Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: |
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I spent a year in a burg just over the mountain. Does that count?
Hawaii itself isn't worth it, in my opinion. I did peak in the gate and saw a stuffed animal display...some of the rattiest, bedraggled stuffed animals I've seen in a long time.
The area is beautiful, one of the prettiest I've seen in Korea. If you've got a car, stay in Bugok, pay W40,000 for a hotel/motel room, cruise around the area. The park outside Changnyoung is pretty--but wait for spring. Each hotel has a mok-yoke-tang for the hot bath experience. There are quite a few restaurants on the main street. Don't miss the life-size plastic Elvis outside one of the restaurants.
BTW, there is really only one street in town. All the hotels are along one strip. There can't be more than a thousand people AT MOST who live there. We're talking small.
Another major attraction of the area is the swamp. The part of it in downtown Youngsan is square. So are the parts of the swamp north of town. As far as I could see, the shape and the plastic bags and bottles floating in it were the big attraction.
Changnyoung has some nice stuff. A big mound of dirt that is a Chosun era refrigerator. It's downtown. On the east side of town are some ancient tombs and a museum. I walked around the tombs. It's a nice area, in the spring.
However, if you go in early March (?) you can hit the Onion Day festival in Youngsan. (It's just 10 minutes or so by car from Bugok.)
Cruisemonkey used to live in Changnyoung and Lee Bum Suk still does. PM them and ask for other good sites in the neighborhood. |
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