a few days out, chiaksan

great to get out. the weather finally has decided that raining for an entire summer is not the proper attitude. or maybe is was the sun dance i did last night along the river. hmmmm...

either way we're off to visit Wonju, a fairly local National Park. local being only a two hour bus journey and 9,000w from seoul. catch was that the luxury bus drops off at the new terminal which doesn't have a bus stop for the bus that goes out to chiaksan. we had to hop in a cab to get to the local bus stop. nbd, it's all good. we made it. with only a few minor upsets
the local bus we got on really did go all the way up to the entrance of the park, however we were unsure of what exactly this looked like (being as we had never been before) so when we asked the bus driver if we should get off at a certain stop (nearly 3 miles away from the national park entrance) he told us it was the correct one.. pfht. as we are with time the day was already half over, haha.. night hiking is our thing i guess (not really though). however late we were we made it to our waterfall, the temple and even got to jump in the water really quick to rinse off stickiness!

walking...

still walking......

omg! yus!!!

maps. hur, hur.

hmmm....

dragons

here we go!

hundreds... thousands? paper cranes, many many many jars full

grab your latte visit buddah 

pretty water #1

me with pretty water 

stephen with pretty water

bali bali, chusaeyo!

pretty water #2 and waterfalls!

after a dip

night hike down

fare-thee-well

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we made it though, and saw waterfalls (the main goal) and pretty water to swim in (secondary goal)
i've heard going all the way to the top of the mountain there is actually quite beautiful, had we not had to walk 3 miles just to the entrance of the park we might have been able to make it, but what we made it to was really lovely, if infested by moggies cause of the summer weather