Ullengdo & Dokdo: Day 3
[Continued from Ullengdo & Dokdo Day One and Day Two]
Wria, Camilla and I started morning three crazy early. We were up, at breakfast, and out of the hotel in about thirty minutes. A feat neither of them was positive they'd be able to manage as assuredly as I was. But we managed, and we caught a taxi to the top of the steep, steep crazy incline back to the location of the Cable Car at eight in the morning, while sunlight was only beginning to pour down the mountainous rises surrounding our sleepy little port town.
The temple from above in the cable car
The sleepy little port town from above.
The city turns to the right where it goes between those ridges and edges the sea.
There was an observatory at the top, which we took pictures at. Then there was a hike, half on stairs and half climbing through the woods, to a gazebo on the furthest out cropping before the ocean. It was an arduous and unexpected hike thing, especially given my plans to hike to the lighthouse with Wria after we finished the cable car morning, but in the end it was well worth it.
One of the many views including endless ocean and mountains
Zooming in as far as possible on the very far away lighthouse that we'd reach later
An zoom into the gazebo from the observatory at the cable car's end
Part of the hike! Looks easy, right?
Think again! (Camilla and Wria, who didn't have knee problems, waging the jungle hike!)
Very, very zoomed in on the observatory from the gazebo now
To the right in the gazebo
The victorious champions!
Headed back down in the cable car after buying pumpkin taffy
We got done with the cable car/hike/gazebo fully round trip just as the Adventure Korea group arrived there, which was nice. Not having to wait for sixty other people or being rushed at any point. We cheered people on to getting up the hellish hill as we headed down. We dropped Camilla at the two museums to enjoy, and stopped in at the gift shop again. The little woman working there loved us a lot. She called me "Baby" a handful of times, because of my dimples when I grin.
We got stuck there about half an hour. This was when Wria bought most of her stuff and when I picked up my skull prayer beads and necklace set. And the woman gave us apple and grinning and pointed things out, and it was general amazing. We made ourselves leave though, so we could still hit the lighthouse and do it's long hike without missing lunch or our departing boat.
Because I felt I hadn't documented in pictures before and you all needed to understand just how much this city loves/lives on squid;
A close up on the drying racks. These are put out new every morning.
Long distance on one street. Yes, that’s six different racks on different places.
The hike to the light house was hard, and back from it was even harder. It was the reason I thought I might have pushed myself too hard on Sunday. But it was worth it and there were no truly lasting ill effects, and there is and was so much beauty to be found and remembered. I’m glad I didn't pass it up.
The hike to the lighthouse went around three mountain outcroppings first
Beautiful volcanic mountains and the jewel blue East Sea
My cave love returns!
It's so pretty.
Still hiking to, but this is a shot looking back at where we'd come from. This also has the far outcropping away from us, where you can see the observatory/gazebo in this close-up
I've a thing for random art shots. I'm sure you've all figured that out by now.
Inside the mountain, hiking from the coastal edge up now. The off-the-path Path, suggested by locals.
Wria and I were suitably dubious feeling of it
We won't be ever again. Look at the beautiful bamboo haven on the off-the-path Path.
It took our breath away the whole time, too.
A Korean lighthouse! No, really that's it. It's not behind glass building.
The house to the left is where the lighthouse keeper live.
I can totally see the perks of living here. All across.
From the lighthouse observation deck
Victory! Another small port town in the background, we celebrate with water and laughter.
The bush tried to steal my hair. There were necessary talks after that.
Posin'. I did tell you people Ullengdo had more pictures of me in it than ever before.
A last random candid done by Wria, that I didn't know about until she gave me all her pictures.
Oddly enough, this is so completely how I see myself here. Half mountains, half sea, distracted entirely by the experience in my blue jeans and flip flops, totting the expensive camera.
After this we high-tailed our way back, making it in later than we should have. But neither of us really felt that bad and it didn't cost anyone anything more that we checked out about twenty minutes past the due time. I settled for not rocking the boat and went in halvsies on getting a pizza with Wria. Which took so long we had to take it to go on the boat. I ate two of my pizza in entirety and two of them just the toppings as per the norm. Definitely not like Papa John’s.
So we get to the boat. Remember how boat ride three from the Dokdo Islands was vaguely choppy? Boat ride four was a testament to hard swells. The kind I hadn't seen since I was eighteen in Australia. Everyone was getting sick left and right on the boat, foreign and Korean. I held out for as long as I could about the whole needing to use the bathroom for bathroom purposes trip, but I had to go at a point. I opened the door on five different people vomiting in the sink and in bags...and promptly lost my pizza. Sigh.
I could stand the water, but not the whole smell-sight-sound thing. I stole a stall and didn't come back for a while.
Three hours of boat ride later, we moved to the bus, for the five hours trip back to Seoul. Wherein they played School of Rock. Again. For the millionth time. I'd really like Adventure Korea to find any other bus movie at this point. I'm starting to know the lines and I don't even really like the movie. I spent most of it talking to Wria and working on a piece of writing for neenie. And that, as they say, was that. The entirety of my Chuseok weekend spent traveling.
The writing part finished up five hours before I have another trip to attend to
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Wria, Camilla and I started morning three crazy early. We were up, at breakfast, and out of the hotel in about thirty minutes. A feat neither of them was positive they'd be able to manage as assuredly as I was. But we managed, and we caught a taxi to the top of the steep, steep crazy incline back to the location of the Cable Car at eight in the morning, while sunlight was only beginning to pour down the mountainous rises surrounding our sleepy little port town.
The temple from above in the cable car
The sleepy little port town from above.
The city turns to the right where it goes between those ridges and edges the sea.
There was an observatory at the top, which we took pictures at. Then there was a hike, half on stairs and half climbing through the woods, to a gazebo on the furthest out cropping before the ocean. It was an arduous and unexpected hike thing, especially given my plans to hike to the lighthouse with Wria after we finished the cable car morning, but in the end it was well worth it.
One of the many views including endless ocean and mountains
Zooming in as far as possible on the very far away lighthouse that we'd reach later
An zoom into the gazebo from the observatory at the cable car's end
Part of the hike! Looks easy, right?
Think again! (Camilla and Wria, who didn't have knee problems, waging the jungle hike!)
Very, very zoomed in on the observatory from the gazebo now
To the right in the gazebo
The victorious champions!
Headed back down in the cable car after buying pumpkin taffy
We got done with the cable car/hike/gazebo fully round trip just as the Adventure Korea group arrived there, which was nice. Not having to wait for sixty other people or being rushed at any point. We cheered people on to getting up the hellish hill as we headed down. We dropped Camilla at the two museums to enjoy, and stopped in at the gift shop again. The little woman working there loved us a lot. She called me "Baby" a handful of times, because of my dimples when I grin.
We got stuck there about half an hour. This was when Wria bought most of her stuff and when I picked up my skull prayer beads and necklace set. And the woman gave us apple and grinning and pointed things out, and it was general amazing. We made ourselves leave though, so we could still hit the lighthouse and do it's long hike without missing lunch or our departing boat.
Because I felt I hadn't documented in pictures before and you all needed to understand just how much this city loves/lives on squid;
A close up on the drying racks. These are put out new every morning.
Long distance on one street. Yes, that’s six different racks on different places.
The hike to the light house was hard, and back from it was even harder. It was the reason I thought I might have pushed myself too hard on Sunday. But it was worth it and there were no truly lasting ill effects, and there is and was so much beauty to be found and remembered. I’m glad I didn't pass it up.
The hike to the lighthouse went around three mountain outcroppings first
Beautiful volcanic mountains and the jewel blue East Sea
My cave love returns!
It's so pretty.
Still hiking to, but this is a shot looking back at where we'd come from. This also has the far outcropping away from us, where you can see the observatory/gazebo in this close-up
I've a thing for random art shots. I'm sure you've all figured that out by now.
Inside the mountain, hiking from the coastal edge up now. The off-the-path Path, suggested by locals.
Wria and I were suitably dubious feeling of it
We won't be ever again. Look at the beautiful bamboo haven on the off-the-path Path.
It took our breath away the whole time, too.
A Korean lighthouse! No, really that's it. It's not behind glass building.
The house to the left is where the lighthouse keeper live.
I can totally see the perks of living here. All across.
From the lighthouse observation deck
Victory! Another small port town in the background, we celebrate with water and laughter.
The bush tried to steal my hair. There were necessary talks after that.
Posin'. I did tell you people Ullengdo had more pictures of me in it than ever before.
A last random candid done by Wria, that I didn't know about until she gave me all her pictures.
Oddly enough, this is so completely how I see myself here. Half mountains, half sea, distracted entirely by the experience in my blue jeans and flip flops, totting the expensive camera.
After this we high-tailed our way back, making it in later than we should have. But neither of us really felt that bad and it didn't cost anyone anything more that we checked out about twenty minutes past the due time. I settled for not rocking the boat and went in halvsies on getting a pizza with Wria. Which took so long we had to take it to go on the boat. I ate two of my pizza in entirety and two of them just the toppings as per the norm. Definitely not like Papa John’s.
So we get to the boat. Remember how boat ride three from the Dokdo Islands was vaguely choppy? Boat ride four was a testament to hard swells. The kind I hadn't seen since I was eighteen in Australia. Everyone was getting sick left and right on the boat, foreign and Korean. I held out for as long as I could about the whole needing to use the bathroom for bathroom purposes trip, but I had to go at a point. I opened the door on five different people vomiting in the sink and in bags...and promptly lost my pizza. Sigh.
I could stand the water, but not the whole smell-sight-sound thing. I stole a stall and didn't come back for a while.
Three hours of boat ride later, we moved to the bus, for the five hours trip back to Seoul. Wherein they played School of Rock. Again. For the millionth time. I'd really like Adventure Korea to find any other bus movie at this point. I'm starting to know the lines and I don't even really like the movie. I spent most of it talking to Wria and working on a piece of writing for neenie. And that, as they say, was that. The entirety of my Chuseok weekend spent traveling.
The writing part finished up five hours before I have another trip to attend to
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Ullengdo & Dokdo Day I Day II Day III
