Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival

Hwacheon in Gangwon Province, known for its rivers, lake trout, and natural scenery, is holding the “Sancheoneo (mountain trout) Ice Festival” this month.

The festival features sancheoneo experiences such as ice fishing, lure fishing, and fishing with bare hands.

Those who catch sancheoneo can ask to have it grilled or sliced into sashimi at the festival’s food centers.

State-run rail operator KORAIL is providing day-trip packages for this festival until Jan. 31.

The packages enable tourists to enjoy a vast array of activities including ice fishing, railcar driving, ice sculpture visits and sancheoneo ice fishing. For more information, visit www.korailtravel.com or call 1544-7755.

(jej2403@heraldcorp.com)


Catch trouts in Pyeongchang

Tourists can enjoy catching trouts with their bare hands through holes in the ice and enjoy the delicacy of raw or cooked rainbow trouts at the 9th Pyeongchang Trout Festival.

The festival is being held at Odaecheon of Mount. Odaesan in Jinbu-myeon, Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, until Jan. 31. 

Aside from ice fishing and lure fishing, visitors can enjoy a variety of other winter sports and traditional folk games including sledding, top spinning, snow rafting, sleigh trains, and riding four-wheel ATVs.

Visitors can also go to nearby ski resorts and Buddhist temples such as the Woljeongsa and Sangwonsa. For details, visit festival700.or.kr.

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Expedia’s hotel promotion in 2016

Global online travel agency Expedia has launched a promotion “KR Q1 Brand Campaign” for 2016, offering up to 50 percent discount at 672 hotels worldwide.

The promotion covers a wide range of hotels around the world, and will be available until Jan. 31.

Expedia will offer special prices and Expedia+ points for those who make hotel reservations via its mobile app.

For more information, visit www.expedia.co.kr/Q1-brand-sale.

(jej2403@heraldcorp.com)


Lotte Hotel Jeju’s ‘He:on Illumination’

Lotte Hotel Jeju is holding “He:on Illumination Event,” nighttime swimming with LED bubble lights, from Feb. 1 to March 17 at 8 p. m. for 2 hours a day.

The glow-in-the-dark swimming bubbles will create a fantasy of swimming in the starry sky.

In celebration of this event, the hotel is offering “He:on Illumination Package,” which includes Deluxe Lake room for a night, breakfast and fitness club vouchers at 350,000 won.

Visitors who upload their pictures with the swimming bubbles on the hotel’s official Facebook page will be randomly selected to receive gifts.

For inquiries and reservation, call 1577-0360.

(jej2403@heraldcorp.com)


Canada’s Alberta, a January destination

Hana Tour, a Korean travel agency, picked Alberta, Canada as a recommended tourist destination in January, as part of the company’s campaign to provide information and promotion for selected tourist destinations.

Alberta, included in most of Hana Tour’s Canada packages, is known for outdoor sports such as skiing, hiking and camping, and natural attractions such as the Elk Island National Park, and the Columbia Icefield.

It also has seasonal activities such as trekking and kayaking in the summer and snowshoeing and sledding in the winter.

Hana Tour offers a range of travel packages, and those who make reservation with Hana Tour will be given discount coupons for duty-free shopping.

(jej2403@heraldcorp.com)