Not to early Kevin, another French guy and I seat out for Mount Maisan, or Horse
Ear Mountain. A popular spot for Korean
day trippers to get out in to nature and enjoy a stroll in the sweltering and
unrelenting heat of the Korean summer.
Predictably we met a very boisterous and friendly group of people
from Seoul. Decked out in the newest and
most expensive of hiking gear it didn’t take 1 minute of chatting before the
beer, makgeolli and snacks appeared from seemingly nowhere. Not to be rude I graciously accepted a
crisply cool beer and shared it with my two fellow hikers. The makgeolli was just as willingly received
with the tasty snacks.
Slightly fortified we continued our hike to a temple hidden
deep in the valley. The hermit monk who
established the temple build these weird spires which grace the front end of
the temple.
In the evening another banquet, except this time with Kevin,
Jisoo and CoCo. Back at the hostel we
drank copious amounts of beer with a few other people. As the following day was Korea’s IndependenceDay (from Japan), Gwangbokjeol, we were not permitted to speak any Japanese after midnight. Not to push the limits of national pride I
acquiesced.
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