If there's one area Korea takes first place in, hands down, it's festivals. They have festivals for
everything, and it all really kicks off in spring. A few weekends ago, Lorna and I explored the island of Jindo, where they had the Jindo Sea Parting Festival (진도 신비의바닷길축제)--
you can read about our experience here! Slowly but surely, over the last three weeks flowers have begun to bloom. First were the bright yellow tangles of forsythia, followed by budding cherry blossoms. Once the cherry blossoms started blooming, bright purple azaleas started slowly spreading throughout the mountains too.
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| Cherry blossoms beginning to bloom. |
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| A mountain-top azalea bush. |
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| Red cherry blossoms? Not sure, but it was among a row of pink ones! |
This weekend, there were two big festivals: one on Yeongchwisan (영취산), a mountain in Yeosu (여수); and another up in the mountains of Gyeongsangnamdo's (경상남도) Hadong (하동) county, in a small town called Hwagae (화개). Yeosu was our first stop, as we had friends there to meet up with Saturday evening after the flower viewing.
