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Your body realizes the marvelous nature before your brain does. In harmony with mountains, fields, valleys and caves, the whole village is nature's playground where even grown-ups become children again and have fun. If you are bored with same old daily routine, come to Handeumi," - travel brochure about rural areas in Korea runs like that^^ When you travel to different countries you really want to visit famous tourist attractions, but how would you feel like when you live (or have to live) in foreign country for a quite long period? You'd get bored with it very fast! So, when I found out about this programm for foreigners I didn't hesitate at all to try and see it - real country people busy with their village work and whose life doesn't depend on money spent by tourists there.
Handeumi village (한드미) is situated in Ghungcheongbuk-do in Sobeaksan National Park (1000-1400m height)
we just took a walk there to see life of village.
and first was met by curious dogs very interested in new visitors:
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| Korean Jindo dog |
First snow on this season!
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| Juniper tree |
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I trusted our guide I ate some berries - very sweet and delicious!
Hope, it doesn't have any long-term poisonous effect^^ |
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| making kimchi |
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| Drying some greens~ good place for drying something else thou, hehe^^ |
Also we experienced traditional cooking using hot stones and steam - called 아궁이. Potatoes, batata, eggs, corns were cooked in this kind of furnace from ancient times. I don't want to bother you with explanations what it is, just see pics
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| Food is cooked by steam generated from water poured inside the hill we made above stones. |
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| Arirang TV |
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| ready to eat just after getting cooler |
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