On the way to Cheolla, we stopped by Boryeon (where the Mud Festival takes place every year) for dinner. Really great fish and so cheap!

One of the activities you can do in Jeolla is, of course mountain-climbing. This is one of the buddhist temples we found during our course.

The temple had this immense rock on the top which looked like it was going to fall at any time.

View from the top of the mountain.

Another must-see place in Jeolla are the Boseong tea plantations (more info here). Unfortunately, it was really foggy and rainy the day we went there, but it was still worth seeing.

Funny revolving tree

We could hardly see the plantations due to the heavy fog.

When you travel in the Korean countryside, where people are not so used to see foreigners, it is not uncommon that strangers ask you to take a picture with them. Sometimes you feel like a movie star.

A bridge at the trea plantations.

This place kind of reminded me of Nami Island.

Can’t help my love for bikes

Another interesting place is this dolmen site in Hwasun. I already talked about dolmens in Korea during our trip to Ganghwa Island.

As opposed to Ganghwa where there are just a few dolmens, this park is full of them, near three hundred according to the Wikipedia.

Like I said, food is also one of the reasons to visit this province, in this restaurant we had the best Korean beef I have tried.

Main gate of the restaurant. Unfortunately I forgot its name, but it is very close to the dolmen site, and quite popular, so if you ask for a Korean beef restaurant near, they will probably send you here.

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It seems like Spain is getting cooler and cooler nowadays in Korea. More and more people interested in learning Spanish, more academies, more Spanish restaurants, more Koreans traveling to Spain, even flamenco is starting to get popular, and after his success in other Asian countries like Japan, it is very rapidly gaining popularity here. The last thing related to Spain that I have seen here is this new promotion by Domino’s Pizza Korea, which has recently launched a promotion with the name “Hola Spain”.

This advertising campaign is one of the most aggressive that I have seen here in Korea, using the beautiful Korean actress Ye-Seul Han, with commercials on TV, leaflets, and even completely changing Domino’s Korean website.

Domino’s Pizza Korean website screen capture.

The leaflet that I got delivered to my home.

As you can imagine, I couldn’t resist trying a “Spanish pizza” in Korea… I was expecting a pizza tasting like cured ham, chorizo, sardine… even gazpacho flavor would have been quite cool. But the truth is I didn’t find anything like that. The ingredients: piri-piri sauce, spicy chichen, olives, bell pepper, pineaple and tomato sauce… so spicy that I could just have a couple of bites…

…luckily enough, some smiley fries were there just to make my day

Notice: If you are in Korea and want to try this pizza, you better hurry, the promotion finishes this July 19th. I hope you are good at spicy food. I’m not that lucky.

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Masisseoyo!

That’s what we had for lunch today. Here’s a picture of the group:

From left to right: Ciro, Faisal, Alex, and Jairo.

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