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Mt Palgong: Hiking into History

The rugged beauty of Korea

The rugged beauty of Korea

Going off an address that we had gleaned from the simultaneously vague and informative Palgong Provincial Park website, we set off in what we hoped was the general direction of some good hiking. The back roads from Waegwan wound themselves through villages with crooked brick bus stops and past fields of Continue reading


Buddha, Manbulsa Temple South Korea

Golden Buddha of Manbulsa

Buddha

The Golden Buddha Mudra

We were off to a bit of a late start on Saturday…Perhaps we didn’t really need that last pot of coffee before heading out to Impo to find the golden Buddha of Manbulsa Temple after all.

There was a small debate over how to get there: should we take the shorter train ride that connects with the local bus for a nice, relaxing cruise through the countryside, or Continue reading