In any case, one popular weekend activity for Koreans, especially those over 40 for some reason, is to follow the various trails up and down these mountains. It's easy to spot the Koreans on their way to/from the mountains as they are usually decked out in matching North Face gear and carrying backpacks weighed down with enough food for a small banquet. We don't have matching North Face gear or the desire to carry more than a pocketfull of food, but we still went anyway to two of the closest mountains to us: Surisan and Moraksan. ("san" means mountain in Korean)
It's suffice to say that hiking in Korea doesn't really offer a chance to "get close to nature" or see anything that spectacular, but it is a nice, refreshing way to get away from the city and breathe some fresh air, even if you can sometimes hear the highway traffic noise.
Here are some recent pictures of our short hiking excursions around Anyang, the city where we live. (well, we live in Pyeongchon, but that's the name of the neighborhood)

The entrance to the surisan trail

Pretty foliage near surisan

Anyang from somewhere in the middle of surisan

Jinny and Bessie taking pictures of themselves at the top of surisan

A man relaxing on moraksan

The moraksan trail

Me above anyang. We live near the 2 black towers that are barely visible on the right-ish side

Bessie high above anyang



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July 02, 2009
DADDIO
Very well done. I'm so happy for you! ............Peace and Love and no Students around!!!
July 03, 2009
Donna
July 03, 2009
Linda