The festival itself was really fun. In Korea you can drink in public and there are convenience stores selling cans of beer on almost every street corner. This means we drank quiet a bit of beer while wandering around looking at the cherry blossoms. We also spent a lot of time looking at Korean's looking at cherry blossoms, as there were people everywhere "enjoying the romance".
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| The Bridge, apparently this is the most romantic spot at the festival. Although, I wouldn't know because I couldn't get close enough. |
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| More photos of other people at the bridge |
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| As close as we could get to the romantic bridge |
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| Makgeolli (Korean Rice Wine) |
The trouble started when we decided it was time to go home. We had to get back to a town (Masan) 20 minutes away to catch the bus home to Daegu. All of the public buses to Masan were full and weren't even stopping and there were no available taxis. After walking around for about an hour and 1/2 we finally started finding free taxis but they wouldn't take us to Masan because (we had a conversation in Korean and English, so this is only our interpretation) the traffic was so bad that the 20 minutes trip was taking over an hour. We headed to to train station in the hope that we could get a train anywhere and then get back to Daegu from there. The last train of the day had already left!
We decided it was time to break for dinner. After dinner we were finally able to get a taxi, but just missed the 9:30 bus from Masan to Daegu. The next bus wasn't until 11pm. Finally, 7 hours after we decided to leave the festival we were home, and there were taxi's everywhere! What took 2 hours on the way there took 7 hours on the way home!
Overall the Cherry Blossom Festival was fun, but not worth the 7 hour journey :-)
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