Jeju Day 2 : to conquer Hallasan (erm 2nd shelter)

Before going to bed…

Me: Probably we should skip Hallasan tomorrow and visit the museums instead….
B: why? Since we are already here (in Jeju),we should give it a shot.

This is what i love about my man.

And we did. No regrets even though came back with legs that we wished that they did not belong to us after all those hiking

We woke up 630am, drank coffee and made our way to the bus stop. We took bus number 780 to Seongpanak which will brought us to the entrance or the start of the easiest trail.

We were not trained nor geared for the hiking so we thought we should start from the easiest trail.Wore sandals and tried to survive the day with 3 fan duan , 2 breads and 2 liters of water.

The sandals was the biggest mistake.

For people like us who do not hike or exercise much, should really train for this trip if your ultimate goal is to get to the top.

Anyway there was a time limit whereby you will not be allowed to proceed to the top if you get to the 2nd shelter after 1230pm.

We set a goal. To get to the 2nd shelter before 1230pm.

Here we were at the entrance. You can purchase a certificate or even a medal at the ENTRANCE to “certify” that you had reached the top. That was so contradicting. Ha.

The path were just rocks, uneven rocks.

All in all , we took 3 hr and 15 min to get to the 2nd shelter and about 9 hours to and fro. My legs just simply hurt at every move.

Lucky thing the bus stop is just outside the entrance .

And we had Mister Pizza for dinner. Not too sure whether that was a local pizza chain or probably that’s the only restaurant I could remembered that was near our hotel. We had the seafood pizza because most of their pizzas contained beef.

Lucky that the weather was good

Personally I learnt that if i kept worrying how to descend , i would not get to the 2nd shelter. Same applied in life, if you kept worrying about failure, you will never succeed!