South Korea-Jeonju-Maisan Provincial Park-Tapsa Temple(Part1)

After a nice breakfast at the hotel, we visited Maisan Provincial Park in Jeonju where its two mountain peaks resemble the ears of a horse when view at a distance.

The arch with the Chinese characters read from right to left said "horse ear mountain temple" (translated).

This is the map of the temple. Click on the photo to enlarge where you can see the red circle that is where we walked from the carpark to the temple at the foot of the two mountain peaks. It was a long walk.

As we walked we could see many such stalls selling BBQ pork ribs.

Some were selling these wild birds.

We came across the korean dog. It is known as the Jindo Dog.

I could not resist taking photo of the drum at the temple. The drum was beautiful with a very beautiful dragon drawn on it.

We enjoyed the long walk as we saw many beautiful things along the way. We even spotted some ice at the side of the mountains. It was so cold in here.

This is halfway the long walk. You could guess it, my sister and me were the last one in our group...lol.

At last, we finally reached the bottom of the mountain peaks. There is the beautiful temple.

I took this photo from the top of the temple.

Looked at the steps made from the stones.

This is fresh water from the mountain.

South Korea, Muju

Muju Tirol Resort is a very beautiful Hotel Resort. It was an Austrian owned resort. We had a very nice and comfortable sleep in here.

We had our dinner and breakfast in the hotel resort, the food were so yummy. You can view the photos in my food blog.

This is a very traditional and old (300 yrs) bed on display at the hotel lobby.

The ski facilities behind the hotel had been closed cause spring is coming and the snow is melting.

South Korea-Sangsoo Herb Land

We had a guided tour at Sangsoo Herb Land, Asia's largest herb garden, which features more than 1000 different varieties of herbs in a garden.

This is a chair rock. It was a rock that looked like a chair that how's it got its name.

And behind the herb garden was Doryong waterfall. It was so cold during winter that the waterfall had turned into ice. Although it is spring now but the ice had not melted.

South Korea-Everland Resort-Four Seasons Garden

This is the Four Seasons Garden in Everland Resort, South Korea.
This is a very beautiful garden. The flowers are all so colourful and beautiful.

We had lunch at Everland Resort, you can view the photos of the food in my food blog.

South Korea-Everland Resort-Four Seasons Garden

This is where the Four Seasons Garden is in Everland Resort.

There were many displays of Roman Statues.

It is interesting to take photoshot of the statue back....lol. The front of the statue is not clearly visible because of the waterfall.

Another shot of the back of a statue.

South Korea-Animal Wonder World

At Everland Resort, there was an educational mini zoo which they called Animal Wonder World where young kids can learn about the animals up close.

South Korea-Everland Resort-Safari World

The Safari World In Everland Resort, South Korea, was the only safari complex in the world where lions and tigers co exist.

One can either take the special jeep or bus to tour the safari and watch the animals up close.

The bears are cute and they could perform special tricks like praying and waving goodbye.

The Lion and Lioness were huge and they make a perfect pair.

White tigers

This is a liger. It was a cross between a male lion and a female tiger.

South Korea-Everland Resort

Some of you might have guessed from the brochures in the photo of my previous posts that I had planned to visit either Japan, Korea or Taiwan. Yes, I just returned from South Korea and had a fantastic time there. It was so cold even though it was spring in South Korea.

We experienced temperatures as low as 2 degrees celsius and night time it is almost impossible to walk in the streets and we ended up most of the time hiding in shops enjoying the heaters.

We took Korean Airlines to Seoul, South Korea. The trip was smooth without much turbulence. But the inflight facilities are terrible compared with Singapore Airlines (my favourite airline). To catch a movie, one need to look at the front screen or the monitor above our head. As we took the night flight, we had breakfast in the plane. For photo of the airline food, click here .

On arrival, we went straight to the Everland Resort Theme Park. The park was huge and there were many cute characters and the place was so beautiful.



I think this cleaner in the resort looked so cute. He had wings and roller skates.



Souvenirs shops are aplenty in the theme park.

The park was so huge, we need to travel by cable car to certain parts of the park.







I took mainly the family rides, I dont think my heart is strong enough for those thrill rides...lol.

I will post more photos in later posts. Hope you enjoy the above photos.

NATAS FAIR (FEB 2008)

It is the time of the year again where there is a travel fair in singapore called Natas Fair. Collecting many brochures but not sure where should I head to this year....lol. Can you guess where I would like to travel? Answer will be when I actually travel to that country and posted photos of them here...hehehe.