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Korea day 4

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After a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon and hotdogs at the hotel's cafe, we left for Mt Sorak. Witnessed a pretty sight. The sunrise is sure beautiful isnt it?     The air was chilly and I could feel my nose freezing. It does not felt like my nose anymore. It was like the first day in Beijing, my face were so cold that it feels all strange to me.   The "tong yi fuo". People pray to this buddha hoping that one day North and South Korea will be united again.     The temple that we went to pray and asked for blessings  It was so cold that I also headed inside to warm myself up.   Mt Sorak provides a scenic view as half of its mountains ice has not melted yet. The ground is also slippery and wet, hence, we take caution in every step we took. We took the cable car up the mountain-the journey to and fro took 5 mins   Once, we reached, we started trekking. Th...

Korea day 3

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Early in the morning six o'clock sharp, was woken up by the morning call. Hastily packed up and changed as we were switching hotels and boarding a flight back to Seoul. We took the coach to a local restaurant to eat breakfast-abalone porridge. It tastes only so-so and there is no sign of abalone but only a little taste of the abalone.     After breakfast, we proceeded to the airport for a domestic flight back Seoul. When we reached the airport, we took another bus that leads to the airplane. We then climbed up the stairs leading up the plane. It was a cool experience, but it was cold and windy too. The flight back Seoul took 50 minutes but it was a little delayed, the luggage too. Seoul was -7 degrees celcius, same as the temperature when we reach Korea the first day. We then met our cameraman who will be joining us on the rest of our tour to help us take photos. Of course, he will be charging us 5000won for each photo we buy. We took the coach to Yeoju...