lost or what?

The path up to the start of the hike goes past a hermitage, but they had signs up asking me to not go in, so I did not. The stream was nice though.

I thought this might be a wild unmarked hike. I could not be more wrong. Signs everywhere. Although for most of the day, no other hikers, until an entire school group passed me on the way down.

The path I chose up was great. No staircases, no barriers, but a well kept trail.

There are these signs everywhere explaining that you are standing on something ancient. Most of the time I could not figure out what, it just looked like dirt to me!

A low down view of the farmland below, more on the farmland later...

This being Korea, there were plenty of big rocks. Some had ancient carvings, stay tuned.

I was really enjoying this path up the small mountain.

And then, a driveway of sorts! This was unexpected.

A UNESCO world heritage driveway.

Enjoy the view of the farms below, and a nice big rock.

Here is summit number one of 2, I would actually come back almost to the top of it later. My path today was a big figure 8, so up to here, down, up to the next peak, down, back up to this peak, then down again. A lot of up and down.

Just beyond the summit, a view. Looking away from Gyeongju.

A great path, greenery, purple flowers.

And, more view.

Looking back in the direction I had come from.

And now some ancient relics from between 600 and 800 AD. This is a 3 storey pagoda. They are not very big storeys.

Same view, no pagoda.

And since the pagoda and view were so cool together, another.

Another nice view.

And now for the headless Buddha. The sign mentioned the head was missing and they do not know when it went missing, so it seems unlikely I can get the blame. Note that the whole thing is carved out of a single rock.

Across there would be the second peak of the day, after a bit of down then a lot more up again.

I descended on some stair free paths but then arrived at this bridge in the bottom of the valley.

It was now time to follow a stream down the valley. Thankfully nothing too slippery to worry about.

There were a few places that people probably go swimming in during summer.

Now to start the climb up to the second peak, obviously there is a temple, there was also a public toilet.

Nice paths again, and a bit of sunshine.

More views, so many views today.

Summit #2. Also without a view.

But fear not, there is usually a view nearby.

After descending down from summit #2, a surprise dam.

Descending further into the valley and bamboo appeared, and a muddy path. Unexpected mud.

But not for long, time to go back up again.

Eventually I rejoined another driveway of sorts. It was near here that an entire school group passed me.

And then, finally time to head down again. Here is a different low down view.

Along with the grave mounds there were also rock piles on the way down.

OK, one more view, of the spot where you get the view from. Viewception.

I thought that since I passed 100 or so grave sites, I should post a photo of a grave. So here is one. Most of them do not have the concrete markers.

And just as you finish, another Buddha, this time with his head.

And as threatened, I once again managed to exit a hike in the middle of farmland.
I will not be going far tonight, but I am very hungry!