Under the impact of COVID-19, international travel becomes a luxury, but that doesn't mean you can't start planning your next perfect trip once the situation is under control.
If you happen to search for Instagramable tourist destinations, South Korea's Purple Island is a must-visit. As the name suggests, this place is a purple paradise complete with vast fields of lavender, empress trees that bloom purple, purple painted houses, bridges and even purple roads.
It's not clear how the idea of turning Banwol Island and Parkji Island – two stretches of land connected by a large wooden purple bridge – into Purple Island came to be, but last summer authorities in Sinan County, South Jeolla Province announced their plans for the unique tourist attraction. Their plans included planting 40,000 lavender plants, thousands of empress trees, as well as other purple plants, painting residential building purple, as well as roadside attractions and even roads.
The purple Cheonsa Bridge (meaning "Angel's Bridge") connecting Banwol and Parkji islands is worth a visit especially at night, but there is so much more to see and photograph. If you like the color purple, you're probably going to need more than a day to experience it all.
As you'd expect on a true Purple Island, even the hotel rooms, restaurants and restrooms are painted purple, and so are some of the local cars. Purple-colored rooms start at 50,000 Korean Won (US$41) per night.
Purple Island is still a work in progress, but it recently went viral on Asian social media. It provides everyone a purple getaway from daily concerns, where we can all retrieve peace of mind in this soothing color.
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