Haeundae Sand Festival (해운대해수욕장)

This past weekend, I was lucky enough to go to the Haeundae Sand Festival. 해운대해수욕장 (Haeundae Beach) is the most famous beach in the country. It's located in Busan, and is about 1.5 km long.

Haeundae Beach is incredibly popular during the hot summer months, and is known for it's numerous beach umbrellas.



I spent the weekend with my friend Neil, who visits Gwangju quite often. He's got an amazing apartment (albeit small) at Minam Station, in central Busan. It was good to see him. This is a view from his helipad atop the 27th story early Saturday morning:



We went out for lunch the day of the sand festival at a local burger joint, Burts Breeze, very close to the beach. It's been about 9 months since I'd had a good burger, and this one came loaded! It was impossibly huge to take a bite of.



Here are some pictures from the sand festival and my captions below:


Ajuma's practicing safe sun.


Lot's of Koreans don't have swimming suits, so they just wear their clothes.


We didn't realize how cold the water was until we got our feet wet!


Pretty impressive! This was at the main entrance to the beach.


These sand sculptures were pretty big and it was neat to see them still sculpting them. Wonder how long they last...

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