Samcheok

This weekend was great but also very tiring. Monica and I went to Samcheok, which is about 4 hours from Seoul by bus. Adding the time for my bus from Jeonju to Seoul, I rode a bus for over 13 hours in two days. Samcheok is on the east coast, with pine trees and a mostly rocky coastline with clean water. There are some soft sandy beaches as well. We first wend to Maengbang beach on Saturday. There happened to be a flower(rapeflower) festival there this weekend too so we saw that too. Then we went back to Samcheok for dinner and headed out to Samcheok swimming beach after walking around for a while. On Sunday we walked along the coast and then headed to the Hwanseong caves, apparently the largest cave in Korea.

The most interesting thing for me was seeing the razor wire guarded beachfronts and thinking about what the area would have been like during WW2 and the Korean War.