{"id":170,"date":"2013-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/10\/26\/post-163-at-hwaryeong\/"},"modified":"2013-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"post-163-at-hwaryeong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/26\/post-163-at-hwaryeong\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-163: At Hwaryeong"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you go to a place called Hwareyong [\ud654\ub839\uc7ac] along Korea’s Baekdu-Daegan Trail, you’ll see something about like this:\n<\/div>\n
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Me at the Baekdu-Daegan Hwaryeong Stele
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Following are more pictures of the area around this giant stele [seven meters (23 feet) in height] and comments:\n<\/div>\n
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It says this stele was erected in September 2007. The various monuments and steles like this of the Baekdu-Daegan were mostly erected in the past ten years (according to their inscriptions), in my experience.\n<\/div>\n
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I made my tent and slept in that pavilion (or jeongja<\/em>) overnight, as is acceptable practice among Korean hikers. (I wouldn’t have done this had I not observed Koreans doing it before several times.) It was very comfortable and dry.\n<\/div>\n
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Dawn at Hwaryeong<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
That is dawn the next day, and soon I was on my way. The road here, crossing this low pass, was well-frequented by buses (at least one every ten minutes, it felt like) till even after 7 PM, which in rural Korea is about equivalent to the midnight hour in Seoul. There is a town a few kilometers away. The vehicles that stopped at the pull-over area in front of the stele seemed to be lost drivers checking their maps and one guy who used the toilet and then sped off again.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Finding the trail was a little hard north of here, and I got lost on false trails leading to many tombs. That cost me about an hour. Soon I was back on track again, and headed north towards Songni National Park [\uc18d\ub9ac\uc0b0],…\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span>[I write this from a Jeomchon motel. My trip is ending soon. This is my final anticipated “comfort accommodation” until I return to Seoul next week. I bought a lot of food here. I expect to update next from Seoul in a week’s time.]<\/em>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you go to a place called Hwareyong [\ud654\ub839\uc7ac] along Korea’s Baekdu-Daegan Trail, you’ll see something about like this: Me at the Baekdu-Daegan Hwaryeong Stele(Camera on 12-second delay, resting against a rock on the ground) Following are more pictures of the area around this giant stele [seven meters (23 feet) in height] and comments: Read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}