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