L-and-N: Buddha

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Hiking in Changnyeong

Hiking is THE hobby of South Korea, you can hike anywhere because Korea is 70% mountains. This week I did two different hikes. On Tuesday my visiting teachers came down from Daegu to visit me. We drove right up to the temple and then we hiked the 20 minute stairs to reach the Buddha.

Pictures of the decorated Temple. The Buddha pictures are here, from a previous hike.

Saturday Nick and I climbed Hawangsan Mountain. This hike has been on our To-Do list for a while. We were happy to hear other foreigners in Changnyeong that wanted to do it as well, so we set a date. The hike usually takes 3 hours but it took us a little longer because a family from our church came and they had a small child. She made it up the mountain no problem, but getting down was a different story.

Lots of beautiful flowers on the way!

Our first glimpse of the view, little did we know that we were only a little over halfway up.

The Top!!

The Rock at the top! We climbed Hawangsan Mountain!!

The friends we climbed with.

I swore we took more pictures at the top but when we reached the bottom they had disappeared. Which means we will have to climb again.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Okcheon Hiking

Hiking and I usually get along pretty well, this hike kicked my butt!! We had an unusual week at CEV because Thursday was Memorial Day (No School) the other teachers got to do what I think is the best thing in the world TEACH KINDERGARTEN for two days. I was so jealous that I was stuck in Cyber School while they were doing the thing I love. I was thankful that we did a group picture and I was able to use my new Korean speaking skills with a few of the students.

Friday Richard took us to Okcheon where we saw a nice temple and then proceeded to hike to the Buddha. I was warned that the hike was straight up, but it was short. I realize now that I should have taken pictures of the STAIRS (if you can call them that) so you would realize that only giants were capable of walking them. Lucky for me I work with some (you can read their blog here). When I finally reached the top it was so beautiful I didn't want to jump down. Here are some picture of the view!