#Haedong Yonggungsa temple

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Busan, South Korea

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Haedong Yonggungsa Temple

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Finally back home, but still struggling to catch up on all my travel inspiration art!

Also got a job now, woo-hoo!

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple was breathtaking...Highly reccomend for anyone visiting Busan. The legend there, and the countless golden leaves with written wishes, was truly a sight to behold.

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may your wishes become reality | shots from Haedong Yonggungsa temple

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[Korea/Busan] Haedong Yonggung Temple - 해동용궁사

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Haedong Yonggungsa Temple. Busan, South Korea. 2024 Year of the dragon.

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Gwangmyeongjeon Hall at Haedong Yonggungsa Temple in Busan contains a gilded reclining Buddha. This temple is famous in Korea for its miraculous wish-granting powers.

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Hexel's World Tour Week 7 – Busan

This week I took the KTX to get to Busan (cue scary scenes of Train to Busan. I'll never forgive Krista for convincing me to watch the movie with her!) Anyway, it was kind of amazing to be able to see the country through the windows as I traveled across the peninsula!

I was told that I had to visit the beaches in Busan, so that's the first place I went: Haeundae Beach. There were so many people there, it was really fun to people watch and just lie in the sand! So, you remember when I was in Brazil and I went to that beach that had these famous mountains in the background? Now I know why it made me homesick, because there are SO MANY mountains and beaches in South Korea!🇰🇷🏖️⛰ I must have been reminded of this place. I bet it was my home before...well, before I lost all my memories. I started a journal with all my feelings and thoughts because Georgia told me it might help to write everything down. Once I'm back home with the band, they can help me try to piece things together! (I hope 🤞)

I visited Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, it's right by the sea and was absolutely beautiful! They said that the old temple was destroyed during the Japanese occupation :( but I'm really glad they rebuilt it because it's such a beautiful place and I can see why they'd build a temple here. When you are quiet and just listen to the ocean it feels very calming. I wish I could have come during Buddha's birthday, they told me that during the celebrations in May they hang hundreds of paper lanterns up! 🏮 I guess I'll just have to come again to see it!

I thought that the seafood was good in Seoul, but that's because I hadn't had it in Busan. This city is right on the ocean and has some of the best seafood ever! 🐟🍣 Everyone told me the best place to get it was Jagalchi Fish Market. Downstairs are all the stalls where I picked out what fish I wanted to buy from a really nice ajumma. And then she told me to go upstairs to the designated seating section for her stall. All of the stalls will cook your fish for you upstairs if you want and mine was SO delicious! I have to come back here again! Other than seafood there's also amazing dwaeji Gukbap, Ssiat Hotteok, Haemul Pajeon, and my favorite thing was the Korean street toast. It's not a delicacy but it was so yummy! I'm going to see if I can cook it for Dustin and the band when I get home! 🍞

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Wednesday, July 17th

As today was one of the few days with a decent weather forecast I signed up for a tour around Busan.

Busan is way more spread out than Seoul, so I’m glad I took a tour for this, otherwise it would have taken days to see all of this.

The first place we went to was a Buddhist temple called Haedong Yonggungsa along the coast. Korea is primarily Christian, pre-Joseon period Korea was mainly Buddhist but in the Joseon Dynasty in the late 1300s they changed the state religion to be Confucianism, and then Christian missionaries from France arrived in the late 19th century. This temple was first built pre Joseon Dynasty in the 1300s but, like most historic sites here, was destroyed during the Japanese Occupation and the Korean War and was later rebuilt after the war.

After visiting the temple we went to a small town named Cheonsapo about 2km outside of Busan. We saw the some pretty lighthouses and were able to watch some people diving. On Jeju Island there are women called haenyo, who for generations have practiced diving. They are able to hold their breath and free dive (without equipment) deeper than should actually be possible, no one really knows how they do it, but it is an art that has been practiced for generations by the women there. They mainly dive for abalone. During the Korean War this practice began dying out, and there are only a few haenyo left and most are in their 70s and 80s. A lot of people from Jeju immigrated to Busan during the Korean War, about 30% of the population in Cheongsapo comes from there, and there are a few haenyo who practice diving here as well.

We had a lunch of seafood and then got on board what is called the Sky Capsule, a teeny tiny train that can fit about 4 people inside and goes on an elevated track along the coast at about 5km per hour. It was very pretty. Underneath it runs the Blue Line Train, which was first constructed by the Japanese and is now a tourism train between all the tiny towns on the coast. You could actually see Japan from there, one of it’s islands is only 48km away, I didn’t realize how close it was.

Then we went and visited two villages referred to as “culture villages”, Huinnyeol and Gwancheon. Both of these villages were built by refugees from the Korean War looking for any place to establish themselves and were originally constructed from scraps and whatever people could find on land high in the hills outside the city; the houses are all very close together and unique looking, very similar to the moon villages in Seoul at Ilhwa-dong. Over time the land here accumulated in value and the residents are now mostly elderly and do not want to sell their land, but because many elders here were working in a time of turmoil there wasn’t the chance to save for retirement so they still need to generate income and the government hired artists to paint murals all around the villages to draw tourism, similar to the moon villages in Seoul, however what is different about the villages here is that the neighborhood seems like they have banded together to make something of a neighborhood watch committee to protect the residents from the impacts of overtourism. There were teams of residents in fluorescent vests patrolling the village to make sure that the tourists don’t leave trash or act rowdily and disrupt the residents. It also seemed like more of the businesses were locally owned, I thought this was really cool.

The first village was along the coast and was all white with colorful murals here and there, it seemed like something out of the Mediterranean, I had some mango bingsu (shaved ice with condensed milk) and walked around. Gamcheon village is more in the hills, and was definitely more touristy. They had a Little Prince theme to most of the art, with so many murals of that book with quotes everywhere. It was very pretty, but even with the neighborhood committee it was still extremely touristy and the crowds were a bit crazy.

In the evening I had dwaeji gukbap, pork soup, known as one of the signature dishes of Busan. For desert I had a local desert called Salt Bread, a really soft croissant filled with cream and topped with this special kind of salt they make here which I don’t know why but it tasted so good.

Until tomorrow,

[atlasandacamera]

Busan, South Korea

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Haedong Yonggungsa Temple.

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Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, Busan

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South Korea's `most beautiful temple`!

In Busan outskirt lies the most beautiful Buddhist temple of South Korea, as they stated themself : Haedong Yonggungsa. At the edge of a rocky coast line lies this big temple complex. Many corners and niches in buildings but also between rocks with statues and holy shrines. Worshippers come to pray, to be thankfully for success or begging for a good luck in a healthy and wealthy future. But also…

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📍Haedong Yonggungsa Temple - 해동 용궁사