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Weekend at Seoraksan, Sokcho part 1.

Weekend at Seoraksan in Sokcho part 1.

Last weekend a group of us girls, Michelle, Erin, Audrey, Megan and I went to Seoraksan in Sokcho for the weekend. We set off at 9am on the Saturday morning and the bus trip took 4.5hours. We got to Sokcho at about 2pm and went to look for the the no. 7 bus to take us to Seoraksan. We were waiting at the bus stop for a long time (1hour) but the bus didnt come.

A taxi driver stopped in front if us after a 10 mins wait and was asking where we were going. We told him we want to go to Seoraksan and he said something along the line of…the bus you want to go don’t come here, I will take you…10000won. Michelle was like 5000won seoraksan go…he says 5000won too cheap…and now he got out of the taxi  and was saying more stuff to us in korean, which we dont understand. I understood a little  but didnt want to say anything in korean because we don’t want to take his taxi. We didn’t trust him, but apparently he was telling the truth lol. The bus driver that was driving past us like 3 or 4 times was asking us where we wanted to go. We told him and he said we’re on the wrong side of the street lol.

So we walked back to the bus terminal and saw the information booth. It’d be helpful if we had saw it before lol. Anyways, we asked her where we supposed to go to catch the bus to Seoraksan, she told us we have to walk to the Express bus terminal and catch the bus no.7-1, which was not far from Intercity Bus Terminal. I also asked her if there was any hostel near Seoraksan and she pointed out the Seorak Youth Hostel, I asked her if she could call for us because I knew they wouldn’t know much english. LOL this was all done in broken english/korean and sign/body language. She was extremely helpful.

Now that we know where we ‘re going, we caught the right bus, took us 25minutes to get there. We got there, checked in at 4pm but it was too late to go to Seoraksan so we just walked around the area until dinner. Suprisingly, there  were not a lot of restaurant around there. At the hotel reception there was a Dominos pizza ad so we all decided to have Domino pizza for dinner. We asked the lady at the reception to order for us…lol…she took a really long time though. The pizzas were so good, maybe because we were all starving hehehe. We talked and talked and talked, we all had a great night…a lot of laughs ^____^ Although, everyone got bitten by mosquitoes, poor Erin she couldnt sleep because the ondol in the room was too warm and was itchy the whole night.

We set the alarm for 5am since we wanted to see the sunrise. So after 3 snoozes, we finally got up and got ready to check out. We took a bus to Seoraksan, we waited in line for the cable cars. The line was soooo long, because there were so many people there already. We got our tickets, cost us 8500won each. The boarding time was 1.5hours later so we decided to walk around and go see the temple. Seoraksan was just amazing to see in person, I checked the internet and saw pictures of Seoraksan and it was so pretty, especially in Autumn. The trees are in shades of green, red, orange, and yellow. 

We bought waffles for breakfast lol and it was delicious, waffles with whip cream and syrup…mmmm…!  We saw this huge statue of the buddah, a lot of people praying, taking pictures and just enjoying the moment. We checked out the temple 200 meters from the entrance. The temple was obviously beautiful with the decorations on the door, the roof, and the inside of the temple.    

I have to mark grade 5 mid terms exam so i’ll continue with part 2 and post pictures later.

CYA ^____^