Gwangju, Korea

Location Description

49 photos

I guess the videos on Monica´s Flickr account will have...
That night, we slept at Monica´s aunt´s house in...
Persimmons growing on Monica´s uncle´s farm.
Monica´s aunt peeling a persimmon.
Monica in the persimmon orchard.
Monica holding a persimmon and the husband of her aunt.
Some flag on a bamboo pole in the persimmon orchard. I...
Piling back into the family Samsung to head to another...
On Monica´s aunt´s farm, they have many animals: cows,...
Here´s a pretty looking rooster strutting its stuff on...
Monica waves at some furry cows feeding from a trough.
My new ride: it has 40 horsepower, goes 12 miles an hour...
Next we decided to take a road trip to see the village...
Stage 2 of sleeping in a car.
Stage 3.
Stage 4
Stage 5
Driving down the road to Monica´s dad´s home village.
In Monica´s dad´s home village, something was being...
Apparently in recent years bee keeping has become a...
Ajashi wandering through the village.
Old woman sitting outside the house where Monica´s dad...
A really cool spider on the house that Monica´s dad grew up in.
In Monica´s dad´s village, we were given bowls of honey...
Beehives and persimmon trees in Monica´s dad´s village.
Rice paddy near Monica´s dad´s village, back out on the...
Next stop was the Wolchulsan National Park, with the...
Fields of tea being grown near Wolchulsan National Park.
More tea fields, in perfect rows. They were so perfect;...
Guard to the next temple we went to see. I forget the name.
Close up of guard to Buddhist temple near Gwangju and...
Temple whose name I forget.
Temple whose name I forget.
Monica at the temple whose name I forget. From here we...
A turtle/dragon thing holding up a monolith with Chinese...
Close up of the writing on the monolith.
Wandering around in the bamboo forest.
Monica in the bamboo forest. Neither of us were really...
Ground cover in the bamboo forest was very bright green....
The Korean version of Smokey the Bear, with his...
At this point we had put up with days of non-stop eating...
That night, we went to a Korean barbecue restaurant. ...
Hanging out at Monica´s aunt´s farm, watching the Korean...
Eventually, we had to leave as Monica´s dad had to drive...
View from the bedroom window where we slept at Monica´s...
Sometimes the choices are just too hard to make!
I still had a runny nose, so Monica bought me basically...
Monica´s truck stop breakfast on the way to Seoul. Not...
Also in the cute packaging department. Monica´s aunt...