Sokcho Railbike

The third day, we were already in Gangreung, and we stayed over in a Hanok Village. A hanok basically means a Korean-style house, nothing like the skyscrapers you see these days in modern Seoul. They were huge short houses that had a very wide range, usually placed together to form a village of many families together. These houses, didn't have electricity and air-conditioning in the olden days obviously, but have been refurnished and renovated for the convenience of tourists and locals alike.

If you're looking to stay at somewhere more different from usual hotels or guesthouses, you might want to try a hanok stay. Though I would recommend not going during summer, because creepy crawlies, bugs and mosquitoes are rampant throughout the night. Air-conditioning might help your situation, but still.. better off without them bugs. On top of that, they're pretty cheap, going at the rate of 5,000W per night for Adults, 3,000W per night for Youth, and 2,000W per night for Children.

The place is called: Hanok Village

Located at: 강원도 강릉시 운정동 63 운정길

Naver maps: http://goo.gl/IwcxuH

Breakfast for the morning

After breakfast, we got on the bus again, this time to the most anticipated part of this trip: Rail biking!! If you have never heard of this before, it's basically a type of bicycle (2-seater or 4-seater) and you have to pedal and it moves along the rail. Some sort of a manually powered train. Of course, with modern times comes modern technology, other than pedaling, there is an automated motorized system which would help you power it without using your legs.

The ticket office

So according to the information here, you are able to take it from 2 different places, Jeongdongjin Station and Sandglass Park. There are 2 different kinds of railbikes as mentioned (2-seaters and 4-seaters) and they operate at an interval every hour. It costs 20,000W for a 2-seater and 30,000W for a 4-seater bike. We gathered there, and lined up and waited to be called upon to move out.

The entire place was really cute and it gave me a feeling of a little theme park that I loved going to as kids, where I can ride in little motorized cars, on mini sized roads and have the time of my life. This brought me a little bit back to my childhood memories. Anyway, we all got on our railbikes, buckled up and waited to head out!

It was a little tiring, pedaling... Though the ones behind have to control the motor with a switch

There were many cameras around also that takes photos of you like theme park rides, where you can buy after the ride. So be ready to pose when you see those signboards hahaha.