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ohahakehte
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The State of Denial
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 Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject: going to Soroksan on Chusok? |
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a bus ride from seoul to soroksan during chusok would be long right? how many hours?
how clogged would soroksan and its hotels be w/ people? |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| At Chuseok. Do it only if it's the only possible time you can go. It's going to be a circus, both there and all the way there and back. Be prepared for a four hour trip back to take 8 or 10. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| If you can get a ticket. |
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osangrl
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Location: osan
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:18 am Post subject: |
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I went to Seoraksan this weekend. Was great. I can't even imagine what it would be like over the holidays though, if it was that busy on a regular weekend!
It took almost 4 hours from Dong Seoul, was slow at parts cause much of the road is under construction.
Lots of min baks and hotels..... good luck, I heard on chusak you have to stand in line climbing the mountain! |
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deeluvskitties
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: songpa-gu
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject: climbing |
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i want to go to seoraksan but i have heard it is an incredibly BIG mountain that is hard to climb - from one source..
but two girls i knew went - and they didn't seem too fit to me.
i am not into rock-climbing, camping over night or dying (haha) - are there easier trails that are more "hiking" than "climbing"? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: climbing |
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| deeluvskitties wrote: |
i want to go to seoraksan but i have heard it is an incredibly BIG mountain that is hard to climb - from one source..
but two girls i knew went - and they didn't seem too fit to me.
i am not into rock-climbing, camping over night or dying (haha) - are there easier trails that are more "hiking" than "climbing"? |
Sure. There are 3 main trails from the central park area. A nice one leads up to Hundulbawi (a boulder you can rock by pushing, next to an interesting cave temple, & if youre ambitious you can climb the stairs up Ulsanbawi -- a wonderful crag). Biryongpopo is a trail to a waterfall, not spectacular but some nice nature along the way. Pisondae is my fave -- an easy hike to a rest area perched over a beautiful cascading river, nice place to sit & enjoy food & dongdongju & watch the crazy rockclimbers ascending cliff faces. The cablecar ride is fun -- theres typically a 2 or 3-hour wait but your ticket is time-stamped so you can do other stuff in the interim. The giant bronze buddha is impressive & theres a nice temple complex nearby.
Taechongbong is the tallest peak -- a challenging one-day hike or most stay overnight up there. I havent tackled that (bad knees) but I understand there's nothing technical about it -- just a physical slog with a nice view payoff if the weather is clear.
Keep in mind that when Koreans talk about 'mountain-climbing' they're generally referring to a stroll in a mountainous park. A bit of heart-pumping action, but just a bit. |
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