INTER-KOREAN VENTURES
Hike Korea is Korea’s first foreign owned
Hike Korea is an avid proponent of a Unified
outdoor company that specializes in
Korea. It has extensive experience in North
showing visitors to Korea its unique and
Korea as a provider of expeditionary type
unknown mountain landscape. Korea is
travel. In 2011-2102 we spent four months there
a land with a 5000 year old history. Much
documenting mountains of the Baekdu Daegan
of that history is delved in its reverence
for a photo essay book covering all of Korea.
for mountains that occupy 70% of its
In 2013, it escorted five motorcyclists into
landscape. Hike Korea organizes individual
North Korea, crossing from Russia, where they
and group hikes from one-day to many
traversed the entire Korean peninsula from the
weeks of exploration at either end of the
top to the bottom, crossing the DMZ border into
fitness scale. It can cater for a variety of
South Korea. For serious expeditions of this
hiking demands, be they luxuriant, living
nature, please contact Hike Korea for more.
rough in the outdoors, sleeping in villages or residing with monks at mountain hermitages. Hike Korea aims to show you the authentic side to Korea.
HIKE KOREA Republic of Korea Chungcheongbuk-do Soklisan National Park www.hikekorea.com www.onekoreaphotography.com www.facebook.com/koreahike roger@hikekorea.com Tel: 82 10 29667612 Business Reg#120-10-81984
HIKE KOREA Discovering Korean Identity through Mountain
ALL OF HIKE KOREA’S TOURS ARE CUSTOM
HIKE KOREA COVERS ALL PARTS OF KOREA
BUILT FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP TRAVEL
LONG DISTANCE HIKING TRIAL 735km BAEKDU DAEGAN
NEEDS. HIKE KOREA CAN OFFER A VARIETY
BUDDHIST HERMITAGE RETREATS Experience a more spiritual form of mountain exploration by rambling on foot between mountain
OF PERSONALIZED SERVICES FROM
hermitages, hanging out with solo mountain monks,
MOUNTAIN TRAILS TO SPECIAL INTEREST
meditating, and loosing yourself in the craggy
REQUIREMENTS. PLEASE CONTACT
peaks.
ROGER SHEPHERD AT roger@hikekorea.com FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
Jiri Mountain National Park - 2014 Is Korea’s biggest and first national park.
CYCLE TOURS
Considered the sacred mother mountain of Korea, Jiri-san covers 471.758sq.km and translates as the
Korea has an extensive network of new cycle
exquisite wisdom mountain. For thousands of years
trails that meander alongside rivers and around
Jiri-san has held strong spiritual significance for the
mountains, providing access to many of Korea’s
many Koreans that live and practise their customs
national treasures, religious sites, small villages,
and traditions around its numerous valley’s and
and local communities. Extensive mountain bike
ridge’s. In 2014 Hike Korea is running numerous
networks also exist for the more avid cyclist. In
HIKING ROUTES EVERYWHERE
large group hikes ranging from 3 to 5 days in length. Sleeping in temples, shelters, home-stays, camping out, and experiencing all the fine food customs Korea has to offer. Prices range from large group 4D/3N hikes at $1000 p/p - to individuals at $350p/d.
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1 - 30 Day Hiking Course’s all over Korea
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Experience Korea’s Ancient Mountain Culture
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Hundred’s of Meandering Village Trails
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Seoul City Bukhan-san National Park Hikes
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Remote Island Hikes - Seafood & Beaches
2014, Hike Korea is also currently researching the opportunity to take cyclists on return rides into North Korea from South Korea to discover the majestic Kumgang-san national park on the east coast of Korea.