Now that the weather is nice, we've been taking advantage of some of the natural beauty around us. On an impromptu Saturday morning, we decided to round up some friends to go for a hike. We got together at the bus station and took a 1 hour bus ride to Donghae (south of us). Our good friend, Graeme, taught in this area before and he is familiar with the city. We ended up going to Murung Valley, a popular hiking spot for Koreans because the hiking path follows a river that cuts through the mountain. Graeme took us off of the path to hike along the big rocks, we passed some Koreans that were having a quaint picnic by the river and they proceeded to tell us that we shouldn't go any further because there weren't any people up ahead...but that's exactly what we wanted!
We set up camp by a small swimming hole and enjoyed the sunshine. Later we were met up by some more friends who heard about our outing and once it got dark we built a fire and cooked up some soup and hotdogs. We suspect that some rangers found us but it was too dark to do anything about it. We camped out and stayed until the next day and ate our leftover hotdogs for breakfast, the rangers came back once we were all packed up and brushing our teeth. Two or three rangers came by to stare but because they don't speak English nothing was done about our mischievous behavior.
Its really wonderful to have such beautiful surroundings nearby.
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