Korea: Nambu Market, performance, a real bed, French fries (Day 20)

Monday, 1 June 2015:

Today we told our host of the Hannok we didn't wanna stay for another night and decided to move out.

After a night of no sleep at all and 2 broken backs we thought that was the right thing to do.

Our Hannok home for initially 2 nights, which looks cute from the outside

but the inside was crap. Although laying on 3 futons we felt like the princess on the pea. I didn't sleep a wink. Decided to read my ebook (De Vliegeraar) after turning, turning etc

After a Korean breakfast at the Hannok, we visited the Nambu market in Jeonju. Loved it, too many pictures. We bought a pair of purple scissors to cut the meat at home.

When we visited the former Palace in town, there was a lot of activity and people walking around in traditional Korean clothes and rehearsing

former throne

stage

rice ice cream

finishing De Vliegeraar in the shade: it's over 30 degrees and too hot

yummie 

Korea: agriculture area, swim at the beach, Gochang fortress, Hannok village Jeonju (Day 19)

agricultural area on the islands north of Mokpo 

Sunday, 31 May 2015

We started with a visit to Mount Yudalsan in Mokpo, where was a big bell. It's gonna be another very warm day here.

Afterwards we travelled along the islands north of Mokpo where is a lot of agriculture. There are far more rice fields here and we saw many onions that were harvested. Less mountains than in the East and even saw cows. All cows here are kept in the stables. Poor cows. But, we did saw one herd of Frieze pedigree grazing on a tiny meadow.  

graves (a dome of grass covered soil) with a sangsok (an offering table made of stone) are seen everywhere in the fields

Because it was warm we visited a beach and took a swim in the sea. Here at the west coast in a bay the water was nice and not so cold as at the East coast (Sokcho)

Korean way of enjoying the beach. We seldom see Koreans go into the sea, when they do they keep all their clothes on and wet their feet/legs.

low tide 

Before driving to our next accommodation address we visited the stone walled Fortress in Gochang.

An old superstition, dapseong is the act of putting a stone on one's head and walking around the castle wall three times. It was believed that this would prevent one from getting disease and ensure one goes to a better place after death.

We arrived very late at our next accommodation: a traditional Korean Hannok, in the Hannok village of Jeonju. The owner wasn't there and a non-English speaking kind girl helped us to settle into our 'room' (which resembled more a shed). We got some extra futons, but still this didn't look really comfy ......

We decided to go for a bite first and explored the Hannok village. 

traditional Korean BBQ, sitting on the ground

a lot of new Hannok houses/shops