Cafe Hopping and First Snow � a vegan day on Ganghwa Island in Incheon, Korea VLOG

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!