Saturday, May 29, 2004
The Bug-yeong-sa Picnic.
Another saturday. Another outing. And true to the Indian blood running in our veins - another picnic :-D
Packed food - rice, indian curry (that's what it was - an amalgamation of potatoes, onions lots of turmeric and chillies with tons of indian taste - ah heaven!), bread, jam and bananas.
Caught the 11:00 AM bus to Bug-yeong-sa (remember sa=temple in Korean) after much deliberation by Joshi, in his limited Korean, with the man at the ticket counter. Somehow managed to get the tickets!
It was a pleasent 1 hour bus-ride to Bog-yeong-sa through the suburbs of Pohang and some neighbouring villages. I was busy with the manual mode in my Canon T70 camera - trying to get some shots of the lovely landscape from the moving bus.
Modern Trash
Saw a car dump for the first time. It's sorta freaks you out. Hundreds of cars stacked together on top of each other. All trash. All bashed up. Just like junk toy cars. Why, is all I ask?
The Sa
Right at the beginning of the trek there was the Sa. All these Buddhist temples are very typical. Same architecture. Same kind of statues and idols. The paintings on the roofs and walls/gates are rather intricate and interesting. Have tried taking some close up shots of them - let's see how they turn out. Even this temple had celebrated "Booda's Birthday" - there were hordes of lamps all around.
The Trek
Started off the short trek to the waterfalls. Trekked up the rocky 2.9 km way up (and obviously back again - ha ha). There are about 12 waterfalls on that mountain/hill - but we saw only 5. Two of them were twin waterfalls (2*2=4)- one beside the other and one big huge one.
At about 2:00 PM we started off with the grub. It was really soothing having nice Indian food in the cool shade next to the gurgling waterfall. After about an hour we started off back.
Reached Pohang at 6:00 PM.
Just Googled a bit about Bug-yeong-sa... here are some "tourist" kind of links -
Bogyeongsa 12 waterfalls and Bogyeongsa Temple - ENJOY!
Finished a role (~36 shots). Let's see how the pics turn out - will turn them in to the FDI (Fujifilm Digital Imaging) Lab on Monday. Tried out a lot of experiments.
Later.
Packed food - rice, indian curry (that's what it was - an amalgamation of potatoes, onions lots of turmeric and chillies with tons of indian taste - ah heaven!), bread, jam and bananas.
Caught the 11:00 AM bus to Bug-yeong-sa (remember sa=temple in Korean) after much deliberation by Joshi, in his limited Korean, with the man at the ticket counter. Somehow managed to get the tickets!
It was a pleasent 1 hour bus-ride to Bog-yeong-sa through the suburbs of Pohang and some neighbouring villages. I was busy with the manual mode in my Canon T70 camera - trying to get some shots of the lovely landscape from the moving bus.
Modern Trash
Saw a car dump for the first time. It's sorta freaks you out. Hundreds of cars stacked together on top of each other. All trash. All bashed up. Just like junk toy cars. Why, is all I ask?
The Sa
Right at the beginning of the trek there was the Sa. All these Buddhist temples are very typical. Same architecture. Same kind of statues and idols. The paintings on the roofs and walls/gates are rather intricate and interesting. Have tried taking some close up shots of them - let's see how they turn out. Even this temple had celebrated "Booda's Birthday" - there were hordes of lamps all around.
The Trek
Started off the short trek to the waterfalls. Trekked up the rocky 2.9 km way up (and obviously back again - ha ha). There are about 12 waterfalls on that mountain/hill - but we saw only 5. Two of them were twin waterfalls (2*2=4)- one beside the other and one big huge one.
At about 2:00 PM we started off with the grub. It was really soothing having nice Indian food in the cool shade next to the gurgling waterfall. After about an hour we started off back.
Reached Pohang at 6:00 PM.
Just Googled a bit about Bug-yeong-sa... here are some "tourist" kind of links -
Bogyeongsa 12 waterfalls and Bogyeongsa Temple - ENJOY!
Finished a role (~36 shots). Let's see how the pics turn out - will turn them in to the FDI (Fujifilm Digital Imaging) Lab on Monday. Tried out a lot of experiments.
Later.
