Haiensa Temple + Herb Hillz

This weekend, like most weekends we went hiking to another temple This temple is called Haeinsa which is famous because it houses the buddhist bible.

 

I think its like the most complete version in Korea, or atleast thats what I understood from the Korean man trying to speak about the Tripitaka Koreana. For this artifact, the Haeinsa temple is a UNESCO world hertitage site. 

Sunday, we had planned a trip the Herb Hillz which is located in Daegu. It was about a 30 minute bus ride to the outskirts of the city. We were to go ziplining! We ended u doing the King Kong course, Herb Hillz has about 4 different courses and this one was the toughest one. Herb Hillz is like a little amusement park sorta. 

It had one ride and bumper cars but you can do crafts, zi p line and do other activities. So zip lining in Korea is different than American zip lining. We are strapped into our harnesses and given a quick safely lesson. Then set off to complete the course. There were NO instructors on top of the course. Everytime I have done zip line there were instructors to help...WTF! haha. So only two people are allowed on a stand at once, and you cant go unless the person in front of you goes. We get stuck and do not move. 

It turns out that a Korean man got scared and refused to continue the course. After we went down the first zip line he would not go up the ladder to the second zip line. John, said he freaked out and started crying. Two instructors had to come rescue him. There were 3 zip lines throughout the ropes course. All three I hit the padding and bounced back into the middle of the zip line and had to turn around and use my weak arm strengh to pull me back. 

 

This ropes course was hard. They had what I called the bike of doom. A bike you had to ride across a narrow bridge, the snowboard and you had to scale trees. Literally, scale trees as they where in the middle of your lines. It was a good time :) 

After we walked around and went on the one ride which was the viking ship which goes up and down....once again it was a great weekend. We are trying to plan different activites for each weekend. So far we have about 5 weeks worth of plans/ideas of things to do. This weekend coming up I believe we are going to try to go to a Cherry Blossum fesitval. In about 3 weeks, I have signed up for a DMZ tour and bungee jumping with adventure Korea. It should be legit!