Good afternoon! We are on another Incheon adventure. We are back on Ganghwa - I've taken here once
or twice but this island is so huge that I literally haven't even scratched the surface. It's
a part of Incheon. It is very west/north -northwest, as far northwest as you can get pretty much. Huge
island, beautiful, lots of gorgeous cafes, temples, places to camp - it's great. And this is part of my
collaboration with Incheon Tourism Organization so be sure to go follow them on instagram.
They have an English instagram which is amazing - so many hidden spots. Incheon is huge - so much
more than the airport. So anyway I'm going to go find my friend Sungyoung. We're going to be hitting
vegan spots today. We've got a restaurant, we've got a couple cafes. There are a ton more places
that we just can't hit today, we don't have enough time, so they will all be linked down below.
But let me go find Sungyoung so that we can get food because I'm really hungry and I'm - oh my gosh, okay,
Let's go to safety and Sungyoung.
Hi guys we made it to our first destination - hey so the wind was really not my friend in this take
so I'm gonna do a little voice over and tell you what past Cari was saying. So behind me is
Manisan which is the tallest mountain on Ganghwa and it is famous because Dangun - if you've heard
of that legend - he is the first king of Korea, very important person to Korea, and he went to
the top of this mountain and performed a couple like ancestral rights kind of things. It's got
a lot of like mystical things related to it. It's a very important place and it is right here
on Ganghwa so it's easy to believe that Dangun might have lived nearby which means Ganghwa is
extra special. So yeah anyway I need to go feed Sungyoung who is already at the restaurant.
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.
It's good for memory. Oh I need it.
Oh no I got the black stuff, I'm so scared.
It just tastes like a mushroom but the texture is really weird.
I'll try it. Okay.
So that was a lot of mushroom - definitely come here if you like mushrooms. I was just very happy that
I got to try a bunch that I had never seen, like I didn't know how I would have ever accessed these
or if I would have ever tried them so I'm thankful for that and the dubu was really interesting.
But there's no way that that was for two people, like that feeds an entire family! So we're leaving
some behind and we're gonna head - after we have some tea - we're gonna head to a temple
and I will see you guys there. Thanks for joining us on our mushroom journey.
Well, there's another vegan bakery. I'm gonna list everything down in the description box but
oh well - on to our next stop!
It's snowing but I can't -
it melts immediately.
Okay, we're at Jeondeungsa and I am losing my mind because i've been here before! We just took a different
entrance but now that I'm seeing this cool platform and the cafe I realized I've been
here! So I will link it down below but if you want to see what it looks like in summer, it's gorgeous.
It's beautiful in autumn and this is like 1500 years old - you can do a temple stay here,
it is surrounded by mountains, it is so serene as you can hear...
I mean, it's beautiful so I've
I'm having such strong deja vu so let's walk around - hopefully there's still some colored trees
This is just so serene - there's also a ton of English information as well. Our taxi driver is
giving us the rundown but there's also English everywhere this is so nice.
This taxi driver is just the cutest thing, oh my god.
It's so windy but we made it to our first cafe! This is,
I mean, Ganghwa is pulling all the stops right now. This cafe is especially really gorgeous
I mean any time of year, but this is a rice field so it has gorgeous like autumn or summertime
grasses going on. Tight now they just cut it for winter but I mean this view...
it's got a rooftop, but we're on a tight schedule so let's get coffee!
We have reached our last stop of the day. This is...
This is the Dolmen Bakery, it's an all vegan bakery and look at the view...
trucks.
Little info Dolmen - what is it? It is a structure built
very very very long time ago and Ganghwa actually has a ton of them - they're quite famous for it.
So there's just a lot of this kind of not prehistoric but just very very old
structures but we're gonna go into the bakery and have this lovely view while we eat our bread and
maybe get a cup of tea shall we - oh it looks like there's books, oh this is charming, okay let's go in!
Can I smell it?
I feel like every time we're together I have a video of you saying
"can I smell it?" and then you just go "no smell."
Nothing.
Thus ends our tour. We're so full. We're running to the bus station, I'll catch you
back at home, okay?!
Ah I'm finally home! So that was another little excursion to Ganghwado - yeah so funny, w,e when
we went to Jeondeungsa - totally did not remember where I was - I thought that the temple I went to was in a
totally different location and then once we got to this one area I was suddenly like "oh my god" - it
was like three years ago, anyway I'll link that above below wherever - so yeah that was another
little excursion to Incheon - relatively easy to get to, there is there are plenty of buses there. The
buses come a lot less frequently than they do in Seoul so you just kind of gotta plan ahead or
consider doing what we did which was have a taxi. It's lovely, it's a total escape from city life,
but it's, like I said, very easy to get to - I just really love it and our taxi driver was so cute,
he had been a taxi driver for 41 years on Ganghwa. He was so nice. I'm going to do a little taste test.
One of the vegan places gave us service so I'm going to try their lemon chocolate chip biscotti...
What?! I absolutely do not believe them and there's no butter in this! This
tastes like shortbread! Okay that's delicious, get their biscotti if you go to this Hee Wa Rae.
Wow, long story short, Ganghwa: really cool. There is this new kind of movement going on there
where there's a lot of these young creative people - they want to live in a calming place,
Seoul is too expensive, all this stuff, so they're really trying to grow and encourage Ganghwa tourism,
so I'm going to, like I've said 100 times, I'm going to link a bunch of other places down below -
really cool really interesting culture that is just kind of cropping up
in Ganghwa, and once again thank you to Incheon Tourism Organization for sponsoring this -check
out their instagram, they have such cool places. I don't know what more I can say about them, I
think that they do a wonderful job promoting Incheon. I'm going to defrost - the bus I was
on was a little chilly - and I will see you guys next time. If you want to know more about
Incheon or other places outside of Seoul, I have a whole playlist for you, I will link it below. I
hope you guys are all doing really well and I'll see you next time, okay, winter here we come!
I can't believe there was snow, what on earth?!
Goodbye autumn, you will be missed. All right, byeee!