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[zappadelta]

Hi,

I bought a tent and some camping gear some time ago, and realized that I've just used it all once or twice. So, I'm going to try to do some camping very soon.

Please recommend some sites that you have been camping. Although I live in Seoul, I am up for going to any part of Korea. In fact, the only camping trip I have been on was to Geoje Island, about as far as possible.

Thank you

[captain kirk]

There's a temple around Chirisan area (starts with 'S', can't recall) and a trail from there (that temple has a stone lantern held up by four standing lions, and massive columns from 1600, last time it burnt and was rebuilt) to a waterfall. Most turn around and head back. But you can carry on and head up further. There are camping grounds along the trail. I froze my butt off sleeping w/out a tent, only a groundsheet, in a foxhole up top (first night I slept at the base of the waterfall) on the way futher up. It was like sleeping in a grave, the night was clear, it was Oct (this was my first year in Korea and I couldn't believe how warm it was compared to Canada), my socks were frozen solid in the bottom of my sleeping bag the next day, 'socksicles', a kind of popsicle. The stars that high up, seen from the 'grave/foxhole', seemed to spin around and the WIND whooshed over the mountain like a giant bellowing. Next day it warmed up to t-shirt weather, sunny, by 10am. A lizard darted across the trail. I came across a busload of people who'd DRIVEN up. And, further on, still ascending there was a view of snake-pine ridges shouldering up, purple with distance-haze, seemingly endlessly. Purple and yellow flowering bushes were blossoming, it being October. It was quite an incredibly infinite sight of beauty. So I went up the standard trail between these arms of ascending ridges and, eventually, down the other side to a kind of 'recreation ancient village', with thatch rooved cottages, Korean totem poles, and a village nearby with a confectionary where I got a pop and some chips after two nights sleeping outside, and caught a bus to the nearest city. It was pretty cool. Especially passing through a bamboo thicket near an ancient village, now overgrown, a mortar and pestle broken now, on the forest floor. And, further up, odd circular depressions with laid stone foundations, a kind of paleo habitation. Also an abandoned, rotting Korean totem pole off the trail and beside a steep streambed, leering in that jeering crack-grinned way to scare off evil spirits.

[Underwaterbob]

What with Chuseok arriving, I'd suggest camping on Seopori Beach on Deok Jeok Do. I'm sure the usual glut of debaucherous foreigners will be there. Hopefully the rumors of Samsung turning the place into some kind of resort were bogus.

[laguna]

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[laguna]

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