Private Trip in Mt Seorak & East Sea with a Photographer Tourguide!!

** This is a customized tour, which includes Tour-guiding, Driving, and Photo-shooting service **

As listed bellow, there are many activities you can participate in. Please feel free to name any of them, and we will go for it!! (This tour is designed to be 12 hours journey. After I get your priorities, I will provide you the best plan as possible.)

(1) Going up Mt. Seorak by Cable Car for great view

(2) Hiking in Mt. Seorak(also very popular)

(3) Buddhist Temple : Shinheungsa(in Mt, Seorak), Naksansa(by sea)

(4) Sokcho Beach

(5) Sokcho Light House

(6) Yeonggeumjeong Pavilion

(7) Central Market(also has the most famous fried chicken in Korea)

(8) Fishery Port : Dongmyeong(seafood in reasonable price), Daepo(good for photo)

(9) Sea Garden(beautiful organic bakery&cafe by beach)

(10) Geumgangsan Dojang(the only taoist temple which accept non-believers in)

(11) Nami Island (more fee because of additional drive)

(12) Making it 2 days (please contact tour guide for info)

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Lotte Hotel Seoul, 30 Eulji-ro, Euljiro 1(il)-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Starting from your hotel, we will have a drive about 3 hours(depends on traffic) to Sokcho city. Sokcho is famous for the tourism in Mt. Seorak and East Sea. In Mt. Seorak national park, you choose to participate in 3 activities(hiking, riding on cable car, going to Shinheungsa Buddhist Temple). Around Mt. Seorak, you can enjoy some of the attractions at the East Sea, such as a Youngguemjung pavilion at the sea, Sokcho beach, Sokcho Light-house, Naksansa Buddihist Temple, Great Taoist Temple, Sea Garden(Organic Cafe&Bakery by beach), Fishery Port(Dongmyeong Port, Daemyeong Port).

We provide you options for adding Nami Island to your tour program or making it 2 days tour. As about these options, we can talk about it later in order to figure out how much more labor and expense might be needed.

Here are some of the typical itineraries that you can refer when you work on your itinerary with me. The tour schedule can have changes by some factors like traffic on the highway or the long queue for the cable car ticket, or what kind of food you would like for your lunch, etc... For the same reasons, we cannot estimate the timeline with the great accuracy.

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(Non-busy Season)

- 8:00 Hotel Pickup
- 11:00 Arrive at Mt. Seorak
- 11:00 Cable Car to Gwongeumseong
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:15 Taoist Temple
- 15:15 Sokcho Beach
- 16:00 Yeonggeumjeong Pavilion
- 20:00 Your hotel

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(Busy Season : recommended to start early to avoid long queue for cable car)

- 6:00 Hotel Pickup
- 9:00 Arrive at Mt. Seorak
- 10:30 Cable Car to Gwongeumseong
- 12:00 Lunch
- 14:00 Sea Garden
- 15:00 Fishery Market
- 18:30 Your Hotel

Duration: 12 hours

Stop At: Seoraksan National Park, Sokcho, Gangwon-do South Korea

Mt. Seorak has been known as one of the mountain in Korea. This mountain is said to have 1,000 faces from Its irregular shapes with rocky landscapes, therefore, it is also called as a 'beautiful lady' mountain. Because of its beauty and the preservation of the endangered species, this mountain is registered as one of the representative national parks in Korea, and also as UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve.

In this place, you can enjoy the beautiful mountain views by hiking, or riding a cable car. The route for the cable car is out of the hiking trails, so you can enjoy different aspects of beauty of Mt. Seorak.

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes

Stop At: Sinheungsa Temple, 170, Seorak-dong, Sokcho, Gangwon-do 217-120 South Korea

This temple is inside the Mt. Seorak National Park, and takes about 30 minutes walk from the cable car station. Along with the ancient architectures, what is famous in this temple is, the Unification Buddha which were made in order to pray for the unification between North and South Korea. It is a huge bronze-made Buddha statue, about 14.6m high. Beside the Buddha statue is a gift shop which sells Buddhist souvenirs, and serves you their organic tea for free.

Duration: 1 hour