Last year I visited this island to see the magical sea parting phenomenon in Jindo island. every year it happens around the end of March or April. This year Miracle Searoad Festival will be on 3/29 through 4/2 in Jindo island.
There will be many great events to take part in before the sea parting starts. You can see a maritime ship parade, traditional Korean dance and Pansori performance, traditional 5000 year old group dance performance (강강술래), and much more.
The highlight of this festival is the sea parting, so we will make sure not to miss this. We will head to the edge of the sea just around 4:30 am and join the locals who want to ‘walk on water' with torchlight.’ As the sea pulls away a sandbank emerges and the path is revealed. You will be able to walk on the 40 metre wide path for about 2.8 kilometres.
The world-famous Magical sea way is only the phenomenon exposes 2.8km-long sea way between Hoedong-ri, Gogun-myeon and Modo-ri, Uisin-myeon when water is lowered because of tides. However it is still mysterious in its regular width of about 40m under the water. The tides come in and out 2 times a day. Though there are the differences of tide’s speed and wave such as Typhoon, this risen pit has formed. Every year, about 400 thousand Korean and foreign tourists rush to see this miracle, a fully exposed sea way for 1 hour. It is known as worldwide spot where the most people gather to see a temporary happening.
You may have heard of Jindo dogs. These dogs are very special to Korean people, because of their intelligence, fierce loyalty and bravery. Originally bred as hunting dogs, now they are more often simply pets. At the festival we will be able to see some of these dogs perform as well as be available for us to pet.
This magical sea way, called as the modern Mose’s miracle, became world-famous when French ambassador in Korea, Mr. Pierre Randi visited Jindo in 1975 and write about this phenomenon in French paper. In 1996, a Japanese pop singer Dendoyosimi recorded big hit with the song “Jindo story", based on this sea way. Numbers of Japanese tourists has increased sharply thereafter
Jindo county presents many characteristic folk arts to visitors. The performance includes Nationally Designated important intangible cultural properties such as Ganggangsullae (Circle Dance), Jindo Ssitgimgut (Shaman Rite), Field song, Jindo Dasiraegi and Jeollanam Provincially Designated intangible cultural properties like funeral song and drum play. Besides, there are various events to please tourists growing larger year by year.
If you have time end of this month I can recommend you to visit Jindo, you will definitely like it.
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