It's My Life!: Mt. Seoraksan

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Climb Every Mountain..

If you look back to my blog entries one year ago, you will see pictures of an 80's party. Last year, my friend Hayley celebrated her birthday with a nostalgic neon gala that basically the entire ESL teacher population of Seoul attended. This year...we celebrated a bit different....

We climbed Seoraksan Mountain. Much less low-key...and SO nice! It was a fabulous weekend getaway of four ladies in their 20's enjoying nature, each others' company, and SERIOUSLY committing gluttony! We figured we deserved it after our strenuous uphill hike to a cave on the side of the mountain - where we found a beautiful lady monk singing and playing various traditional instruments.

Big Buddah near the bottom of the mountain

Early on in the hike

About Mid-Hike

Lady Monk in the cave

Kimchi and makgeolli - the only way to end a hike in Korea :)

A 25-hour mart? Only in Korea...

Our palace...HAHAHAH! YES - we slept here...and NO, it's not a love motel. The VHS tapes in the hall were real movies.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Sokcho - Summer Edition

Mid-August brought a 3 day weekend, which meant I took advantage to get out of the city to see more of Korea. For this, my friend Stefanie and I visited Sokcho, an east-coast town very close to Mt. Seoraksan - one of the most beautiful places in Korea. Being summer, we spent most of the time at the beach and checking out the city, but did see some of the mtn on the trip there and back. I plan to spend some time on the mountain come October, when all the leaves are changing and the humidity is lower. The pictures tell the best stories :)

On the walk to Sokcho Beach

The ridiculously crowded conditions

The "intense" tents situation - they tried to make us rent one, we didn't want to, the guy got mad when we moved one of the tents out of the way even though they don't own the beach....yeah not a fan of the tents or this beach all that much...