WEEKEND TRIP TO SOKCHO

This weekend me and some other exchange students went for a weekend trip to Sokcho. It's located on the East coast of Korea and by bus the travel takes about 3 hours. We stayed at a really nice hostel there called simply "The House". I really recommend that place! We arrived there late on Friday evening because we left around 7pm after everyone's classes (including mine) had finished. So we just walked to our hostel, which was not the smartest choice with heavy bags and it being midnight and everything, but since the guy who arranged the whole trip said it would not be far we believed him. We ended up walking about 40 minutes.. Men and their logic. When we finally arrived to the guest house around 12 we were too tired to do anything else than just go to sleep, although the owner of the hostel insisted on giving us lots of tourist information then and there. He did speak a little Finnish of which I was very impressed!



On Saturday we woke up around 8, or some of us did while the rest had gone hiking already earlier. We however, ate a nice and peaceful breakfast before heading to Seoraksan national park and also doing some hiking, a shorter route than the others. We saw pretty waterfalls, very nice mountain views and a buddhist temple. I hadn't gone hiking before on this trip although it has been on my list, so I was happy to get to experience that too. What also was kind of the point of this trip was that Sokcho is the only place in Korea where you can play Pokemon Go! And it was actually a great place for that, better than in Finland, Sweden or Netherlands apparently.



From the mountains we headed back to the city and ended up at the beach which was a place I was looking forward to almost as much as the mountains. I collected some pretty seashells and the view was really nice. As the sun started setting it became colder so we headed back to our hostel to rest for a bit and make some plans for dinner.




Going to dinner turned out to be a little harder job than I thought, since there were 10 of us and each had their own preferences, and also we didn't find the place we were originally looking for. In the end dinner was fried chicken, which was good like always. After that we just wandered around a bit more and played some more pokemon.

 

Today on Sunday it was time to leave back to Seoul! We wandered around the beach once more while waiting for the bus to leave. I have to say that even though in the beginning I was not overly excited about this trip, it turned out to be one of the best experiences here! I really fell in love with the seaside and the mountain views and the overall peacefulness of the place! :)