Day 3; How to empty your mind, cleanse your soul and ruin your sneakers

So freaking handy, those iPods. Internet, email, watching movies, listening music and what not. So handy in fact, that when you're going on a trip to the other side of the world, you decide to leave your laptop at home, because hey, I've got this thing only like one twentieth of it's size which can do all the same things, right? Right. When it works. Sadly, people around the world seem to be having problems with Apple's 2.0 upgrade, and as it turned out last night, I'm one of them. Normally, that would be a problem easily fixed, since you can just use your iTunes to restore the whole thing. Not so easy when you're in a guesthouse 7000 kilometers away from your iTunes. Thank you Apple.

Anyway.. Today I decided to go have a look at Mt. Dobongsan, where, according to my treavel guide (thanks Mark!) , you could take a nice hike through the mountains. What I expect from a hike though, is like a walk. Through paths and stuff. So, when I arrived at Dobongsan station and there were all these small shops selling hiking canes and shoes and such, I thought buying that would be rather silly. Something in my gut told me that a hiking cane would be a good idea though, and I decided to follow up on that feeling . Some other thing in my gut told me that buying hiking shoes was probably a good idea as well, but I told that thing to shut up, because I didn't want to carry the shoes I was wearing around.

After five hours of hiking, climbing, scurrying, almost falling and climbing some more, it turned out I should've listened to that other gut feeling as well. Anyway; I'm not going to write much more about this, because as you will see in the photo's, me ending up with feet that refuse to do anything for the rest of the day (days? week? month?) was well worth it. Because WOW. This was definetely a unique experience. Enjoy!