TGIF

Busan has possibly been our greatest failure when it comes to doing/seeing anything local, so we made an effort to change that today, our last full day in the city. 

I had to take a picture of this picture of where we went, as it would have required a horrendous journey to get far enough away from Shinsegae to get it all in the frame. 

Shinsegae Centum City is colossal. 14 plus 2 basement levels are connected directly to the subway station, in addition to a subterainian cinema complex and numerous other large department stores. We went looking for the beer festival that was suppose to be occurring, without luck. 

What we found on the 10th floor was and outdoor children's playground and zoo. 

Numerous dinosaurs lined the area, leading up to a great view off the end of the park. 

We returned to the hostel for an extended rest, before hitting up the beach for a midnight swim! Those we had spoken too earlier all said it was too cold now to do so. They obviously don't know a) how cold NZ is, or b) we had been drinking, and are crazy foreigners. We were mildly worried about the cops turning up, given as there was a sign that said "Swimming something". My Korean isn't quite good enough to know exactly what. 

Come 2am, it was off to Thursday Party bar one last time for darts and drinks. John thought he had me dead to rights, before I shocked us both with a hat trick on my final round to win the game. John's win rate remains at about 1 to 5 so far. 

Off for a feed at 4am, but to our dismay, the chicken joints had closed kitchen! Some pork and rice soup was our only reprieve, before heading back to the hostel, ending our last night in Busan. The nearest club had also closed shop, much to my relief. 

We really ought to have accomplished more here, but that just means we'll have something left to do next year. 

Checkout is in 5hrs. Alarms are set. Tomorrow, we attack Seoul, yet again.