Exploring Halla Mountain (Hallsan) with my Wife on October 9, 2018-Part 1 of 2

If you don't rent a car on Jeju Island (I strongly recommend that you do), you can stay in the Jumun area and take a couple local buses to Hallasan, which is what we did. Unfortunately, I don't have a Korean driver's license (haven't had a strong need for one yet), so we relied on buses during our trip. The bad thing about not renting a car is that you can only focus on two areas of the island if you're staying there for two to three days. Nevertheless, we took a couple buses (as I mentioned) to Hallsan from our hotel and I will have to tell you that it was one of the best experiences I've had while living in South Korea. I'll let the pictures of us going up the mountain speak for themselves. In my next blog, I will show you the pictures of us descending down a different trail.


After we got off the bus, we had to walk for about 15 minutes to the main parking lot...

Once we got to the parking lot, this is what we saw...

Then we began our journey....

I had to take a picture of my wife with this amazing scenery in the background and we still hadn't even started trekking yet!

Now the real journey begins....

The great thing about this trail is that it wasn't too difficult to climb and you can see wheat fields like this....

But we still had to keep going....

And some parts were rockier than others....

The weather wasn't that clear but if you look closely, you can see the ocean in this picture...

And just a bit higher, you can see a better view of the ocean and landscape below...

But we still kept ascending....

Once we got to the 4-hour mark, we decided to take another trail and head down the mountain. Getting to to the peak would have been nice, but the weather was a bit cold and it was already about 2:00pm. We stopped at an area with A LOT of crows, at least 50 of them and then we headed back....

In the next blog post, you'll see some breathtaking shots as we descended down the mountain down a little more difficult trail. Watch out for my next blog post soon...


Scott Worden (The L.A./Seoul Guy)

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