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Hey, finally an account of my Roadtrip over Chosuk-Break.
(I’m writing in English because maybe some of the people that traveled with me wanna read it)

Okay, the basics: we left on Friday the 21th around 16:30 with two cars (10 people packed into those) and returned on Wednesday the 26th around 17:00 with the same two cars and the same 10 people (but 1000km more on the bill).
We traveled through a big part of south and south-west South Korea, seeing several cities, National Parks, Temples and much more

(more cut, read the webpage for more!)

So, the travel-setting: Olivier rented with the help of his roommate two cars, a Samsung-Renault SM5 (comparable to a A6, just a bit cheaper , the black car) and a SM3 (Honda Civic to Accord, the blue car (aka. the SPOILER)). We got a group of ten people together, 5 French, 2 Dutch one Cameroonian, one Norwegian-Turk, one real Turk and me. Well, besides the Dutch, the Norwegian and me everbody was fluent in French. So you could hear a lot more French on this journey than i liked. Especially cuz i was the only none French in the black car. But my Frensh is improving fast

Day 1&2: As said, we set of around 4:30pm. As it gets dark in this country around 18:30 each day, we arrived in Nam Won, our first station when it was deep “night”, around 7. We thought that we would have really bad traffic, as all the Koreans were going home to their familys over Chosuk and warned us that there would be a lot of traffic (like, 5 hours for 100km or something) – but it wasn’t all that bad at all.

In Nam Won, we went to the “Tourist Area”, and wanted to find some food. Most of the stuff didn’t look too promising, but by “accident” we found a really cheap motel. Korean style motel. 60.000W for 10 people, one big room. Cool thing. We parked our cars, and walked around the place a little bit, had some food, and then some beers. The usual. But, the city Nam Won (City of Love, we should find out why later) was deserted. Everything was totally empty, nobody on the streets, nothing. So we went home pretty soon (well most parts of the group, but the group usually split up at nights).
Oh yeah, i was saying “korean style motel”. thats close to the cheapest place you can stay here, and it’s really nice. You get a room, (most of the time with TV and Aircondition) with it’s own bath – but no beds. You sleep on the floor, on a thicker blanket as a “mattress” and a thinner one as a blanket. Together with a pillow that makes up for a pretty comfortable sleep. It’s only a weird feeling for us, to lay next to each other on the plain floor.

After a good night of sleep, we set of to see the Nam Won Park, a Park telling the story of a Couple (pretty interesting, i’ll try to add a link to it later) and also some other pretty odd ideas there (there’s a pond, which symbolizes the milkyway, and the bridge over it was the only possibilities two gods could meet each so-and-so many years), but the setup of the park was nice and interesting to see. As this story if really famous in Korea, and because of the many lovestories related to this park, the whole city is called “City of love” – which we couldn’t really understand

We drove off after that, and i need to get to bed