The first weekend of October was Chuseok in Korea, which is Korean Thanksgiving. I had booked a plane ticket to Taiwan to visit my cousin that teaches English there and I was really excited to get out Korea. Well, I showed up to the airport and found out my flight was canceled and my travel agent had also canceled my ticket without my knowing, but that is story I don't need to write on here. So, I contemplated what I would do now that I wasn't going to Taiwan. Turns out some friends were heading to Gwangju for the weekend and had room for me at the pension there, I just had to find my own way there. I decided to take the bus, which was super cheap, but about 4 hours long.
When we arrived at the amazing pension Carolina played bartender, 3PM isn't too early to drink is it?
We took a walk around the area and the greenery was breathtaking.
Two ajumma's working in the rice fields while we walked.
Our first night there we BBQ'd some delicious meat that Lindsay brought. We drank some beer and soju and played some fun drinking games.
We used some stools and chairs to re-create the six of us that spent Chuseok together: Lindsay, Duncan, Me, Nicole, Nick, Carolina.
The next day we got up at a semi-decent hour and headed to the famous bamboo forest in Gwangju. The pension owners drove us to this really nice nature trail and from there directed us to the bamboo forest.
This trail was beautiful and being in fresh air and nature was great.
Along the way we came across this really beautiful park.
They had some great stone statues scattered throughout the park. This tiger one was one of my favorites.
Carolina being shouted at by some angry Koreans. Even the fox behind her is scared.
We continued on our adventure to get to the bamboo forest. All it took was crossing the pond to get to our destination.
The entrance way to the bamboo forest was littered with panda's...Seems fitting.
Carolina and I put on our best Korean poses.
Just a beautiful view inside the bamboo forest. The bamboo was huge.
There was a nice waterfall surrounded by Panda's within the forest. When we finished at the forest we did some looking around.
Carolina and I rocked these hats, but we did not buy them.
After we played with the toys and hats we decided to try to some 떡갈비 (rice meat) and bamboo rice, which is what Gwangju is famous for. The rice meat is rather expensive and we didn't find it all that enjoyable for the price, but it was nice to say we tried it. When we finished eating we bought some groceries for the night and headed back to the pension.
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