Everland

Location: Yongin, South Korea

Recommended Time Required:  3/4 to full day

Everland and Lotteworld are the two biggest and most popular amusement parks in Korea.  Everland is an easy, although lengthy, bus trip from Seoul.  Its biggest draw is the wooden roller coaster, which I have to admit is quite thrilling and a lot more stable than I imagined it would be.  When I asked my co-teacher which park he preferred he said, "Everland.  It is better."  And according to my students when I asked them what they did over the weekend or a long break, their answer was Everland more often than Lotteworld.

Entrance

Wear fancy headbands like the locals do!

Zootopia, the zoo section of Everland is quite fun if you enjoy animals as I do.  You have to line up early and have patience to wait for the safari tour where you can view a real life LIGER! (as made popular in Napoleon Dynamite)  Unfortunately, since my friend and I slept in and didn't get on the road until early afternoon, we didn't get to the park until mid-afternoon which meant our time was limited and we had to skip the long line to see the liger.  Bummer.

I guess it's OK to feed the monkeys.

White tigers

Not a liger

Kangaroos

In all honesty, the main ride is the wooden roller coaster.  There were a couple other small roller coasters and other attractions (i.e. haunted house) and the park is quite big, but I thought it lacked in the amount of adult rides.  The Caribbean Bay water park is only open in the summer.

Everland really requires a full day as the lines to wait for the attractions can be really long, plus the Moonlight Parade at night is quite fun to see.