Lindsays Adventures: Chusok Holiday in the "Vegas of Korea"!

So one of the big holidays here is Chusok. So me and Nikki needed to get outta Suji for a couple days. We meant to head to the south of Korea to visit her friend, but there were ZERO seats available on the train. So we were in the train station and picked some random place in Korea from the Lonely Planet. We decided on what they described as the "Las Vegas of South Korea"! Well, it wasn't Vegas, but we did have fun. The first day there we walked around town a bit, then went to the mud center, for a facial. Supposedly the mud there in really good for your skin. We were paying for the facial, and then had to pay for something else, what we realized was an entrance fee for something. I said to Nikki "Ahh I think we're getting more than we bargained for!" And did we ever! We went upstairs and the woman told us to take off all our clothes!! "ALL! ALL!" And pointed us to the public baths!!!! So off we went with our little hand towels to the public baths(just for women!) We painted ourselves with mud, soaked in the mud baths, sea salt baths, hot baths and in the sauna. I tell ya, it was a bonding experience!! Haha. Not sure if I'd make it a regualar thing, but it was a good experience!

That night we met a Korean guy who we hung out with. Went for dinner and he ordered a big soup that cooks in front of you. Hand an interesting conversation with the help of our phrase book. Did lots of drinking that night. Went to the beach and shot off roman candles and rode ATV's!! Crazy, but super fun. The next day we took a ferry to an island about an hour away called Sapsido. Was cloudy out but a little sun came out now and then. Spent the day walking around the island and taking pictures. Then decided to sit and enjoy some beers and look at the view. It was a very relaxing day. That night we had dinner and a quiet night.

The next day we went into the busier part of the city, away from the beach(since it wasnt sunny anyways). Did some shopping and wandered the markets. That night was another quiet night in. And then it was home again to Suji on the train the next morning. The trains here are very comfortable and pretty affordable, so we will be sure to use them again. Everyone thought we were pretty brave to go off on our own like that already. I thought we did pretty damd good for not knowing any Korean!! Although we did make some calls to our friend John who speaks Korean once or twice! Thanks John!

So heres some pics of our trip to Daecheon Beach! Enjoy. More pics to come tomorrow!

One day we took the ferry over to a little island for the day.

On the ferry to the island

Views of the beach

Do you see the crab??

Views from around the is island, on the way back to the ferry.

Run down house

Clay pots

Resturaunt

Clay pots

Niki

One of the local beers, Cass, otherwise known as C-Ass!!

Me! on the patio drinkin beers and waiting for the ferry. Found out we had to go to the other end of the island to catch the ferry back. Good thing the lady at the resturaunt told us that!