There are beautiful, colorful, diverse, living plants everywhere! Here are some that we oogled at inside the Incheon airport, which by the way is voted the best airport in the world 8 years in a row!!!!!!!! They must have some stellar airport gardeners, where can Rochelle sign up? Notice the sign "Please don't do bad thing to cacti" :)
He don't hate it!
They had a huge variety of plants and interesting landscape displays every 50 feet, including these living pillars with orchids on them!
close up of orchid
Unfortunately McDonalds didn't have ice cream,but it was soon forgotten once we spotted these bright flowers among living trees that were 50 feet high!
Best view in the house
Here are those trees growing inside the airport building, no big deal.
More unique plant displays
We got to the airport about 4 AM and had to wait for the bus to our friend, Kevin's, place to start running at 6 PM. We enjoyed just looking at the plant displays, but there is a lot of cool stuff to explore at this airport, such as a plastic ice skating rink, a "tub within a tub", and traditional korean costume dress up. We were planning to do some of these things, but our waiting time went pretty fast, the airport is huge, and we were really tired. So maybe next time we will spend the night just at the airport so we can see it all!
Another interesting contrast from UB that we noticed at the airport was while we were waiting in line to order some food. We were standing back a little bit and a Korean guy went in front of us, then said something like "oh I'm sorry, were you here first? Please order ahead of me". This is something that doesn't happen in UB.
We discovered a really great service, a 24/7 free phone hotline where you can call and talk to an interpreter in one of 18 languages and the person on the other end will talk to the Korean who is standing in front of you speaking things you can't understand. This could be extremely helpful especially for people trying to travel on their own. We didn't have a need for it but we hope to use it in the future.
"Best view in the house" had pretty flowers, but it looks as though that creepy clown was eyeing you to have a seat with him :-(
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that it looks as though your visit was an all-around good experience.