Day 239: Gwanaksan Mountain

Still struggling with time reversal, we woke up at 5:00am again. This is good though because we planned to go hiking and it would be hot today.

Gwanaksan Mountain is located in south Seoul across the Han River and near Seoul National University. There are several Buddhist temples along the mountain as well as radio towers and old bunkers from the Korean War. Its popularity is due to how accessible the mountain is from public transportation.

We got to the mountain by 8:30am and hiked up the intense hills. It was super hot and humid so we were sweating. The best part is that many retired elderly like to hike in the morning and were whooping our ass up the mountain. We reached the top and enjoyed a nice gimbap lunch from 7/11.

On the hike down, we re-entered society again and walked through residential neighborhoods. Kieran came barreling down and started cursing; he twisted his ankle on a pothole. We sat for 10 minutes and then walked to a pharmacy for braces, pain reliever, and ice.

Oh, and he likely has COVID from Tom’s wedding (aka super spreader event). Rest of the day was setting him up for COVID and sprained ankle recovery by purchasing OJ, ramen packets, and Hershey’s Cookies and Cream milk drink.

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Gimbap

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