Boseong Green Tea Festival & Naganeupseong Folk Village

The weather has been fantastic the last two weeks here. Clear blue skies and warm weather makes for good site-seeing on the weekends. Left Gyeongsangnam-do on Saturday and headed west to the Jeollanam-do province for the annual green tea festival in Boseong. I was told this location produces over 80% of the green tea consumed in Korea. I wasn't too big into green tea before coming over here but it has really grown on me and is a great alternative to the insanely huge amounts of instant coffee consumed here. They even had green tea frozen yogurt, which was surprisingly VERY good.

Boseong was beautiful. No other way really to describe it but to just show the pictures.





This was taken outside of a tea shop up in the mountains.

Same location. If you look closely you can see people working in the tea fields.


Same tea shop, different view.


The rows of tea leaves were very symmetrical.







They had a bamboo forest nearby as well.


When the wind blows through the bamboo the moving stalks make very cool sounds.


The lighting inside of this area was great.





We stopped in Suncheon on the way to the tea festival at an old folk village called Naganeupseong. The entire village is enclosed by city walls that were constructed to ward off Japanese pirates. I think it may have worked, the city is still standing and I dropped by on Saturday.








I wonder what his crime was?


I wish I had more information on this gem, really. This adds a whole new level to corporal punishment.




I bought some tea at Boseong (it's really good). If anyone wants a box, let me know!