It’s time to talk National Parks, folks. Therefore the next couple of blogs come with this warning – if you have no interest in hiking, seeing pictures of pretty mountain scenes, or reading my thoughts on Korean national parks; please feel free to skip the next few (dozen) entries. I already had a small taste …
Continue reading Korea’s National Parks – Seoraksan, Odaesan and Chiaksan
We are having a little break from the norm today…it’s tangent time again! As we are moving into phase three of my South Korean travels (Seoul, Jeju, and now an epic road trip), I feel now is a good time to provide a slight update on my thoughts of Korea and its people. I also …
This is it. It’s Hallasan Day. Let’s go climb a mountain, people! Today I really was on tenterhooks over this hike; I’d been keeping my eye on the weather all week, and obviously I had given up some of my precious exploring time to be sure I was fighting fit to make it the 1,947m …
Continue reading Jeju Island – Hallasan and Saryeoni Forest Path
Welcome all, to Jeju Island. I could just leave these two pictures here and call it quits now, because it kind of sums up how I feel about Jeju overall, and how my experience of the island unfolded. I have never been to a tropical-type island, but I imagine this is very much what they …
Continue reading Jeju Island – Seogwipo, Udo and Jeju Olle Trail
Today I was on a mission. The mission was to secure this… This is perhaps one of the most coveted things in the Korean hiking community, the elusive National Parks Hiking Passport. The National Park Service only release a certain number of these each year and getting hold of one, especially in the Seoul area …
Alright folks, it’s about almost time to wrap up the Seoul portion of my South Korean travels. Can you believe it’s been a month already? While I certainly feel like I have packed in a lot for my time here, at the same time I have only just scratched the surface of what there is …
Continue reading Insadong, Eungbongsan, and something different for me…
As I am a little worried you might be getting all hiked out, today I am just going to conduct a glancing sweep over the next two walks I found myself taking, one within a group and one solo. Yes, you read that right, I met more people! These people in fact... Members of the …
Now my legs have recovered from the 3 million steps at Namhansanseong, it’s time to punish them a little more with a hike around Seoul, but not just randomly wandering about like I have been, but an actual official hike that comes with a map, stamps to collect, and a nice cheap plastic badge at …
Here we go everyone, it’s time to be one with nature. Up until now I think we can safely say that my trip has been centred around the sights and sounds of central Seoul. And while that has been wonderful, fascinating, and a learning experience in itself; what is has lacked are big wild spaces, …
Slight tangent day. While my primary motivations for coming to Korea included food, nature, language, and historical sights (with a side line in music and drama), I also had a slight underlying ulterior motive for planning this trip; the idea of seeing how I felt about the country with an eye to potentially coming here …
Kerry's Korean Quest 