Saturday, June 17, 2006
Korea Day 3http://www.spavalley.co.kr/index/
Today's main event was to visit the Spa Valley. Something like Wild Wild Wet or the late Fantasy Island mixed with hot springs and a gym and a health centre all into one. There was a nude spa on the 4th floor, and as a Singaporean, visited it for the first time. The place was spacious, and thoroughly relaxing, now I can understand why people fall asleep in the hot springs, or the solar-beds or even in a sauna.
Then later hundreds of children came to play in the pools! There was a small wave pool, about half the size of Jurong East Swimming Complex, and a long lazy river that I swam 5 laps, even a proper swimming pool and slides for all ages, there is also a hydro-gym!
That was interesting, it's the first time I've actually seen or even used a hydro-gym and it was fun! Instead of lead weights, the "weights" are filled with air and you have to push it against the water resistance, the water was pleasantly warm from a hot spring as well.
The indoor pool also had massage jets, all in all, I worked up a good time, and then washed up and the entire group was already having fun. Then it was a long bus ride to Daegu, with a stopover.
On the left, a public phone battery charger in a personal locker! On the right, "Money Dispenser".
Very disabled friendly!
We reached Malsan Provincial Park, east of Jeonju, because the two mountain peaks resemble the ears of a horse, basically it was just there to see rocks that were stacked remarkably high without any means of adhesives. Other than that the place was just plain boring. I ran up ahead into the mountains and found out that the path is longer than expected and it goes all the way into the Hwa Aum Cave
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As we walked down the mountain, we walked past the late Maple leaf trees with all their leaves in bright red. Very pleasant to the eye.
After that we had a traditional Korean unpolished rice-meal.
Then we headed to a seasonal fruit farm where we saw crab peaches, maze, sweet winter melons and a variety of other Korean fruits being grown and as tourists, we could each take one for ourselves. The guide also talked about the national treasure, Korean Ginseng being grown as one of the National resources as well. The cold weather in Korea allows excellent Ginseng to be grown.
Then we went shopping at Jung Angro Street, Daegu, as usual I left the group to roam the place on my own. Didn't buy anything though, there wasn't anything that I liked, but took a lot of pictures of the local life though.
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