2006 World Ginseng Expo

Just try telling me that you did something more exciting than that this weekend?? Actually I had a fantastic weekend and so much to write but I will only write about Ginseng fest for now and bore you with the other tales at a later date.

Apparently there has been a Ginseng festival going on for the past three weeks in a town called Geumsan, about an hour away. Today Megan, Lauren and I hopped on a bus and decided to check out the wonder that is the Ginseng Expo.

It was actually pretty cool, it was set up outdoors and there were exhibits on Ginseng Food, The Cultivation of Ginseng, the Health exhibit and the history of Ginseng. I learned more than I really need to know about Ginseng but it was a well put on exhibit and one of those touristy things that I am glad I got to partake in.

As usual, being the whities that we are, we stuck out like sore thumbs and thus were asked to pose for a few pictures by the 'press' people of the expo. I may need to attend next year just to see what they are using our photos for. We also were asked to pose with a bunch of Korean army guys, so we obliged them as well and got a photo of that for ourselves too.

As for freebies I got ginseng candy and ginseng vitamin c. We decided to act like full out Koreans and we ate meat on a stick (hopefully it was chicken), and then had ginseng tempura, which surprisingly was pretty tasty, kinda tasted like a carrot.

Anyhow this post does not do justice to the wonder that is Ginseng Expo so check out the pictures that I have posted: http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=e9ujen3.3jcodd4j&Uy=2rd2sd&Ux=0

Well it has been a busy, exciting weekend so I will write more tomorrow but for now I am off!