The Life of a Millennial Maverick

Day 11

The morning after casino day, we drove about an hour or two to the eastern seaboard of South Korea to some beaches near Gangneung. There were a lot of military posts from back in the day where I guess they were watching for Japanese invasions by sea. There lots of cool jagged rocks and cliffs to look at, but most of the visitors were divers and fishermen looking for shellfish.

Snorkel divers looking for shellfish.

2 fishermen taking a break on the rocks.

Day 12

This day was DMZ Tour day. We took a subway during morning rush hour which was crazy crowded… almost suffocating crowded as we had to stand for nearly 2 hours to get to Seoul where the tour bus was to pick us up. We had a very pleasant old lady as our tour guide who spoke remarkable English. She was still fobby but was very easy to understand and even knew when to throw in jokes and stuff.

If you’re looking for a tour, there’s only a few companies that do them and I think they’re all pretty similar. I forgot the name of the tour group I went with but it was based out of the Lotte Hotel in Seoul. We left the hotel at about 10am and was back by about 5pm. That was the shorter tour, there’s an even longer one that starts at 8am for those of you that are interested in visiting one of the previously secret infiltration tunnels built by the North Koreans.

Me standing under a monument @ one of the stops. I'm not Korean by the way.

Another monument @ another stop. It was at the last South Korean park before going to the DMZ.

This is Freedom Bridge where POWs were traded.

Steps leading up to an observation deck where we could see some North Korean villages.

South Korean soldier standing guard at the UN sanctioned meeting room between North and South Korea.

At the DMZ. Gray buildings belong to North Korea, blue buildings belong to South Korea.

North Korean faux village. Apparently, this village is for show only as they want to make visible that they are thriving. We were told that if we used binoculars, we could see that nobody actually lives there and that many of the buildings don't have any windows.