Suncheon Bay Reeds Festival cancelled.

The Suncheon Bay Reeds Festival (순천만갈대축제), scheduled for October 17th through the 24th, has been cancelled.


Dude, it's not a garden.

Suncheon Bay is perhaps the nicest attraction in Suncheon---a designation contested only by Nagan Folk Village---and one of the most significant ecological sites in the country, and you certainly don't need a superfluous festival to have a nice trip there. Here are some pictures I took from my trip last fall, a month before last year's festival:








And here's a white guy photoshopped in:



Suncheon Bay is accessible by city bus number 67, which runs 32 times a day and hits most of the major stops in town. It's also on the city bus tour. If you go, make sure you cross the fields and climb up to Yongsan Observatory, the deck that overlooks the bay where many of these photographs were taken. For a few thousand won you can also also take a boat down the river to near the mouth of the bay.