Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival

 

 

Korea in the spring is full of so much color! I got the opportunity to travel to the Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival with many friends on Saturday for a day trip. It was a 2 hour trip to this festival in Jinhae and our bus was full of other EPIK teachers from my intake. The city in Southern Korea is known for their cherry blossoms and this festival. I hardly saw any trees in the entire town that were not cherry blossoms.

It was absolutely beautiful!

On of my favorite parts of the city was the little water path they had that was lined with blooming trees. It was really great with the bridges. Even when it started to rain for 30 minutes or so, it was beautiful! The rain caused the petals to fall from the trees, and it looked like it was snowing! :)

Ben and I spent most of the day walking around trying to find the best sights for the cherry blossoms. It ended up being a lot of walking, and a lot of Koreans, but well worth it! It was pretty romantical at times...

We walked to the part of Jinhae that the train tracks are lined with cherry blossoms. There we were surrounded by hundreds of Koreans also wanting to see this sight. It would have been just magical if there were no other people, but since there were tons of people it knocked it down to just being beautiful.... ;)
We took some "Korean couple" pics. Ben and I even made a heart with our hands, but the high school girls that we asked to take our picture said that our heart didn't look like a heart.... Maybe with some practice our "cutsie" photos will improve. We also got some cotton candy to enjoy. Notice how it is the same color as the trees...Yeah...that was planned by someone somewhere. Why else sell it? ahah
The train did go by a couple of times. I think they were offering rides through the cherry blossoms, but to be realistic, the people riding the trains could mostly see people instead of the trees. Also it was fun watching the Koreans take selfies on the train tracks with the train in the background! Some were so close to the train they were getting whistled at to get off the tracks! Good thing the train was going very slow...
After the train tracks we headed back to the bus. Unfortunately everyone was leaving the festival at the same time and we spent over an hour just trying to get out of the city. Oh well. It was a beautiful sight!