Let’s go “Cheongdo”

I am going to Gyeongbuk province where is the one of the great places as named “Cheongdo” today.

It is connected to the national transportation grid by the Gyeongbu Line railroad and the Daegu-Busan Expressway.

The street looks very quiet and clean. The weather was little blur but not cold.

The signs guide visitors at places.
 

I saw some Buddhist monk in the field. They were working on a farm.

There are 260 Buddhist monks this area. Somebody told me.

Here is Unmun-sa temple’s sign.
 

Unmun-sa Temple is one of Korea's major temples and it is situated on Tiger Mountain.

This is the gate of Unmun-sa.This is the inside of view. The temple was quiet and peaceful.

Some temple was under construction.

There is weeping fine tree. This tree was designate as a natural monument 180.

Little pine tree is so pretty. Isn’t it?

This is about Weeping red pine tree.

 This bell called “ Chungdong bell” It’s huge.

 Very peaceful and make me feel quiet. 

 Look, there are Buddhist monks.

They chanted a Buddhist prayer. I didn’t understand what they were saying, but I am sure something good wish everyone~

Wow , This is very big and splendid statue of the Buddha.

This colorful roof was so beautiful .

These are monk’s shoes.

Beautiful garden~

This is souvenir shop. There was lots of stuff that I have never seen before.

I could see Buddhist rosary and key holder. It was interesting.

Spring is coming. I am sure that if the weather is warm there will be lots of flower and trees as well.

It’s going to be nice ~

I choose the restaurant where looks the oldest one. There were many fish restaurants.


There was very special menu it called Bing fish. And it is fried. People say this location is the best for this fish.

Here is the restaurant’s table and chair. It looks bungalow.~

This is inside of restaurant. It was so like a KOREA…. Which is nice and beautiful.


We ordered fish stew.. um… It was spicy but soup was very good.

This is side dishes. All the vegetable and Kimchi was so delicious. 

This is spring parsley. A taste was very special.

This is fish stew. It was very good!! But hot! Haha.


After lunch we went Cheongdo Wine Tunnel, which is basically a wine cellar built into an abandoned railway tunnel.

Here is also famous for TV drams shooting spot.

The wine made and sold at the wine tunnel is not from grapes, but persimmons.

The manager told me 90% of the persimmons grown in Korea are from Cheongdo and there are trees bearing the fruit all over the city.

This picture is the inside of the tunnel. There is pretty light and persimmon scent~~ 

It is funny photo zone.

This is wine café.

Here, Gam wine is made of a local produce, Cheongdo flat seedless persimmons, and is a wine that has the full aroma, taste, and nutrition of fresh persimmons.



The manager told me that no matter which season, country, many customer visit here to taste this wine all year. I could learn how to storage, how to ripen to look exhibition.

It’s very nice to go out with date. The entire place was very romantic.

 This wine does not add any alcohol — it is made from 100% persimmon which is fermented with a special enzyme and is ripened for more than a year.

Here was very quaint and romantic little town with frosty permission trees all over the place.  

The light was so fantastic. Even in the day, it was like a night.


Why don’t you try a new world wine and peaceful place in Gyeongbuk cheongdo?

MUN GYEONG SAE JAE PROVINCIAL PARK

I am very excited that on the first day with a gentle start along a wide path that passed through the calmed Valley.

I am starting to travel Mun-Gyeong!!

In our heads, a fresh breeze was blowing.

I could feel summer is going way and autumn is just round a corner because of the air.

Arriving at the Mun-Gyeong!

We were just in time to make the half day tour for Mun-Gyeong Provincial Park.

Here is the museum of old roads at the entrance of park.

I was surprised that the building looks great and neat externally.

I found a valley pass through the museum of old roads.

The valley is truly amazing- beautiful, calm filled with green color and even a few flowers.

This is Korea’s traditional house, it called thatched house cottage.

I was very interesting.

It reminds me my childhood’s cottage back in my country.

This picture is the first gate to pass examination in highest score to be a high-ranking government official.

The building was a magnificent.

We worked and saw much pretty scenery that was filled with shrines for different things.

It was very interesting.

Then we proceeded on up more and more hills.

I must also mention that while we are so excited to see the mineral spring and are taking pictures of the area all the Korean people are taking pictures of us.

We are out in the country now and probably some of the first foreigners they have ever seen.

They are pretty bold about taking the pictures too.

They'll stop right in front of you and shoot the picture.

Walking in the middle of the road, we found mineral spring; called Young-Choo mineral spring.

We drank the water, it taste so fresh and cool.

I put water into my bottle.

I also found a fish which it can alive only in pure water.

These pure water and little fish make me feel very peaceful for a while.

Here is second gate!!

The size was smaller than first gate, When I go through the gate I feel like I already pass the examination~

During descending the road, we visited KBS studio.

The studio was just like the past Korea’s image.

We get to the every corner, take more pictures.

They shooting some kind of Korean history drama just in time we watched and take more pictures.

Very interesting!

Next, we went to the hot spring.

Everyone said it’s really popular!

In a while we could find hot spring.

We got in to the spring.

Wow, It was pretty huge and clean, and something different compare to normal Korea public bath.

The scent of water and color was also different.

After spring water, we got in the car to head rail bike which is the last itinerary.

It took about just few minutes to get Jim-Nam station. (This station is dead now.)

There are a lots of people wants to ride rail-bike when we got there.

I took a picture myself and with some of Korean together too.

The rail-bike was very easy to paddle and a refreshing breeze came blowing to my face pleasantly.

It was so fun.

During the riding, the sun was going down slowly.

I've discovered that getting places and back is as much of an adventure as the sightseeing.