Jagged Ridge Hike

Busan Haps posted an article about the Jagged Ridge Hike, making it sound much easier to get there than it actually is.

You can take a bus from Sasang to Goseong or Tongyeong and catch a boat from there. I’m not sure the times so you will need to have a Korean speaker call the port you want to go to. They leave more often from Goseong than Tongyeong and Goseong is quicker. From either bus station you will need to take a taxi to the port. If you have a large group, like we did, you can hire a bus to take you direct to the port. It was 350,000 won and split with 16 people it worked out cheaper than buses and taxis (we think, including convenience).

The boat from Goseong has a cute whale on the side! At least some of them do, our return one didn’t.

From the boat ride, we saw a lot of fishermen. They set up the buoys with ropes on them to grow clams and the bigger fish come by to try to eat them so fishermen set up shop around the buoys trying to catch them.

Below is our route. We had our bus come over on the boat with us and it drove us along the pink route and we hiked the orange route.

Below are photos of the hike with some descriptions under them.

Rice fields a plenty here

Too many hikers!

Lots of rock formations. Mostly in prayer towers, but there were some cute house like things built.

So steep to climb up! We felt like mountain goats.

Another shot of what we climbed up. If you go to the right you can go around it.

Hope I don’t fall! So steep here we can’t climb up but there are lots of places to sit

Poor tree!

We went around this little village.

Lots of ups and downs.

This guy sold us makgeolli and did a little show with his drum and symbol. Don’t lean on the bridge, but you can set fire to it.

Traffic jam! This and the bridge are new which has lead to a lot more people doing the hike. Many people seemed to be scared to use the steps!

The new bridge! They had to use the ropes to pull it up.

A bit bouncy.The final view of the town, from the other side that we started from.

We finished just after the boat we were supposed to catch and were able to get one two hours later. In our extra time we had our bus go to the ‘beach’ which isn’t great but there were lots of seafood restaurants there as well. It is at another boat port and people RAN to get on it.