South Korea - Day 2 - Mount Sorak National Park, Shinheung Temple

***Continuation from the previous blog post....

After an absolutely fun skiing session, we headed straight for lunch. Along the way, we spotted beautiful scenery which I can't resist and took pictures of them from the moving bus.

 When we arrived at the restaurant, it was slightly drizzling so we headed straight inside and had steamboat again, with different style and tasted different. 

Oh, I remember asking the tour guide David - "why does it rain when it's supposed to snow during winter?" He's also confused because he says it SHOULD snow instead of raining. Sigh.............

After the big bowl of steamboat for four of us, we headed to the breathtaking Mount Sorak National Park.

I was really really really cold when I came out from the tour bus. My teeth could not stop chattering and I felt the chills to my bones! This is Daddy hugging me to warm me up. Love this pic! 

 We also took a group photo at the entrance of Mount Sorak National Park together with the bear statue. 

Then we walk around the park and admire its nature.

 

The scenery was really breathtaking. I love this place alot. It's like a winter wonderland for me. It's like being in a dream!

If you realised the path is actually layered with ice, so it was really difficult to walk on it. Each step felt like I was going to fall flat on my bum-bum!

But I guess it's a good way that we have to walk slowly, so that we can fully enjoy the scenery and absorb the beauty and wonderful feeling of this place into our hearts and memories! 

Along the way, there are also a few shops cute looking shops selling souvenirs. 

We walked towards the Shin Heung Temple,

where the 18 meters bronze figure of the Unification for Peace Buddha is located.

 The view opposite the Buddha.

We headed back to the bus after this, and couldnt resist taking photos again because the place is too pretty!

After the s.l.o.w. walk back to our bus, we continued our journey to the next destination - dinner! It was actually quite a long way from Mount Sorak, we most of us ended up napping in the bus.

When we reached, we are being told that today we are going to have Seafood instead. We were so happy, as we were getting bored of their beef steamboat. However, when we arrived at the restaurant, we realised that even their seafood is steamboat style. LOL Guess because it's winter, everything comes in hot soup!

After our dinner, we headed to our next hotel - which has a Aqua World Hot Spring! Shall leave the hot spring experience on the next blogpost. And in the meantime, look at the pictures below, where me and my mum braved ourselves to fight against the cold night air to take photos of the fake Stonehenge outside the hotel.

 I wore 3 layers of jackets that I can't even zip up my last layer because it was too thick! Hahaha

Oh, and what is best to be eaten when you are in a cold winter places like South Korea? ICE CREAMS! =)

  

***to be continued......