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Travel Blogs from Gwangju
Boseong Green Tea Fields
... This is called plantation one and there is a second plantation a few kms away although thats on flat ground and not as scenic. Also a short drive away is Yulpo beach where you can enjoy the seafront or find accomodation if you want to spend the ...
Boseong Green Tea Museum
... tried the green tea ice cream cones for 2000w ($1.75). Nearby was a tea making workshop but it was closed so we went back to the other side of the parking lot to enter the tea fields (see next entry). ...
Gwangju 70/80 Festival and Gossaum Nouri Festival
... There was also a large section showing various "antiques" such as typewriters, rotary phones, brick cell phones, vinyl record players, and boomboxes. Its amazing how these things were once considered top of the line and now are obsolete. It was truly fascinating to see how times have changed and still continue to change.
In addition to the 70/80 Festival, there was also another ...
Teaültetvényen / Boseong green tea plant
... a local bus was about to leave to the 녹차팥. Getting off the bus I enjoyed the company of 3 really nice Korean guys - we've visited together the tea plantation and - the still very empty - Yulpo beach. Thanks for the company, guys! :-) Calling it a day and feeling extremely sleepy I passed on the green tea spa experience and came back to Seoul with the afternoon ...
A day trip to Gwangju
... take power and impose Marshall law on the country - it later turned out that he was the one who had the president assassinated in the first place. People started to protest this, which lead to a crack down by the army, and in Gwangju especially this got really rough. The army went in and started arresting pretty much any student or young person that might be of any kind of threat - this angered the people which lead to more marching and protesting, which lead to more ...