SEORAK
April 2014
Spring 2014, I flew to Incheon Korea to catch my connecting flight bound to Ulan
Baatar Mongolia. I had 48 hours of stay in Korea so I decided to visit Sokcho
City, wherein Republic of Korea’s wonderful national park is located, called
Seoraksan National Park. Korean Government said that this is their first famous
mountain, Seoraksan, located in the center of Baekdudegan. There are seasons
and display various landscapes, around 3,400 strange rocks with various shapes,
around 4 million variety of plants and animals that live in the Seoraksan.
Visitors and nature can breathe at its best, beautiful and famous national
park.
Sokcho
Sokcho City
is located in the far north east of Gangwon-do, South Korea. It takes 1hour and
40 minutes journey by public bus from Seoul. Buses leave from Dong Seoul Bus Terminal
to Sokcho City every 30 minutes.
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| Bus Schedule from/to Seoul and Sokcho |
How to get to Dong Seoul Bus Terminal from Incheon International Airport:
At the
airport, buy a single journey train ticket at the vendo machine, select Hongkik
University Station as you will get off to this station and transfer to Seoul
Subway Line 2. Gets another ticket going to Gangbyeon Station, wherein the Bus
terminal is located. At the Gangbyeon Station, Exit to the left side and you
will see the terminal building in front of you.
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| Seoul Subway Map (highlighted the stations mentioned above) |
Inside the
Bus Terminal, there is an Information counter in which you can ask for the bus
schedule bound to Sokcho. The staff speaks and understand English, she told me
to buy ticket at the window “English” counter.
Buses depart on time. Date and time of departure, seat and platform number are stated on the ticket, but not the bus number. So I took a seat near at the platform stated on my ticket and waited the bus.
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| Bus ticket |
After 1
hour and 40 minutes, I arrived at Sockho Intercity bus terminal.
From the
entrance door of this terminal I turned right and walked straight going to the
beach then turned right on the second corner and I saw a bus stop and a sign
board of The House Hostel, in which I stayed for a night.
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| Bulaklakin pa ang room ko lols |
That was my
first time staying in a hostel. I booked for a private room with private
toilet and bath. I don’t want to stay in a room with strangers.
After I checked
in, I went to the bus stop and took bus number 7 (other bus number is 7-1) going to Seoraksan National Park (last bus stop). There are lots of activities to do
in this place but since I only had 48 hours of stay, I did only one course and
the walking city tour.
Return
ticket for Sorak Cable car costs 9,000 won (372.00 pesos) and Entrance ticket
to the park costs 3,500 won (145.00 pesos) as of April 20, 2014.
From the
National park, I took the bus 7-1, alighted at the Expo Park and explore the
city by foot. Since it was spring season, I enjoyed walking. That is the
type of weather/temperature I always wanted to have in Metro Manila.
I am not a
good writer. I am not a professional photographer. I am just a traveler.
SCENIC
SOKCHO
Thank God I traveled safe.
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