A trip to Suncheon to visit Maggie and Spencer!

About 2 weeks ago, Kyle and I, Katie, and our friend Kaylee (our friend from back home) took a bus down to Suncheon to visit Kyle and Katie's brother and wife. Suncheon is a smaller town, about 4 hours south by bus.

Suncheon is located at the bottom of the country, right in the middle of the peninsula. Seoul is in the upper left corner.

It is located near Yeosu, where the 2012 World Expo is held. We were originally going to try to go to the expo, but it had just opened and they were not prepared for the amount of people visiting. Many people asked for their money back since the lines were so long and they ran out of amenities, like toilet paper, food, even benches for people to sit on. Maybe we'll try it later.

Instead, we went to Suncheon Bay Eco Park.

 

Suncheon is located near some farming communities. There is big open spaces there, unlike Seoul where the big open spaces are usually in transition from being a demolished building into a high rise apartment complex. It is very nice, and just feels cleaner and fresh. The eco park has some really cool things! There is a raised walkway( so you don't walk through the marsh).

 

The wind blew the shoots in these weird, mesmerizing ways. It looked like the shoots were undulating water.

The park displays an estuary that basically changes the water from salt water to fresh as it goes from the ocean to the bay. The coolest thing to see, other than the beauty of nature, is the fish! There are fish there that can walk on land! It is evolution right before our eyes! Their fins act like feet on land and they waddle around on the ground when they swim out of the water. There are also some crabs that dig little holes in the marsh mud. We saw some crabs fighting some fish for the holes.

It was a great trip, and so nice to see Maggie and Spencer. They live pretty far so we don't get to see that too often.