Thursday, July 24, 2008

The hike to Maayan's mountain - Maisan

Having reached Jeonju, Maayan insisted we go to her mountain.

The bus station was busy as usual, and all eyes were on the two miserable foreigners:



But, eventually we reached the national park. It has two peaks (about 700m each):




The hike was pretty easy, and we stopped to give some loving' to the horses:




Mai is explaining all about her mountain:


And here is one of th peaks from the narrow ridge between:


Note the similarity!





There was a small cave with cool air coming, we stopped and rested a bit.



Koreans have a weird habbit of putting wodden stairs all over the hike trails:




We got down from the ridge and found beautiful pagoda craftmanship,




Buddha statues (a must),






and a huge drum. Someone told us we should only hit it three times. We followed the instructions with an exact precision:







Few meters ahead, we found a temple dedicated to a monk who lived there. His habbit was to build stone pillars (without any cement). They are still standing, long after the monk died:









Mai found another dog to play with:

2 comments:

Elad Itzkin said...

May,Shame on you! stop playing with the food, its embarrassing to our mother, grandma will yell at you for the bad manners!

Shlomit said...
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