Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival
I went to Jinhae for the Cherry Blossom festival on Friday. It was fairly easy to get their, I just had to take a train to Daegu and switch to the Jinhae train from there. Although I’ve lived in Korea for four years, I’ve never really stopped to appreciate this sight. K & I tried to go to a local one last year but cherry blossoms are fickle, in full spectacular bloom one day and gone the next.
The city itself was gorgeous, cherry blossom lined the streets, in full magnificent bloom. I did some exploring early Saturday while things were still quiet and enjoyed a nice hot bowl of BLOW-FISH SOUP (복지리) for breakfast. The soup was actually quite tasty, you could even say it was to die for. OK, bad double entendres aside the soup was really genuinely good. A nice reminder that there’s more to korean cuisine than pepper paste and kimchi. I met up with friends who arrived later in the day and we walked around taking snapshots as tourists tend to do. The day finished early for a few of us who had to get back home so we found a restaurant (the dirtiest restaurant I’ve ever seen to boot) and had some less than spectacular food. After almost an hour of searching for a taxi – it is festival time after all – we found ourselves on a bus headed home. I’ve posted the shots from the trip below courtesy of the very useful FB fetcher plugin for wordpress
- A little park with a neon tower that drew my eye.
- That neon tower, Vegas meets Korea?
- Oh, and it changes color too.
- Walking around the tower, Cherry blossoms nice at night!
- Interesting scultpures, people love to goof around and pose with them.
- Again, cherry blossoms are nice at night.
- On my way back to motel now, and I came across the main area for the festival, these …
- Cherry blossom close-up
- Early morning – not many cars are around here – yet.
- Blowfish soup – 복지리!
- Enjoying a nice bowl of 복지리
- Another close-up of the Cherry blossoms.
- I found this street by accident.
- Poser
- More pretty blossoms
- More close-ups
- Another closeup – Courtesy of ‘Macro mode’
- Another macro
- The best close-up I got.
- Leaving the street, a final view before a move on.
- Skyward view
- Horse and buggy – complete with speakers that play some pretty cheesy music!
- A famous walk in Jinhae, one of Koreas famous dramas filmed some scenes here.
- The Indian group again.
- I had to get in some shots.
- Another view of the from the other end of the walk.
- View from the ‘neon tower’ that was open for visitors in the daytime.
- A little patriotism shot.
- Overlooking Jinhae
- Overlooking Jinhae – a view of the harbor
- Another harbor view from the other side of the tower.
- Looking down on the festival
- Looking down on the tower.
- perhaps bugsy’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-gre…
- Day draws to a close, a traditional performance.
- We sat down in (maybe the dirtiest I’ve seen) korean restaraunt and saw a lady posing…
- The kid’s solo shot.
- Time to go kiddo. – I should point out that the street was largely closed out to traf…
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