The Sunday before my laptop broke (yes, "the day my laptop broke" will be used as a fixed phrase from now on to refer to that terrible terrible time 10 days ago), I went hiking on Seoul fortress wall with my roommate Elena. The Seoul fortress wall hike can be divided into three sections and we decided to just take one of them (all three together apparently take around 8 hours to complete). Coincidentally we picked the section which goes through a military area so you actually need to take your passport or alien registration card with you. The area is under strict military surveillance because it is directly behind the Blue House. So actually you are also not allowed to take pictures (except at certain places with special signs). Good tourist as I was I took some pictures of the beautiful scenery, which was obviously a bad idea. There are many (inconspicuously dressed) soldiers and even though they didn't see me I was apparently caught by a security camera (which as I afterwards realized where everywhere). Someone radioed the closest soldier who came running and was very angry with me. But I apologized and promised to not take anymore pictures, so everything was finally ok.
Seoul fortress wall is going over some mountains, so the hike is quite exhausting and you have to climb an awful lot of stairs, but the view is really worth it!
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| Fortress Wall Gate |
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| On the fortress wall |
If you look closely you can see the security patches which you have to wear during the hike on this picture of Elena and me:
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| The two hikers |
Next time we want to tackle the full three-sections course of the hike (the other two sections are not military zones so there will be more pictures as well :)
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