Taehwa Bamboo Forest

Bamboo leaves make for perfect weapons!

I'm terribly derelict in posting on this blog... Sorry.

Today I am taking you to the Taehwa Bamboo Forest, which... was a month ago. Ahem.

I pass by this forest twice a week when I'm heading to and from my high school, but hadn't ever been in the forest itself, which isn't so much of a forest really as it is a man-made trail with bamboo trees left and right. Koreans like their carefully plotted trails (I hike every other week and so far I can count the number of times we've hiked off the beaten track on one hand).

We'd visited the Jeonggwangsa temple earlier and then headed to a neat little rotating cafe called One's Coffee by the Taehwa River and overlooking the bamboo forest. Friends had dessert while I felt too full after our temple meal to gobble much of anything else yet. Plus I had a donut in my backpack.

Too rich for me, but photo ops are fun.

Then afterwards we decided to head to the other shore to explore the forest.

Nom nom while waiting for the cute little ferry pulled by two men. This bag, by the way, is now defunct. Oh well. 15,000\ is too cheap to be too pissed off about quality.

We took pictures while waiting.

And then... Bamboo Forest, here we come! Madness!

Witch vs. warrior princess.