It’s from there we began to be introduced with other members of the tour group.
We proceed to the immigration counter. The immigration officer checking James finished without incident. Mine took a little longer as I now looked different from the passport picture since I lost 20 lbs last year. The lady immigration officer had to ask when the picture in the passport was taken. Well duh, at around the same month the passport was issued.
We finally make it to the second to the last departure gate where our Korean guide is waiting for us. Getting out of the departure building took a little longer as two other members are missing, but it turns out they’ve been waiting for quite a while. That’s because they applied for the tour at another travel agency. Their travel agency transferred them to our travel agency. At least it was sorted out and not left to nothing. And so our Korean adventure begins…
