5th day, we woke up every early today at 630am to catch the 830am coach at Hanhwa building. The apartment owner is kind enough to send us there this morning and also to allow us to leave our luggage with him for 2 days. The coach journey is abt 3 hr plus. Quite smooth except the part where yy vomited as he may has eaten too full in the morning. After we reached Sokcho, we managed to check in our hotel, rest, the kids took their lunch at the hotel restaurant then we headed for Soraksan.Surprising the weather was not any colder then in Seoul. I even packed long john along worrying that the weather may be cold afterall it is higher here, or is it? There are ample taxi waiting at the hanhwa condo resort and they do understand the destination in English (maybe the few popular sites at Sokcho)
I specially like this stream which is located near to the entrance of temple. The big and off white rocks along the stream are so attractive.
I specially like this stream which is located near to the entrance of temple. The big and off white rocks along the stream are so attractive.
The 10m tall bronze Buddha status situated at the temple.
We purchased the cable ticket ride and it allocated time is an hr later. the cable was rather big and may hold abt 50 pax each time. Levin was calculating how much money was generated from the cable ridership each year. After the ride up, we moved along with the crowd to the top of the mountain.
We have to walk along the stairs and unpaved road for abt 20 min.
Finally we have reached the top of the Soraksan. It was definitely worth the trip. It was very windy and the view is super.
This is how charlie travelled up and down Soraksan.
Next we headed for the waterpia theme park which is within 10 min walk from our resort. It is a 100% spring water theme park with various hot spring baths and theme pool, both indoor and outdoor. We reached there after 5pm and the sky is already dark. There are 3 indoor theme pools ie aqua zone, spa zone and hot spring sauna and for outdoor there are the spa valley and shark wave pool. We are assigned female and male lockers for our shoes and proceeded to separate changing room with lockers for our clothing. After which, we went to the spa zone which is linked to the changing room. At the spa zone (indoor), they have the wave pool and spa area which is a warm pool cum acupuncture bath. The spa zone is linked to the aqua zone (indoor) via rainbow stream (outdoor). It was really an experience to swim outdoor at about 13 deg C. 13 deg C or higher I really dont know. The temp range is abt 10 to 20 deg C and we swimmed till 8pm so should be around there. It wasnt very cold as long we keep our shoulders and hands below the water. I would say even the kids, especially charlie, are enjoying themselves swimming outdoor. As it is too cold to walk outdoor in our swimming costumes, we did not visit the other theme pools ie spa valley (outdoor) and hot spring sauna (indoor) which should be quite exciting too.
One interesting thing to add here is the bathroom facilities they have are the open concept style (male and female separate of course). There is no partition or curtain at all, they just take their shower, dry their hair with the hair dryer, spin dry their swimming costumes in the dryer provided and proceed to the locker for their clothing. All these in nude. Lucky I did not go with anyone I know except for charlie who is screaming and crying cos she dont want to bath. As for me, I hurry rinsed myself and proceed to the locker to put on my clothing. So embarrassed.
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