Gyeryongsan National Park

Gyeryongsan is located in the mountains to the northwest of Daejeon, only about 15km from my place. It took me an hour to get there, via 2 city buses. I went up there yesterday to go for a short hike and to get some fresh air. As it was Sunday and it's the closest national park to Daejeon, it was quite busy, and there were thousands of over-accessorized (is that even a word?) Koreans on the trails. I'm pretty sure you don't need ski pole-like hiking sticks on cement, which is what the trail was for the first section (and the only section the majority of the visitors use). A lot of them looked like they were stocked for a week in the middle of nowhere, cut off from all of humanity, rather than only a half hour walk from several restaurants. It was also great to see that even on a hike in a national park, many of them still need to yap on their cell phones. But I digress.
Although I saw literally thousands of people in the park, big surprise, I was the only foreigner. Anyways, the park was quite nice, and being in the mountains, was a bit cooler than in the city, so I'm sure I'll be up there again when the heat and humidity really kick in in the summer.