Located four kilometers southwest from Anmyeon-eup, this cream-colored beach is the ideal place to go for a drive and watch the sun sink into the ocean between two large rock formations known as the Granny Rock and the Grandpa Rock. Legend has it that the wife of a base commanding officer in the Shilla Dynasty became the Granny Rock when she died after waiting faithfully for her husband.
This treasure island (artifacts from the Song Dynasty have actually been found at the bottom of the sea) is famous for its clear seawater, soft beach, and salt farms. The magical sight of huge salt farms is not the only spectacle that can be found here; the mud flat leisure town allows tourists to experience and observe the marine life of the mud flat.
The world's oldest intact Buddhist canon, the Tripitaka Koreana, is carefully housed in the 1,200-year-old Haeinsa Temple. The temple's other landmarks include the oldest wooden Buddha statue in Korea (the Haeinsa Vairocana) and a UNESCO world heritage Janggyeong Panjeon ( a "storage hall of Buddhist Sutras").
Place to Visit: Gyeongbokgung Palace, N Seoul Tower, Myeong-dong, Bukchon Hanok Village, Insa-dong, Lotte World, Changdeokgung, Nami Island, Cheonggyecheon, Everland, Namsan, Namdaemun Market, Haeundae Beach, Bulguksa, Seongsan Ilchulbong, Dongdaemun Market, Hallasan, Seoraksan National Park, and much...