Korean Maples - it's still late summer in the valleys
Fall is peeking out in some places
Enjoying some Korean rice wine and handmade tofu at a mountain "rest stop"
Hidden ninjas in the woods - seriously.
This woman totally conned Chris into making the first impulse purchase of his life. It took us a week to figure out how to eat all that sour plum jam.
Woraksan N.P.
After four buses this wonderful woman gave us a ride to the trailhead where we pick up the trail to get around a national park closure.
Sunset near Sobaeksan N.P.
Looking back along the Sobaeksan ridge
Being above treeline was a nice change - Sobaeksan NP
Buksusa - our last diversion before finishing our portion of the trail
We started seeing a lot more really large and really old pine trees as we move east and further north.
There were also many wonderful silver birch.
Almost the end (for us at least) - Taebaeksan
Old yews (?) coming down from Taebaeksan
Rabbit carnage
Larches - kind of makes you feel at home (in Washington)
It's a cruise ship - no it's a hotel!
Sunrise on the east coast.
Incheon Emo (my mom's older sister), Diana (my younger sister) and my mom
From the mountains to the beach in a couple of hours!
For once we don't look like twins. Everyone we've met is surprised I'm the older one.
Fishing boats in a town on the East Sea
Sometimes you have to work hard to sell pumpkin candy
Look at my crab
Chowing down
Lunch (do you get the feeling all we did was eat?)
Possibly the most photographed tree in Korea - Naksansa.
It probably needs a caption but what would it explain?
It was Diana's birthday so we bought a roof tile to support the reconstruction of the temple after a forest fire destoryed it a couple of years ago.
Remember the crab from earlier? We bought 20. Here is the result.
Soeraksan N. P.
Ulsan bawi (rock)
That's a monk mascot by the way
Who needs a rope when you have steel stairs!
On top of Ulsan bawi
Baekdamsa - on the other side of Seoraksan N. P. People have built tons of rock pagodas in the stream bed.
Looking into North Korea from the unification park. I think it starts at the wall in the middle of the photo.
