Nearly two weeks ago now was the Chuseok holiday in Korea. Chuseok translates roughly to "Harvest Moon Festival." It is essentially Korean Thanksgiving, a holiday which is meant to be spent with family. Chuseok is celebrated on the 14th, 15th, and 16th days of the 8th month of the lunar calendar during the full moon. This year, those days happened to fall on a Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Although we Westerners in Korea don't celebrate Chuseok in the traditional Korean way, we do celebrate the fact that we don't have to go to work during this time. And this is why three friends and I spent our Chuseok on Korea's holiday island, Jejudo. We covered a lot of ground on our brief vacation, and rather than talking at length about it, I'm going to allow the pictures to do most of the speaking.
We visited some cliffs along the shore that reminded both me and Shell, my Irish friend, of the West coast of Ireland.
We visited loads of pretty waterfalls...
We sat on the rooftop of our hostel and took in the view with a bottle of soju...
...before going to a sex museum...
The following day we went to a trick art museum...
And a teddy bear museum...
Then relaxed on a rooftop while sipping drinks at sunset...
Those pics at the trick art museum are super cool. The only one I can't figure out is the one with you "upside down." Are you laying on your side?
ReplyDeleteYep, I'm lying on my side...Everything was painted onto the walls/floor sideways, and when you take the picture, you just rotate it 90 degrees! It was a fun day, but one heck of an annoyance trying to elbow your way into a photo op...
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