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This week, I visited Pohang city with my friend Minhee.

I did not hear about Pohang that much so I googled it.

Pohang is famous for beautiful natural and tourist attractions.

Loot at this weather!

The weather was just perfect. It was raining until this early morning.

But the heaven was so kind as to help me!

I head for Chunryeong mountain and Naeyeon mountatin velley.

Here is the park area an entry to a Bogyeongsa.

We parked a car here and had to walk to the place.

A parking fee was 2000 won.

I could see many mountain climber.

Wow~ Korean loves to climb the mountain!!

In order to get in Bogyeongsa, we paid entrance fee.

It is 2500won.

The woods were dense with large trees.

I breathed deeply, drawing in the fresh mountain air.

Here is the Bogyeongsa's main entrance.

A crape myrtle were in full bloom all over the entrance.

I drank a water from here and hear the sound of Buddhist scriptures.

And bird sound.

Those sounds makes me restful.

There is some art exhibition in the temple.

I saw the Dharma artwork.

They also sell Buddhism accessories.

Here is the Bogyeongsa's main temple ( Daewong-geon).

It was pretty small compare to other temple.

There are lot of woman who pray very seriously.

I did not know what is about but I guess it is for family.

I was very impressive.

I prayed for everyone in my family will be health and happy!!

The ancient Bogyeongsa Temple is located on this mountain, as are numerous beautiful waterfalls. If you reach Gwaneum Falls after passing by Ssangsaeng Falls, Sambo Falls, Boyeon Falls, and Jamyong Falls, you will find Gwaneum Cave.

After continuing over a viaduct, you will finally come across Yeonsan Falls,
the most magnificent and splendid waterfall among the 12 on Mt. Naeyeonsan.

With its pristine waters and surrounding pine forest,
many visitors have fallen in love with Yeonsan Falls.

I found Naeyeon mountain valley.

The water of the valley was clear enough for fish to live in.

This guy was looking for something.

Here, for walking trail was very neat and flat.

I thought I can walk with my slippers.

I was walking 20 minutes more, I saw beautiful fall name called Sangseng fall.

The cool water of the lake invited me to swim.

The fall called twin fall.

Because of same shape and looks like a twin~

Nice view~isn't it?

This is Gwan-um fall.

The fall was splendid beyond all description.

Pass this bridge, I could see Naeyeon fall!

Wow... There was no word to express this awesome view.

Enjoy the pictures.

Today, I was planning just light walking. So I just get to Naeyeon fall and came back.

But there are many different way if you want to walk or hike.

Maybe next time?

I started to hungry and I moved to Jookdo market.

Jookdo market is the biggest traditional market in Pohang.

There are more than 1200 shops for selling seafoods.

Loads of things to see and eat!!

We decide to eat Pohang water sashimi.

But different kind of one.

With Soup!!

We were waiting to have this food, This must be good I thought.

This water sashimi price was 12000 won.

I am not really sashimi person though this was pretty good.
There were soup with raw fish and bean paste stew too.

It was little spicy.

After lunch I went to Gyeongbuk arboretum.

The arboretum has theme parks with flowers of the four season.

The arboretum is located 630m above the sea level with area of 3222ha.

It is the second biggest arboretum following France's Basili arboretum (6070ha).

It is also 2.8 times bigger than previously biggest arboretum (1150ha) in Korea located in Pocheon.

The arboretum containing tree exhibition hall, botanic garden, greenhouse, pond, and grass square has 179,226 trees, grass and flowers of 1510 kinds.

In September 2001, the arboretum has opened with the area of 55ha with greenhouse, exhibition hall, grass square, 7 managing facilities and 3 ponds.

However, two extension works increased its size.

I am little sad that the picture doesn't show enough how great it is...

There are number of noted mountains in the region so the arboretum is expected
to become a famous tourist attraction.

Here is open 10 to 6 from March to October.

I got there too late so couldn't see much of inside.

The province is planning to divide the arboretum into 24 fields depending
on the characteristics of the plants and utilize it as a place for research and study.

The province is also planning to make further investment of 10 billion won
to construct a memory forest by laying ashes of the dead at the tree bottom.