The Jones' Korean Adventure

While we were at Beomosa Temple, we ran into two guys who were from California. They were travelling around Korea, on their way to China. They were planning on hiking from the temple to a fortress that was a 3 hour hike away. We were invited to go along, and it sounded pretty fun, so we went.

This is Sam with Dan (in the blue shirt) and Sam (in the black shirt). We had bought some kimbap that morning to have for lunch, so we decided to have a snack break along the way. We only had two pairs of chopsticks, though - they quickly became communal chopsticks :0)
This was part of the trail up to the North Gate of the fortress. It was REALLY humid in the forest...no air movement at all...we were all feeling it! The trail was really beautiful.
This is me at the North Gate of Geumjeong Fortress. This is actually the only part of the fortress that we saw. After seeing this gate, we consulted a map that had no English on it, tried to figure out where to go, and then headed in that direction. Needless to say, like many of our other trips here, we got completely lost and ended up in a small village in the country somewhere (we still don't know where we were!). Fortunately, a bus drove by. We got on and hoped that the bus driver was going somewhere with a subway station. He drove down the mountain (the roads here are so narrow, and yet they still drive at crazy, break-neck speeds!) and ended up in the city. One of his stops was at a subway station. We said goodbye to our hiking buddies, and headed to Haeundae Beach.