Hey Everyone!
Today Andrew and I went on a nice hike through the trails and woods which we have discovered completely surround the back of our apartment.
We live in a very cool location because on one side of our building is the bustling city, while on the other is the quiet serene forest, filled with buddhist temples and statues.
We decided to go exploring this morning and found some pretty amazing things which are SO close to us!
The road which our apartment is on turns into a trail and as it does, it becomes lined with these beautiful multicolored lanterns to guide the way:
We walked along this trail for a while and at the top of it, was a Buddhist Temple, Filled with lanterns, statues and ceremonial grounds, it was so cool to see !
A lot of it looked as if it hadn't been used in years, sort of abandoned. Cups and candles and incense were left all over the place, it was the weirdest sight! We were saying to each other that it had a spooky feeling to it, because of the sense of abandonment you felt when you were there..
Some of the Rock Structures..
We continued our hike past the temple and ceremonial grounds and struggled our way up a steep steep hill side to get to what looked like it would be a good lookout point at the top, and sure enough, A BEAUTIFUL view at the top of the mountain, AND it was clear enough to see down, which is rare in this foggy, polluted country!
The City Below....
Rice Fields:
We stayed admiring the view at the top for a while and then decided to trek home.
It was a great hike, and we will definitely explore more as there were many many different trails leading to the big lookout point. We'll slowly explore them all throughout the year :)
We're so happy that we live right along side all of this!
Andrew made sure to bring his energy drink along,
Mmmm Sweat! Sounds delicious..
They seem to give food and drink here in Korea the most unappetizing english names...
On friday night we went to a Karaoke Bar with some friends, here In Ganghwa-Eup, it was the most AMAZING thing ever!
This was no normal karaoke bar, You get a PRIVATE room with just your friends and the room has disco balls and flashing lights and a full wall of screen with images on it, as well as the words to the songs. There were 100's of songs to choose from! The mic even distorts your voice a little to make you sound better, and rates your voice after the song hahaha It was SO much fun. We couldn't stop mentioning how much Canada needs one. (Brent, we thought of you alllllll night, and even sang a lil Jon Bon Jovi in your name)
Such a great time, we're definitely going back there!
Anyways, that was our weekend!
Back to work tomorrow for week number 2..
More updates soon!
xo
1 comment:
amazing, uncle rico would be proud of your hiking explorations! sounds like you guys are settling in beautifully...it's cool hearing about you guys encounter some of this stuff but i will have you know, marcus used to drink pocari sweat ALL the time - it was sick so please don't remind him of it. It literally tastes like canned sweat, but it's good for you when you're sick (allegedly)
much love to you both, keep the blogs coming! xo
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