We took a bus out there, 3.5 hours each way at a cost of 20,000 won (about 25$). But the bus was really nice, it was three seats across instead of four so you had a lot of room. It also had nice foot rests, too. Below is a picture of some walnut cakes I purchased at a rest stop. I got them hot and fresh out of the baking machine and promptly burned the hell out of my mouth.
My friend brought her skim board and we did some skim boarding. Actually, she did. I mostly just fell over or missed landing on the board completely.
Korean beaches are interesting. Like all recreational activities in Korea, even snowboarding, they try to control the crowds by making them only play in certain areas. So while most of the beach was empty if you tried to go to the empty parts the life guards would come over and tell you to come back to the sectioned-off part of the beach. Below is a picture of the unused part of the beach. This is where we did some skim boarding and swimming.
They said this was safe and that the unsectioned part of the beach was dangerous. Maybe the rocks in the un-used part of the beach were harder and therefore more dangerous?
This is me. No, I'm not the little girl. I'm the one behind the skim board.
Sok'cho is also the area where you can go to see Soraksan. So we took a quick bus ride up there to talk to the rangers and get information about thur-hiking it. I'm definitely going back to thru-hike that park as well as chiri mountain.
3 comments:
Did you use the skim board to protect your ninja identity?
-Brian
That's correct.
Do you have any Remmy for post skim fun?
-denise
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