We hiked along the streams and boulders of Juwangsan Mountain and spent time paddling and relaxing. We visited an isolated temple with a cave, then we had a lovely local baeksuk dish of chicken soup with local makgeolli. This was the fifth day of me and Romana’s seven-day road trip to the east coast.
Juwangsan trails and streams
After breakfast on our patio, we made our way to Juwangsan National Park entrance. We passed Daejeonsa Temple and then on the trail. The goal was to get to the lovely Yongchu waterfalls and gorge that seen in 2021, but unfortunately that part of the trail was closed; there’d been a typhoon recently, and a lot of the trail had been damaged.
There were still plenty of scenic sights to see though! We got as far as we could along the trail to the huge pillar of rock before heading back. We took a small detour to a small cave area and then headed to a rest area to paddle in the streams and eat some lunch. We spent over an hour there and it really was lovely and relaxing. Romana really likes to track down fish in the stream!
We also visited a very isolated temple which featured a cave along damp green forest rocky trail. I didn’t get any photos this trip so check out my post from my first time here.
Chicken soup / Baeksuk
We were very hungry once we got out of the park. I was craving baeksuk, a Korean chicken dish, like soup. Sambo Sikdang (삼보식당), one of the restaurants by the entrance, served us a local variety with a red tinge to it. It had local medicinal ingredients in it and had a thicker soup than I was used to. We polished that off with a few bottles of the local apple makgeolli. Delicious!
We were heading back to our accommodation and decided to take photos of the extra makgeolli we’d bought with the mountain behind it in the lovely sunlight.
Back at our accommodation, we showered and relaxed and planned the last two days of our rod trip.
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