This weekend, I ventured out to the ocean rail bike trail! How do you get there? well you take bus 24 or 24-1 (price is 1800 won cash or 1690 with a cash bee card) to Gungchon, say it just like that to the bus driver and they will probably tell you where to get off (I showed a picture of the rail bike trail in the tourist pamphlet just to be safe).
That is what the stop looks like (if you do not make it you can also get off at the Yongha stop which is the other end of the rail bike station). Now, this is very important you must make a reservation because people take this seriously and you can often be left without a bike cart. The tours leave every hour at ten past the hour and take 50 minutes to complete.
As far as making reservations you can count on the tourist information center near the bus station and they can call in a reservation for you any day or at least let you know there are seat available in any of the tours for that day. Once you get off the bus just get your tickets and you can go explore which is what I did.
Luckily the tomb of
You see the red arrow? That directs you to the tomb of King Gongyang (well sort of, you see the king used to be buried here but then they moved him so…).
You can choose if you want to climb the steps to these empty tombs or not.
Random moth? (butterfly maybe I just thought there was a lack of animals in this post)
The view is nice from here….
Look pretty flowers! you can see them if you go up the steps to the empty tomb with sentimental value.
A small walk down the road and you get to the ocean part of the ocean rail bike.
The weather could have been better but the smell of the ocean and the soft breeze made up for it.
Finally it was time to get on the rail bike trail. We picked a four people rail bike (oh yeah you can pick a rail bike for two or four people).
We took some pictures while people were being loaded up into the other bikes. As soon as that happened though we were off! Speed was our game.
and we got to the part of the trail were a creepy doll takes your picture mid way. The Rest of the way you get to see hotels and houses on one side and the beach at the other side.
Bathroom and side restaurants are readily available just a few seconds away from the rest stop.
The rest stop is filled with sculptures so just take in the sites.
A word of caution for those with long legs the security bar is rough on the knees, so make sure to use your seat belt (you have to I kept slipping of the seat).
A couple of tunnels are in the path and well they improve…..
So then we reached the end of the tour and we got out pictures and waited for the return bus to Samcheok
Over all it was a fun experience, and as most of the other people seemed to have hit the soju and were having tons of fun (so if you can get a bit tipsy do so).
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