Tips for tourists

COEX Aquarium

How to get there: Samseong subway station, exit 6. It's located in the enormous COEX building. It hosts exhibitions and a shopping mall. It's easier to walk down the street than to wander through the complex itself. Here's the route: exit the subway from exit 6 and keep going straight until you reach the end of the enormous COEX building. Here's where you can turn left and enter.


Opening hours: from 10 to 20

Website: HERE

How much time does it take: a couple of hours

The price of the issue: 22,000 KRW ($20). Not cheap.

Personal impressions: An average experience, but a very good and new aquarium. Nothing spectacular; the aquarium in St. Petersburg is much better. But it's still worth a visit.

From the unusual: This is the first time I've seen sea cows. They're extremely funny animals.


I was also impressed by the tiny aquarium with fish with legs. Apparently some kind of transitional form between a lizard and a fish. Grandpa Darwin would have been delighted.



Overall, the aquarium has everything in place: tropical fish, piranhas, an octopus, a huge aquarium with sharks and rays, equipped with a tunnel and a moving walkway.








The otters that the girl was feeding at the time


Another unusual thing: there is a hall with installations like these.





You can stick your hand in the water, like the infamous Greek, and the fish will eat off what they consider excess skin from your fingers. It tickles.


Two hours flew by. There are cafes right there in the mall where you can get an inexpensive lunch. Not a food court, but rather individual cafes.

Source: travel.ru

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