Lets see... two weeks ago i believe, I went to somewhere outside of the city, it is technically still Ulsan.
(Fun fact: Ulsan is geographically the largest city in Korea)
Now the name of this place, i don't know. I should probably look it up. Its near Eonyang (pronounced on-yong). And some friends and I were in search of a waterfall. Apparently its the biggest in Ulsan? or Korea? Obviously I am not a person who likes detail. Only if i am looking at something. Anyways, theres five of us, our adventure starts around 12:30 and we reach our destination maybe around 3ish, no 4ish. Why you ask? Well, you see we are all foreigners and we have no idea where we are going. We keep asking people who are eager to help, but don't really understand or we don't understand them. We started on the right bus, asked the bus driver and he waived us off the bus to catch another bus. However, that second bus comes every hour. But we didnt know that, we just started walking towards a giant mountain. Then we went into a police station and asked the guy working. He didnt know either, he looked it up online and made some phone calls, and took us to the bus station. Ya, the one where we just got off. It was then that we found out that the bus wont be there for another hour. I kept hoping Mr. Police man would take us on a ride in his cop car to the falls. But no. It didnt happen. I know for (almost) certain he had nothing to attend to. So we waited for the bus, got on the bus, asked the driver if we were on the correct bus, he said yes and we were on the bus for about 20 min, drove through this:
These bus drivers dont mess around.
About 15 min later we are told we have arrived. He kinda gestures in the direction we should go. We get out and follow his directions. Eventually we see a sign that says we are going in the right direction. So we follow. And low and behold we see some shanty town like store and other Koreans with their stellar hiking gear. YES! We made it. We keep walking and find a lovely stream with rocks of all sizes and luscious green canopies.
Oh ya we found more Koreans too. And even other foreigners. So I dont know if this was the waterfall but there were some waterfalls. We walked down into the stream area. I felt like i was back home near Nojoqui. It was really nice to get out of the city and back to some real nature.
We kinda loitered around for a little bit and then all of a sudden a see our friend Garrett on the ground and super pale. Poor guy twisted his ankle pretty bad. So we got him up and towards the water so he could stick his ankle in the frigid waters. I gave him some advil and I told him he should drink the Makli (its a alcoholic drink here, its pretty good) to help him get down to the bus station. But the guy wanted to tough it out.
So all in all were were there for about an hour. I still had fun, i was too tired to really work for anything that day anyways. So sitting on a bus and seeing new land was good enough for me.
Out of all the things to be at the small market by the stream were some nasty beat up kid cars.
Ima speed racer!
Our view from the bus station. Only one bus came up here.
We waited for a bit and then a taxi came and he was across the road a bit and he randomly started spot cleaning his car. Im sure he was a gift from God. We had no idea when the bus was going to come. Two of the girls asked him if he would take us to the bus station. He took all 5 of us to the other bus station for 10,000 won (about 10 bucks). Right on and then we proceeded to go home. This time it was much faster. Our friend went to the hospital and he messed up his ankle pretty bad, so they gave him a brace to wear for two weeks. He's doing much better now.
I did figure out that we went paragliding near this area. I will probably be coming here again to escape the city.
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