Now that the biking part of the tour was over we had one last stop by bus to a korean style church. Outwardly you would never know this was a church. There was no cross or anything to associate with this as a christian place of worship. The long main church building was closed but decoratively painted on the outside and made in traditional wood style similar to buddhist temples. There was a large bronze bell nice arched doorways to lead into the compound We could...

After our brief rest and energizing thru lunch we returned back to the Ganghwa island bike trail. This was the only chance for those that wanted to quit to switch to the bus option. We were told the total bike ride for the day was 60km and we had probably done about 25-30km in this mornings half. Back home in Toronto I had annually done a charity 50km bike ride along the Gardner and DVP highways so didnt think 60km would be a problem. I had done that charity 50km...

This saturday was my long awaited trip to Ganghwado island. This is one of the five largest islands in Korea after Jeju which is the largest. Seoul Hiking Group had arranged a bike tour of the island so I signed up to finally be able to see. The itinerary sounded quite exciting ranging from mud flats, fortresses, ancient stone dolmen, to the DMZ and North Korean border. They claimed it was a 60km bike ride but it turned out they had underestimated the actual dist...