autumn in korea hiking in ulsan, making makgeolli, mountain top yoga, my life in korea VLOG
Good morning from Seoul Station! I have broken out my beloved hiking boots because we are going to a new city and I'm so excited. We're going to be hiking and there may or may not be goats if we make it to the top of the mountain. We are going to Ulsan, but we are not going to the beach area, we're actually going to the Yeongnam Alps which is a beautiful mountain range and we are going to hike, we are going to do yoga, we are going to make makgeolli! I'm just very very excited. We're going with a really cool group of people that I've traveled
with before and I love them so much. This is sponsored by the Korea Tourism Organization and later in October, Yeongnam Alps is actually holding a Yeongnam Alps Trail Festival where we're all gonna be hiking, having a good time, so yeah I will give you a little preview of what that's like. We're gonna see it for the first time together and let's get some coffee. We're going to jump on the KTX. We're all going to do a little covid test. Remember when I said I hoped that that last PCR test was my last one? Didn't work out that way, but safety first! And... let's go to Ulsan! So we are at a famous Hanoo restaurant. I will show other people eating because Sarah and I don't eat meat but it smells delicious! So let's go! Ohhh that sizzle! I'll give you more information in a second but we are at a petroglyph museum here in Ulsan where they have two Korean national treasures but we're gonna watch a video first so that I know what I can tell you, okay? Each carving is detailed enough to see what type of whale it is. These carvings allow us to
assume our ancestors ability to observe and express biological beings. This is beautiful! So we're getting a little tour but this is actually really cool. Here in Ulsan, like right next to each other, they found two different really big rock formations that had a bunch of carvings into them and this one - it's a replica, we're gonna actually go see this one, but it's 7,000 years old! Which is absolutely wild. I had no idea but Ulsan is actually known for like being a "whale city." There's a lot of whale symbolism. Apparently back in the
stone ages or even prior to that, they used to hunt whales as their main form of food and they might even be the first people on earth to use whales as food. And so you can actually see like really specific whales on here, like they just knew a bunch about whales, and I dig that and also this building is shaped like a whale. I'm just - this whole museum is really cool. I think I lost my tour guide, he's doing an amazing job, he's so cute. I wish we had more time to see all the little exhibits but we are racing the sun, so we're gonna learn about it here and then we're gonna run and see it in the flesh and I'm excited so let's go! Okay, that was just adorable. Our tour guide was so nice, but yeah I had literally no idea that this was here. Really cool, it's a really easy beautiful walk and there's also a bunch of like dinosaur stuff here? It's just a bunch of really cool beautiful old stuff and you know how much I love that. So we are walking through this beautiful forest. As far as I know, our next
destination is actually a makgeolli brewery and this is apparently, everyone is telling me like the champagne of makgeolli. Like this is apparently world-renowned great stuff, so we're gonna go there, taste a little bit, possibly make some. I'm very excited. So we're gonna walk through the forest and I'll see you there.
Now that's all I can think about! Mixed reviews from the people who have had it [a different alcohol] already. Did you drink this one yet? They just keep passing us alcohol! So this is the end of September that I'm filming this and the rice is all turning golden and also - just look at the clouds coming through the mountains. Ulsan is beautiful. You can see it better from here, it's just a chic little place. Even if you don't come take the class, you can come and grab some makgeolli and some snacks, sit outside, this is your view. I mean, this is wonderful and we gotta get back on the bus, that's what's beeping at me. So let's go get dinner!
It's decided everyone, we have now drunk a lot and now we're gonna get a petroglyph tattoo. Are you ready - which one are we getting? I think I like the chicken. That's - all right. Stay tuned everybody! How do you feel about this meal? I'm so excited! Very happy. I thought these were scallops, these are mushrooms right? Yeah! We are walking in darkness. You can't even - you're not even showing up. Ah, Ulsan.
Hello everyone. I'm so tired. Today was super fun, once again I'm just so happy to be with these people again and we just kind of looked at things around the Yeongnam Alps which is cool and then tomorrow morning, bright and early, we are going to start our hike. I'm going to head to bed, I will catch you guys tomorrow, see you then, put on your hiking shoes! Bye! Okay we have made it! I don't really know where we are but... The hike begins! There's a ton of people biking up these giant mountains - more power to them.
But we're walking. Let's go! Photo tips from the pros. We were just informed that we have to hike for another hour. But at the top we're gonna do some yoga, some meditation. And it's actually really nice, it's quite breezy. It's a little hot now but when the breeze comes I feel good
and I'm with my usual walking partner so it feels right. I'm happy to keep climbing, let's go! I don't know if you can hear me but we're high enough that the clouds are almost touchable! This is the best day ever. Yoga time! Clouds are still moving like crazy, it's so beautiful. It really does feel like Scotland. I don't know if it's because I'm wearing the Scotland boots or what but it is like the weather- it's just, it's so nice and Ana gave me a cookie - Angel.
So incredibly beautiful, so incredibly cold. As we were doing it all of these clouds just came in. It's gorgeous. I feel like I did yoga in a rain cloud but also we're gonna go get coffee and a waffle now. Wow, it's beautiful! Yeah, look at that! Oh best day ever - okay okay! There is never too much bread what are you saying?! oh my god Caryl! She's so brave. Hello everyone! There's even more of us. We're cheating, we're taking a van down.
Hi! We've made it to the welcome center where we're helping film something for Ulsan so I'm not going to film that part but there is like a popping little concert going on right now and I slept so hard on the bus that I cannot, literally cannot see straight. But yeah I'll check in - god, it's just the city is unreal. I'll check in when I think we're heading back to the bus honestly - or the train. So I'll see you guys a little bit later but thank you for joining! And we've made it home! So that was such a fun trip. We went to actually Ulju which is next to Ulsan and yeah, those were part of the Yeongnam Alps! I had no idea that that even existed. It was just really
beautiful, really easy to hike, to get up there - especially to the area with the long grasses. That - you didn't have to hike hard that was like a long but easy stroll and if you wanted to go higher you could but for a beginner that was great and basically if you go to Ulsan station, we took a bus because we were a group, but you can take a taxi and it's like less than 30 minutes - it'll take you right to the entrance point and then you can walk and there's like food and everything right there. Once you get to the top area, there's a place where you can buy snacks and coffee. It was just, for a long day trip, so nice and so at the end of October - and I'm gonna put all of the exact information in the description box - they are doing something called the Yeongnam Alps Trail Festa where there's just going to be a lot of activities and they're going to be promoting hiking all of the nine peaks that go around. Like, if you could see from my footage
how mountainous it was - there are nine peaks that are all over a thousand meters high! And some people like to run from peak to peak to peak to peak. So if you want to do that you can - it's the nine... I'll put it here, it's a tongue twister. It's difficult to say. Yeah I will link more information down below. It was just really beautiful and I can only imagine it getting even more beautiful in like the end of October when the color comes out. Incredible. So that was
so fun, thank you to the Korea Tourism Organization for bringing me along. I love the people that I travel with when we go on these trips and there were a lot of new faces. It was just so fun. I, as you guys know, I love hiking in autumn - I think everybody does so - this was a great way to start it off. And just for reference, I filmed this on September 25th and 26th if you're
watching this from the future so...uh which you definitely are. Anyway, thank you so much to Ulku, thank you to everyone who works on the Yeongnam Alps project and I hope you guys go. If you do go, if you live in the area or if you like take the train down from Seoul or wherever you are - please let me know. Highly recommend. It was just like a chill beautiful day so I will catch you guys next time , I'm rambling again so see you wherever we will be next and thank you for joining me on this lovely day. I apologize that there weren't goats - the goats are on a different mountain. The goats are on the higher peak that we just simply could not go to but if you see the goats, tell them I was looking for them. I saw three corgis instead so I hope that makes up for it.
I will see you later, bye!
2021-10-11 08:01
