Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Korea day 5 (Sept 21)

We slept in till about the last second possible, and then booked it out. For some reason Mark decided he only needed 3 hours of sleep, so he was a little out of it. We drove to Seraksan. To go on some freaking hiking!


Our lovely bathroom...


view outside of our hotel



Rest stop snacks on the way, delicious dumplings and Korean pancakes
Well… it would have been amazing… but it was raining like crazy the entire day. When I say crazy, I mean we got hit by a Typhoon all day, which I guess is an interesting experience from an indoor vantage point, but driving it was absolute hell.

Instead, we had to cop out and hit up the cable cars.. we would have gotten some rocking views as well, but the fog obscured everything in the area… even still, it was a fairly nice view. I guess you can't have everything go right during traveling. There was also a temple on the mountain, but it was



At least we gotta see a rocking Buddha statue. Unfortunately, the only "XL" poncho available wasn't quite my size or color preference.


Despite the fog, we still got some pretty sweet views.


On our way down
Feeling very wet, cold and dampened, we decided to head out as the rain wasn't letting up at all… so on to Seoul!

Neat bridge along the way that we stopped at.


Chris didn't wanna go to Seoul, so we made a side trip to drop him off at a bus station at another somewhat large city. Unfortunately it was a wasted effort because the buses didn't even go to Masan. Wa wa… this meant we instead had to drive into Seoul to drop Chris off, rather than our original plan to just ride a bus into the city. Man… what a nightmare decision that was… upon reflection we all agreed we should have just let him suck it up and stay in a hotel outside the city for a night.

Dropping Chris off wasn't the big deal, but the rest of the day… well, night, was nasty. We had to find a hotel to stay at, but also one that would allow a spot to park.. well also happened to be low on gas as well, and whenever we tried to get to a station we were blocked by a billion other cars who would not let us in.

Eventually we found gas and a nice little hotel to stay at and booked it for the night and the following one. Not exactly the greatest day ever..

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