Spring Break-Part 3-The East Coast

We live on the western side of Korea and decided on one of our Spring Break days to take a drive over to a town on the east coast, Samcheok.  It really isn't that far of a drive, but the traffic around Seoul is terrible so it took us almost 4 hours to get over there.  Our first stop on the east coast was the 2nd largest cave in all of Asia, Hwanseongul Cave. There are two large caves in this area, but we just choose to visit the one.  One cave a day is enough for us. 

 The entrance to the park around the cave.

We had to hike part way up a mountain in order to get to the cave.  They had a cable car that would take you most of the way up, but that just didn't seem like as much fun as hiking up.

It was a beautiful hike-

Some fresh cave water for you to drink.

Ready to walk into the cave-

This picture does not do the entrance of the cave justice.  You can see the girls at the bottom of the picture and see how small they look.

This cave was massive, but it was difficult to get pictures inside a very dark cave.  Lucy took her camera with us and she got the best pictures inside of the cave.

 They had these fun lights in different areas.  This was the only one we got a decent picture of.

After the cave we drove out to the coast to look at the ocean.  One of the things I miss about Camp Lejeune is the beach.  I love the smell of ocean air and the sound of the waves crashing.  It was too cold to get into the water, but just smelling the air was enough for me.  This was my very favorite part of our spring break week. 

Standing in front of the East Sea

Along the coast, some old railroad tracks have been converted into an ocean railway bike.  It is about 5 km one way then they bus you back to the starting point. 

It was a beautiful ride along the coast and through some tunnels.  Each of the tunnels we went through had a theme and a light show in it.

 The Koreans got a big kick out of waving to us as we passed each other.  Of course, our girls got into this and were practically hanging out the sides of our cart waving to everyone.

We made a "rest stop" along the way to take some pictures.

Russ did some push ups at the rest stop.

Smelling the ocean air is good for my soul. 

After the 4sh hour drive back home we were tired.  We took the next day off from adventuring around Korea and spent the day at home.