Geomundo: Part Duggae

So.. the adventure continues! Our first night in Geomundo is one I will never forget. We'd had a fabulous day and were all really relaxed. Not to mention, thrilled to be out of Seoul for the weekend! After dinner, and some coffee, we went to the convenience store and bought snacks and beers. We took our goodies back to the beach and had our own chill-out beach party. It was so great! We all decided to call it a night and headed back to the main part of the island when we passed the biggest group of singing/dancing/drinking ajumma and ajushi ever! Haha. Really though, they were some swell old folk and had better moves than any of us posers! We chatted it up for a bit and then went our separate ways, when a few in our group decided that we ought to bring them a couple beers.. you know.. because. When we showed up again, and brought presents, we were invited to hang out with them. They sang for us and the gauntlet was officially thrown down. We sang (poorly and out of tune) for them - and it became a full fledged sing-off.



We were going to hang out with them the next night too, but there was a CRAZY rain storm... so pretty much everyone on the island stayed inside. We did see them on our hike during the day though! Before the rain hit it was a nice day. The sun was patchy but that was a good thing since we hiked the whole Island!

From the top of the mountain you could see the entire village - it was a fabulous view! We hiked to the top of the first 'hill' really quickly.. and sort of took our time exploring after that and slowly made our way to the lighthouse at the tip of the island. If we looked left we saw the village, and to the right - Nothing! Just cliffs and the ocean. As we pressed on we came to a part of the isalnd called "Wizard Rock." To get to it, we climbed down the stairs on one part of the mountain, and then up the side of this random cliff. I felt like a real kid again because we had to duck around trees and hold on to plants to climb from rock to rock, and make it to the top.

Wizard Rock - the point of view of the people who stayed on the trail.

Zoomed in photo of Dean, Jen, Kirsten and I on the top!!

Scale a mountain in Korea? CHECK! (haha)

I took this after climbing down Wizard Rock, and before climbing back up to the trail.

The light(house) at the end of the tunnel! (or..hike.)

CUA 007s - We're trying!

The last day of the weekend we left the island and headed home for Seoul. On the way though, we stopped at Namson Folk Village - which was PACKED for Children's Day. The weather was great, and we spent about an hour and a half touring traditional buildings, and watching demonstrations of traditional Korean culture. And of course - took plenty o' pictures.

Andrea getting schooled on some Korean music.

Dean really enjoyed this part of the day.

The village's signal bell. These bells are in all Korean cities and were rung to make announcements, warnings and on various.celebrations.

I'm low on the Totem Pole of life.. haha. I like it there.

Everyone say "Kimchi!"

This was the sign on our way out of the village.. everything in Korean tourism is so HAPPY. lol.


haha - Oh Korea.

One last shot of the country from our bus as we left.

It was a great weekend - definitely one of our best all year. Erica Teacher says: Adventure Korea Travel company and Geomundo Island - plus two stickers for you! ;-)