0:00:37.040,0:00:44.880 Good afternoon! We are on another Incheon adventure. We are back on Ganghwa - I've taken here once 0:00:44.880,0:00:49.360 or twice but this island is so huge that I [br]literally haven't even scratched the surface. It's 0:00:49.360,0:00:57.760 a part of Incheon. It is very west/north -northwest, [br]as far northwest as you can get pretty much. Huge 0:00:57.760,0:01:06.240 island, beautiful, lots of gorgeous cafes, temples, [br]places to camp - it's great. And this is part of my 0:01:06.240,0:01:11.360 collaboration with Incheon Tourism Organization [br]so be sure to go follow them on instagram. 0:01:11.360,0:01:16.320 They have an English instagram which is amazing - [br]so many hidden spots. Incheon is huge - so much 0:01:16.320,0:01:21.200 more than the airport. So anyway I'm going to go [br]find my friend Sungyoung. We're going to be hitting 0:01:21.200,0:01:26.320 vegan spots today. We've got a restaurant, we've [br]got a couple cafes. There are a ton more places 0:01:26.320,0:01:31.600 that we just can't hit today, we don't have enough [br]time, so they will all be linked down below. 0:01:31.600,0:01:38.000 But let me go find Sungyoung so that we can get food [br]because I'm really hungry and I'm - oh my gosh, okay, 0:01:39.252,0:01:41.692 Let's go to safety and Sungyoung. 0:01:47.680,0:01:54.480 Hi guys we made it to our first destination - hey [br]so the wind was really not my friend in this take 0:01:54.480,0:02:00.160 so I'm gonna do a little voice over and tell [br]you what past Cari was saying. So behind me is 0:02:00.160,0:02:08.320 Manisan which is the tallest mountain on Ganghwa [br]and it is famous because Dangun - if you've heard 0:02:08.320,0:02:17.520 of that legend - he is the first king of Korea, [br]very important person to Korea, and he went to 0:02:17.520,0:02:23.280 the top of this mountain and performed a couple [br]like ancestral rights kind of things. It's got 0:02:23.280,0:02:31.520 a lot of like mystical things related to it. [br]It's a very important place and it is right here 0:02:31.520,0:02:38.480 on Ganghwa so it's easy to believe that Dangun [br]might have lived nearby which means Ganghwa is 0:02:38.480,0:02:46.640 extra special. So yeah anyway I need to go [br]feed Sungyoung who is already at the restaurant. 0:02:46.640,0:03:03.840 We're gonna eat a ton of mushrooms as you're going [br]to see - prepare your eyes, it's a lot. So here we go. 0:03:15.854,0:03:17.840 It's good for memory.[br]Oh I need it. 0:04:11.440,0:04:16.400 Oh no I got the black stuff, I'm so scared. 0:04:28.000,0:04:33.238 It just tastes like a mushroom [br]but the texture is really weird. 0:04:33.238,0:04:36.000 I'll try it.[br]Okay. 0:04:45.920,0:04:53.120 So that was a lot of mushroom - definitely come here [br]if you like mushrooms. I was just very happy that 0:04:53.120,0:04:58.720 I got to try a bunch that I had never seen, like I [br]didn't know how I would have ever accessed these 0:04:58.720,0:05:04.960 or if I would have ever tried them so I'm thankful [br]for that and the dubu was really interesting. 0:05:06.080,0:05:11.360 But there's no way that that was for two people, [br]like that feeds an entire family! So we're leaving 0:05:11.360,0:05:16.880 some behind and we're gonna head - after we [br]have some tea - we're gonna head to a temple 0:05:17.520,0:05:23.840 and I will see you guys there. Thanks [br]for joining us on our mushroom journey. 0:06:01.600,0:06:06.560 Well, there's another vegan bakery. I'm gonna [br]list everything down in the description box but 0:06:08.480,0:06:12.480 oh well - on to our next stop! 0:06:17.840,0:06:19.840 It's snowing but I can't - 0:06:22.000,0:06:33.840 it melts immediately. 0:07:09.452,0:07:16.560 Okay, we're at Jeondeungsa and I am losing my mind because i've been here before! We just took a different 0:07:16.560,0:07:21.840 entrance but now that I'm seeing this cool [br]platform and the cafe I realized I've been 0:07:21.840,0:07:26.160 here! So I will link it down below but if you want [br]to see what it looks like in summer, it's gorgeous. 0:07:26.160,0:07:32.960 It's beautiful in autumn and this is like [br]1500 years old - you can do a temple stay here, 0:07:33.520,0:07:37.275 it is surrounded by mountains, it is so serene [br]as you can hear... 0:07:39.127,0:07:42.355 I mean, it's beautiful so I've 0:07:42.480,0:07:51.857 I'm having such strong deja vu so let's walk [br]around - hopefully there's still some colored trees 0:08:59.600,0:09:09.040 This is just so serene - there's also a ton of [br]English information as well. Our taxi driver is 0:09:09.040,0:09:15.482 giving us the rundown but there's [br]also English everywhere this is so nice. 0:09:40.320,0:09:44.408 This taxi driver is just [br]the cutest thing, oh my god. 0:10:19.319,0:10:22.080 It's so windy [br]but we made it to our first cafe! This is, 0:10:22.080,0:10:29.200 I mean, Ganghwa is pulling all the stops right [br]now. This cafe is especially really gorgeous 0:10:29.200,0:10:37.120 I mean any time of year, but this is a rice field [br]so it has gorgeous like autumn or summertime 0:10:37.120,0:10:41.360 grasses going on. Tight now they just [br]cut it for winter but I mean this view... 0:10:41.360,0:10:45.840 it's got a rooftop, but we're on a [br]tight schedule so let's get coffee! 0:12:34.640,0:12:37.840 We have reached our last stop of the day. This is... 0:12:39.200,0:12:43.440 This is the Dolmen Bakery, it's an [br]all vegan bakery and look at the view... 0:12:46.080,0:12:47.393 trucks. 0:12:47.393,0:12:52.720 Little info Dolmen - what [br]is it? It is a structure built 0:12:52.895,0:12:58.400 very very very long time ago and Ganghwa actually [br]has a ton of them - they're quite famous for it. 0:12:58.400,0:13:03.280 So there's just a lot of this kind of [br]not prehistoric but just very very old 0:13:03.280,0:13:08.320 structures but we're gonna go into the bakery and [br]have this lovely view while we eat our bread and 0:13:08.320,0:13:14.082 maybe get a cup of tea shall we - oh it looks like [br]there's books, oh this is charming, okay let's go in! 0:14:22.648,0:14:24.307 Can I smell it? 0:14:30.240,0:14:33.600 I feel like every time we're [br]together I have a video of you saying 0:14:33.600,0:14:37.126 "can I smell it?" and then you just go "no smell." 0:14:40.960,0:14:42.513 Nothing. 0:15:12.000,0:15:17.280 Thus ends our tour. We're so full. We're [br]running to the bus station, I'll catch you 0:15:18.400,0:15:20.400 back at home, okay?! 0:15:41.360,0:15:51.040 Ah I'm finally home! So that was another little [br]excursion to Ganghwado - yeah so funny, w,e when 0:15:51.040,0:15:57.440 we went to Jeondeungsa - totally did not remember where [br]I was - I thought that the temple I went to was in a 0:15:57.440,0:16:03.760 totally different location and then once we got [br]to this one area I was suddenly like "oh my god" - it 0:16:03.760,0:16:10.960 was like three years ago, anyway I'll link that [br]above below wherever - so yeah that was another 0:16:10.960,0:16:19.040 little excursion to Incheon - relatively easy to get [br]to, there is there are plenty of buses there. The 0:16:19.040,0:16:26.640 buses come a lot less frequently than they do in [br]Seoul so you just kind of gotta plan ahead or 0:16:26.640,0:16:33.440 consider doing what we did which was have a taxi. [br]It's lovely, it's a total escape from city life, 0:16:33.440,0:16:38.560 but it's, like I said, very easy to get to - I just [br]really love it and our taxi driver was so cute, 0:16:38.560,0:16:47.600 he had been a taxi driver for 41 years on Ganghwa. He [br]was so nice. I'm going to do a little taste test. 0:16:47.600,0:16:53.520 One of the vegan places gave us service so I'm [br]going to try their lemon chocolate chip biscotti... 0:16:57.280,0:17:01.200 What?! I absolutely do not believe them [br]and there's no butter in this! This 0:17:01.200,0:17:08.000 tastes like shortbread! Okay that's delicious, [br]get their biscotti if you go to this Hee Wa Rae. 0:17:08.640,0:17:16.000 Wow, long story short, Ganghwa: really cool. There [br]is this new kind of movement going on there 0:17:16.000,0:17:21.680 where there's a lot of these young creative [br]people - they want to live in a calming place, 0:17:21.680,0:17:30.400 Seoul is too expensive, all this stuff, so they're [br]really trying to grow and encourage Ganghwa tourism, 0:17:30.400,0:17:36.160 so I'm going to, like I've said 100 times, I'm [br]going to link a bunch of other places down below - 0:17:36.160,0:17:40.160 really cool really interesting culture [br]that is just kind of cropping up 0:17:40.160,0:17:45.920 in Ganghwa, and once again thank you to Incheon [br]Tourism Organization for sponsoring this -check 0:17:45.920,0:17:51.360 out their instagram, they have such cool places. I don't know what more I can say about them, I 0:17:51.360,0:17:58.000 think that they do a wonderful job promoting [br]Incheon. I'm going to defrost - the bus I was 0:17:58.000,0:18:03.280 on was a little chilly - and I will see you [br]guys next time. If you want to know more about 0:18:03.280,0:18:08.560 Incheon or other places outside of Seoul, I have [br]a whole playlist for you, I will link it below. I 0:18:08.560,0:18:15.200 hope you guys are all doing really well and I'll see you next time, okay, winter here we come! 0:18:15.200,0:18:17.174 I can't believe there was snow, what on earth?! 0:18:17.174,0:18:20.655 Goodbye autumn, you will be missed. All right, byeee!