Saturday, July 6th,
2013 – Sunday, July 7th, 2013
Saturday, I woke up at the crack of dawn to meet the rest of
the group that signed up for an ATV and white water rafting day! We went to Sancheong Gyungho
River, which is about two hours outside of the city. Two buses full of people signed up for this day trip. Like most bus trips, our bus got lost
on the way there so we arrived about an hour late, around 11am.
First on the itinerary was going on the
ATVs. They also gave us the
options of paintballing. We were
split up into groups and off we went.
Some people had to ride little ATVs because there weren’t enough big
ones. On our ATVs, we drove down
one path, took a group picture. Next
we turned around, drove down another path, this one had a bit of mud, took
another group picture. Then, we
turned around and drove back to where we started. It was very anti-climatic. It was still fun and we had the white water rafting to look
forward to.
We returned for lunch. We all had bibimbap for lunch. After eating, some waiting, and getting
our gear together (life-jacket, helmet and paddle) we took the bus to the start
of our rafting adventure. Each
raft had about ten people and a guide. Most of the fun was a giant splashing fight between all of
the boats using our paddles, as two rafts would pass each other. We would float down calm waters, start
to paddle as a group, one, two, one, two, and then reach some rapids and enjoy
the ride. They were good rapids for
Korea since it had been raining a lot before this weekend and we were lucky to
get a rare, July, hot sunny day!
Most of the rapids were pretty small and not very scary, but we did have
a couple fun dips. One raft did
flip over; I have no idea how that happened when our raft was very stable the
entire time. It was a fun group activity and a good
way to meet new people. One girl
in my raft went to the University of Guelph! Now I look forward to going rafting somewhere with larger
rapids someday!
One of the highlights of the day for me was
getting outside of the city and seeing the countryside of Korea! I haven’t seen much nature, grass,
trees and country side since I have been here, so that was a nice change of
pace. Some fresh air and serenity
never hurt anyone!
That night, after a long day, I still went out
to say hi to a friend, Chris, who just arrived in Korea from the United
States. He is someone I met in
Argentina a year ago and I was very happy to see an old friend!
On Sunday, I had a more low key day to recover
from the day before. I went for a
nice long walk after dinner and found a nice walking path along the water,
which connected to the sea. The
walk started before dinner, by exploring some undiscovered seaside fish markets
and then going into an old school amusement park to explore a little. I rode one of the rides just for
fun. For dinner, I was extremely
excited to have found a Latino restaurant that had……..Dulce de Leche!!! :D This was my favourite sweet in Argentina
and very hard to find outside of South America. I couldn’t believe this restaurant not only had delce de
leche, but also mate tea on their Ipad menu (first time using one of those
too). I am very excited to show
Aimee, and Chris this restaurant and hopefully we can reminisce about Argentina over delce de leche very soon!
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