Adventure Korea

In an attempt to post some pics from a lot of what I have done over the past year and a half I will do one quick post on the many AK (adventure Korea) trips I have been on. This is a company run by Seokjin, a Korean man who speaks English well, understands foreigners and likes to have fun. So all these trips are great fun.

My first AK trip was in March of 2005 and it was to go bungee jumping! :)

Here I am being lowered into the boat from my jump. I choose not to get wet, since it was March. Having said that it ended up being warm enough that day that I got my first sunburn of the year! Then the next day I went to school and all my kids said "Teacher why soju (Korean alcohol) face?" Very funny but kinda disconcerting.

This picture was taken during the biking section of the bungee trip. If you look closely you will see lots of stacks of rocks. These are rock wishes, piles of rocks that you build and then make a wish on. This trip was the first time I ever saw them, but since then I have seen many. However I have never again seen as many in one place as there were here, millions in one forest.

The next trip I went on was a month later (April 2005) and I liked it so much that I went on the same trip again in the fall (October 2005). It was a rock climbing trip. The rock climbing was easy, but the whole trip was great. One of the best parts was that we got to have a camp fire and a few of us brought marshmallows, which we roasted and gave to the Koreans to try -- they had never had them before and they thought they were wonderful.

On the first trip we finished the rock climbing early and we were able to try some of the survival games -- so here I am -- this was really freaky.

On the first rock climbing trip the second day's hike was an easier one because it was raining in the morning so it would have been dangerous to do the other hike. So here is the group of us at the end of the hike at a beautiful gate that is more then 1000 years old!

In October it was not raining so we got to do the other hike. It was tons of fun. There were tons of little rock walls that we had to climb. This is the type of hike that Seokjin really likes to bring us on :)

Here you can see the view half way up the October hike. The country side in Korea is really beautiful.

This is the waterfall around the corner from where we stayed on the rock climbing trips, isn't it beautiful?

After the rock climbing trip I learned that overnight trips were they way to go. They were tons of fun and you got to know more people that way. So my next trip was again a month later in May 2005 to a fishing village on an island on the south coast.

Since we had gone to a fishing village the main goal was to head out on a boat and try some extra fresh sushi. It was delicious!

We also go to try plowing a field using an ox, and we learned how to plant rice.

In the town we all stayed in houses with families and the older women (adjumas) took care of us. They cooked all our meals and they were great. I am glad I like fish though, 'cause I thought the food was great while others didn't each much other then rice all weekend.

At night we hung out at the old school grounds that are now closed and had a camp fire. It was good times.

Stay tuned for more.