Getting there

The biggest part about this, I thought that getting to the butterfly festival was a trip, this was an adventure. We took the bullet train up to a small town, took a bus from that town to Gochang, then took another bus to get to the festival itself. Luckily, that last bus was a free shuttle for the festival! 😁

Being that it was noon at that point we needed some food. My friend is vegetarian, so we settled for kimbab (김밥) and kimchi dumplings (김치 만두). Then we were off to the festivalwith full bellys!

Gochang Green Barley Field Festival (고창 청보리밭축제)

On top of the bus being basically free and straight to the festival, there was not an entrance fee. Bonus! So we just walked straight trough and could buy as much food as we wanted!

A Little Photo Shoot 😂

This was mostly a subtle jab at the Koreans having their own photo shoots, I won't quit my day job. Lol

Koi Pond

Came down here for the food but it was basic festival food (potato sticks, corn dogs, chicken and the such) but we did find this pond.

Back to the Barley!

Food!!

Resisting the fried foods paid off because we found a little restaurant selling barley based food and products. We got some barley tea for home and ordered a barley Korean style pancake (보리파전) 😋

My friend also got some sweet barley bread and cookies for her host family. I don't have a family though and been limiting my carbs/sugar so I didn't have an interest for it.

Windmill

There was this windmill that would have been used to grind the grains back in the day. They had classical music playing out of it and made for a great point to take some shoots before we left 😁

Getting Home

Getting here was one thing, getting home was.....something else. We got the free shuttle no problem but then waiting for a bus would have been a three hour ordeal. We opted to catch a bullet train at a nearby station. This is where the problems began.

We took a taxi to get to the station which the taxi driver kept asking us if he wanted us to just go to Gwanju using his taxi. That would have costed more than double 😑 we get to the train station and he tells us the he doesn't take cards 😑 Which I see that he has a card reader there but he refuses to take it!

So we have to go to a bank because I have never encountered this, the atm wasn't accepting my friend's card. Then it wasn't accepting mine. So I kicked the damn atm and it began working. Paid the taxi driver (an extra 3 dollars because of the ride to the bank 😡) get in and we missed our train. All the while the taxi is still sitting outside because we told him when our train was to take off. Lieing bastard wanted to get paid double.... so he made us miss our train hoping we would take the taxi 😠

We waited an hour and a half for the next train. By that point it was too late to meet my friend to drink since we got to Gwangju around 9:30 and buses home end at 11. Had a great day, aside from that taxi driver.

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