Mood: Cold (again, not a mood but there we go!)
Music: Chase and Status Ft Plan B - End Credits
I met Trueman in the lobby at around 9:30am this morning, for our trip into the national park. I only realised it was raining when I got downstairs as the net curtains hid that from me with my view over the trees growing up the hill that rises behind my hotel.
We set out on the 100m walk from my hotel to the park entrance and from there walked out into the park a couple of miles towards a cave that sits on the top of a very steep hill. As we got ever so slightly higher above sea level the rain turned to sleet and then snow. By this time my ungloved hands were getting rather cold! The cave has been used for prayer and meditation since at least the 1300s and has a very small temple built inside. The monk(s) who are there sleep in a wooden box that is almost strapped to the side of the mountain!
After visiting the cave we went back down as and had some soup made from some of the dried fish that I had seen yesterday at the fish market. After this we walked back to the park entrance and took the cable car up to the viewpoint from the top of the connected hill. We did not do this first thing as the rain clouds were obscuring the top station and we would not have seen anything at all had we gone up then.
The area around the top station had recieved a fresh covering of a few centimeters of snow and this made it all rather pretty. We investigated the viewpoint above the station and also the ancient temple that sits on the top.
The final visit for the day was a waterfall lying just under a couple of miles from the park entrance. This had some steep climbs in quite deep snow to reach but was very pretty. Rolf is pictured here also!
This evening I've come back to the hotel and have had time to sort through my photos from the last couple of days. It turns out that I've now crossed the 10,000 photo mark for the trip. Count yourselves lucky that I'm not planing on any "full holiday photo viewing" sessions!
Tomorrow I head south about 4 hours drive to Andong. Time for me to go look for food...
Bye for now!
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