Tea Run
Actually, this was an active day trip. with frequent stops and tight schedules. All that was missing was the sun for most of the day and an airplane to bypass the evening traffic returning to Busan.
Starting from Boseong to breathe in the tea-scented air and climb the terraced hill, we bought green tea. Oddly enough, my wife and I were only one of two customers for tea. Mostly, mothers bought tea-flavored candy, treats, and ice cream for the kids. The green tea is excellent, BTW. Then it was on to an organic farm to pick strawberries. After lunch at Nakan Folk Village we toured what my wife called «Korea's Williamsburg». Laypeople can sleep for a night within this actual village where the venue workers actually live. Note: the brown stuff is bondaegi (boiled silkworm larvae). They're quite good, but very rich-flavored.
Lastly, we went to Sonam Temple, one of the oldest-standing Buddhist temples to survive the Japanese invasion of the 17th Century.
I told my wife, instead of planning trips around battlefields (obviously not my appealing to my wife) we should tour tea plantations. And, if there's a battlefield nearby, so much the better!
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