16 | Voyage à vélo : CORÉE du SUD en CYCLOTOURISME

16 | Voyage à vélo : CORÉE du SUD en CYCLOTOURISME

We have our bike passport. It’s the most beautiful evening of our lives. In this episode… Hi, we’re Fiona and Bryan, two Swiss who left everything to travel by bike on the roads of the world with a weakness for wide open spaces and beautiful images. We

Share with you here our discoveries, our encounters and our learning. Ready to contemplate the silence of the asphalt or savor the sound of the gravel, then here we go for a new episode. make yourself comfortable and welcome to this adventure.

We’re in South Korea, we’re so happy. So excited, it gives a whole new dimension to the trip. Let’s go, we’re going to go through customs and then we’re going to collect our luggage and we’re going to find our bikes. Our luggage has arrived, it is in good condition, so it’s already a great

Thing accomplished, all that remains is to find the bikes and we will be on top. Hello I’m Santa Claus So good you found the bikes. Where did you go to find them? They called me and said come on, Bryan, I have some boxes, they are a little broken.

But hey, it’s okay! Oh my God. Oh dear, he’s high. but everything seems in order. Express assembly the bikes are ready. Now the bikes are in order and they are reassembled. There is no major damage except Fiona’s bike which has a few scratches.

We had installed protections but they came off. I have the impression that the bike has been returned once but apart from that normally everything runs and if ever from the airport to a metro station to the city it is possible to take the bike as long as it is packaged in its box.

Obviously it’s not a hassle to get them into the metro. But it works and at both ends of the train, there are special places to put the bike. Here we are giving our first pedal strokes in Korea. It’s really classy, ​​we dreamed of it! Too too crazy

We’re not twiddling our thumbs, we’re learning Korean, while waiting for our Warmshower to arrive so we know how to say thank you, hello, 1, 2, 3, yeah and then no. And how do you say yes? I still don’t understand. [LAUGHTER] BUT SAID! You almost have the accent. yes I have the accent.

Today we are going to learn Yes & NO. After these very basic language lessons we met our warmshower host. With all the necessary courtesy we were hosted in Seoul by Song Chan. What a privilege to have him on our path, he magnificently introduced us to Korean culture,

Entrusting us with his way of life and seeing things, explaining to us the functioning of his country and its inhabitants as well as, and above all, introducing us to Korean gastronomy and the immense variety of these numerous dishes these were the first delicious meals of a long long series.

While waiting for the pouring rain to stop, we were able to take advantage of visiting Seoul, this immense metropolis of more than 10 million inhabitants amazed us. We wandered between buildings and high-tech shopping centers and historic temples. Far from the Georgia we left behind. We created

New landmarks in a city and a country where we immediately felt surprisingly good and serene. The weeks preceding our arrival we listed a little the highlights of the country and Seoul but without knowing the country or having heard much about it unlike its neighbor Japan and well we did not expect

To fall so under the spell of life here and these scenes numbers very photogenic. But if we had taken plane tickets for this destination it was not by chance, we had heard about a cycle path which would cross the entire country just that, too beautiful not to see it from our own

Eyes and our own wheels so once the rain stopped, we took leave of our great host and got on our bikes to discover the kingdom of cycle touring. We have our passport, mission accomplished, mission accomplished, we have our little passport which will be

Stamped at each little stage of this Tour in Korea with the map. Can you tell us more about this map so we are here at number 1, right there and so we are going to redo this route that we just did

In the opposite direction because we arrived this way so we are going do there there we are going to go to number 2, we at number 2 we are going to go to the left because we are going to go up towards the

North Korea South Korea border and then we are going to come back and we will do all that 3, 4, 5 Afterwards we will leave the city and suddenly there are all the stages which are well drawn if it is not done well and there we

Have the little magnificent passport of good quality where you will have to write the sound of the gravel a little photo of us or our logo to see and especially here in fact we are going to put the small stamps that we will

Find in the kind of telephone booth which will validate our steps in fact and in fact if you validate all the small stamps you can have medals you have to of course buy in addition but really it’s luxurious eh and we’re going to go and validate our first

Stamp yes we’re going towards there we’re off to our first stamping in a small London booth obviously what a tour we’re going to take Korea we are going to do this tour from

This point here and we are going to do everything tit tac, we are going to go down to the city of Busan which is the 2nd largest city in the country after Seoul, of course and then we are going to have to go back up here in the middle

Like that to go and take this road there, do this step there, then go there, do this step there. Come back to join this cycle path to return to Seoul and return by bus to Busan to take the boat and

Go elsewhere and suddenly we see that the first stamp is this one, first stamp it’s done! yes! Let’s go. [music] SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND SHARE 🙂 [music] Wake up in the area right next to the border with North Korea and we are going to return since

It was a round trip so there we are going to return in Seoul unfortunately it’s Bryan’s turn to have the mattress which burst he had to reinflate it four times that night so no fun. I thought that mine was infallible and that it would not have the defect that all these mattresses

Have two thermos welds which failed. I hope that these will be the only two for a long time. Advice to give you the Decathlon mattress, it is top since I bought a new mattress I

Sleep very well and in the other surprises level of breakage that we have it was last night that we noticed that the roof arch of our tent had broken all the arches of of the tent that we

Have had for 4 years we let go then now it is the big arch here and then we see some really nice signs of wear which appear there on the sides the tent is more than 4 years old so

It has all the same well lived there we will see for the moment we will make do with it we will see if we manage to have good equipment we will perhaps have the tent of ours, perhaps who it is.

There we see three lines so the middle one is the real border between the two countries and the top line and the bottom line are in fact the two countries which moved back 2 km each to create this DMZ zone

Which is between these two points 4 km of no-man’s land, yeah and then they decided to move back 2 km each at the armistice but in reality apparently they never signed a peace treaty so right there in front of this barrier that this one was planted exactly 2 km from the border

And there is the same thing on the other side and there opposite you can take the cabins to go to the other side an observatory to see North Korea and in normal times there is also the possibility

Of going to the place where all the decisions are taken between the two countries and where there are the two armies looking at each other face to face so it must surely be from the other side of the

Mountain but the problem is that there has been a problem in recent weeks and as a result it is closed. [music] There are even roundabouts for bikes, look at me, that’s the little roundabout right there. [music] So what’s happening to us tonight Fiona? All the campsites in Seoul are full.

Big misadventure, even though we didn’t expect it. that two campsites in a row at the entrance to the city of Seoul are full this evening. We eat to forget, go for a good little dish, a small piece of chicken and then some rice and then a small dessert.

I might as well tell you, for a lousy evening, Korea is the perfect way to find a shop and heat a dish in the microwave at 7 p.m. whereas normally when we did

Bivouac there was nothing and on top of that we had a succulent dessert so frankly this country is already too much madness and for the moment we only eat and then the advantage is that we can always heat it

In the microwave and we don’t need to use our gas stove suddenly it changes, it’s another atmosphere. It’s so good, milk bun with red bean puree. 10:23 p.m. We cycle through Seoul, frankly, it’s the most beautiful evening of our lives, the atmosphere is just magical, the full moon

The illuminated buildings reflecting in the water the thousands of cyclists we pass who are pedaling a too much beautiful moment that we are too happy to experience. Ultimately no camping but a magnificent evening in and Seoul. Cycling but going through the city at night is just ding, ding, ding plus

We met someone just before and he told us that we could continue then that when we got tired we could put the tent where we wanted to sleep so it’s going very well apparently so we’re confident for the moment we’re moving forward because it’s nice but as soon as we feel

Tired we’ll see how we set up the tent we’re super confident here it’s so happy we really have a lot to learn in this culture they are all there playing , having a little drink in absolute calm no one is arguing we feel a soothing calm everywhere. [music]

Hello, so last night we had a really nice, completely improvised evening. We didn’t know what we were really doing but we saw a city that was incredible at night. We were wondering where we were going to sleep because, frankly, we are in the city there are people

Everywhere so we were a little hesitant and we found ourselves here in the middle we were able to pitch our tent. So of course we found ourselves right in the middle of a motorway intersection and it’s really

Not quiet at all but it doesn’t matter we weren’t disturbed we had a good night’s sleep it’s 6:30 a.m. so we really had a early night we landed here last night at midnight. But it doesn’t matter,

It was definitely worth it and there we have the magnificent sunrise over the city, it’s honestly incredible. [music] Here is breakfast so instead of eating fruit here, we take orange juice because fruit is considered a gift and therefore it costs

Very expensive and we were worried little in fact there is no reason to worry there are plenty of alternatives in fact to fruit to continue taking good vitamin C so serve that perhaps a little more sugar. How in juices it doesn’t matter we

Have a bike so all this energy is consumed and at worst there is always a food compliment. Here there are sports fields for everyone third baseball field in a row and now with a golf course. [music] SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND SHARE 🙂 [music]

Look at these places to rest, recover, do a little sport parasols frankly we are in a world that is different, really really. We’re taking a 4-hour break today in a little cabin that we usually use to sleep, what’s good about the rice triangles. The “4Rivers” cycle path takes us along

Waterways as its name suggests, the route is certainly very urbanized but the greenery and the ease of moving supplies and rest enchants us, we zigzag on one side to the other bank and take the numerous dams that the country has, rather

Impressive and never-similar buildings which allow the water level of the river to be regulated. [ music ] SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND SHARE 🙂 [ music ] So we just started the day of cycling very late, we barely made it…

We didn’t even make it 1 km and then we came across a cafe who really caught our eye since he makes a dish very specific to Korea which has a kind of dessert, an ice cream that is just incredible and is huge to share, we fell for it and

Offered it to each other, so you can see it’s red bean paste, cornflakes and fines, bon appetit. Here is a version of Madame Riat in great shape, motivated as ever after her mega-sweet dessert. So this morning we wake up with the magnificent sky which is just behind me but except that it

‘s the face of a person who was woken up at 5:30 a.m. last night we found our bivouac in the night at least 5:30 a.m. a lot of people who we talk we start to hear noises first we think there is the bike leaving and in fact we quickly understood what was happening

Behind the tent so that’s our tent with Bryan waking up like a little cat that’s our bike, look what’s happening behind the tourists have stood in front of a golf course. It must still be said that they are much too sporty.

All these people, you see they arrived at 5:30 in the morning to play golf but who is going to play golf at 5:30 in the morning?! I have never seen a country so active, well that’s it, we will be so active now we are awake we will fold the tent and set sail.

[music] We find ourselves doing quite a climb and we’re not going very high, I think we started at 100m. And we’re going to go up to 300-400m for the little stop in TBILISI, plus do some flat work here, we feel that we’ve lost a little bit of

Our physical condition, which we had gained very well in Albania, we make a face but it’s rising and we’re is on a road and there is not a cat it is absolute tranquility. We have Fiona behind who is attacked by flies

Ouch ouch, one night without showering and then it’s gone. Today we’ve already done a first climb and now we’re going back up, so we might as well tell you that it’s been a long time since we’ve done this much climbing and we’re drooling. [music]

You go up a hill and then there’s a guy playing music, isn’t that beautiful? it should be in all the passes. We arrived at the top of the pass, we are so happy and on top of that we had the

Chance during the climb of the pass to meet an American of Korean origin with whom we spoke a few words, then he caught up with us at the summit and he offered to treat us to an ice cream so frankly arrivals at the top of a pass like that we want it every

Day it’s really a pleasure a pass a meeting an ice cream what do we want from better. Too, too, too cute, we have just stopped to stamp our passport and there is a Korean who arrives who is very nice. He went back to his

Car and actually went to get us some things that he had in his car: a bottle of water, a small carton of milk, some cakes, but really lovely cookies, but what a great day it was. what finally an ice cream before

The pass now we have snacks day which ends but just too good there. One of the things that we particularly appreciate here in South Korea is the ease with which we can bivouac, certainly a little in full view of everyone, but

Since it is tolerated and the atmosphere is very peaceful, we feel good and safe everywhere, even on the outskirts of towns, out of respect, we are careful, however, to put up the tent only once night falls and to leave early the next morning, very often we

Fall asleep and wake up surrounded by sportsmen, it’s impressive like the Koreans are active every day we pass many sports fields where there is always activity whether day or night it is inspiring and it motivates us even more to cycle. There is definitely everything you need here, there is the piggy bank

To put the money in and there is a freezer that is shielded with frozen water. Big ball it goes up severely we can’t even push the bikes how much percent?? COME ON. I know if we’re going to see on camera how steep it is. Go ahead and there it continues to rise.

This morning we didn’t have much breakfast, just a cereal bar and we said to ourselves it’s going to be full, we’re going to do 20 km – 30 km quickly with just a cereal bar in our stomach to get to the first Shop and make some no, they put a huge

Climb right in the middle and so we can’t be smart there because we’re too hungry. Fiona has just left because there is a barefoot path down there. It’s great, a little morning of cycling, a little nap, a barefoot trail, if this country

Isn’t the paradise of peace, it’s so peaceful here, it feels so good. The day sets quite quickly the sun will set within half an hour normally it should be dark but in the end it’s not so bad because there is still the advantage of pedaling with the glow of the sunset

And that’s priceless when you pedal with it it’s still happiness. Our route continues and we get closer to Busan on our route there is always something to entertain or marvel at whether it is in front of a temple facing architectural sculptures, events

Or simply in front of the landscape which surrounds this magnificent cycle path. Little ritual we have got into the habit here of no longer taking out the gas stove because we find ourselves at a convenient store like this every time and we go and get our

Little dish, we heat it in the microwave and it’s is easy for dinner so we’re going to take you with us this evening to the convenience store so here’s what the displays look like there are lots of things 2+1, 2+1, 2+1 we’re looking for the 1 +1 often drinks all

Style small beauty products in case if you are missing something, dried things back on our shopping so we have a magnificent tray here we have a run of fresh chiken-nugget’s and for tomorrow morning we have our favorite breakfast, bean rolls and stock water.

South Korea is also called the land of morning calm and this is clearly not insignificant here, serenity reigns and every evening like every morning we fall asleep and wake up in the greatest peace. New day on the road and there we are passing on a pretty little path

A little overtaken by nature and next to the rills ah when we wake up and then we start to pedal in environments like that we say to ourselves that We are truly privileged. So don’t believe that Korea is often flat because we are along

A river but when there are hills here it’s no laughing matter. Here we are going to see badass girl I’m glad you’re coming back, you’re arriving at the same time as autumn. I can’t take it anymore, I don’t know why I sang.

Korea isn’t flat, the thing is that it can go up but in this country every time it goes up it’s a minimum of 10% slope, well anyway I’m happy that you’re coming back to me It was very sad to see you go, my darling. Bye my cute ciao!

Look at that sick climb we had to do! Come on Fiona, it’s the last few meters, let’s do a check…. no you’re going where it’s not cool what you’re doing no but it was to take a step back

Bryan! oh there we missed the check and here is the expected weather view we are entitled to a hell of a landscape from here at the top, this one of stamp it is really deserved what awaits us now

It is a beautiful descent, look and see What’s in front of us is a real gag, it’s not possible. We have quite a warm-up there for the first 20 meters then now we are there it’s good in a beautiful ement but there, the cycle path in South Korea come and do it

Frankly you like cycling you want to discover a country. Come on Fiona let’s not give up I’m knocked out, we’re all knocked out the whole team you see she’s happy on her bike nothing stops this girl nothing stops her I can’t even make it When you push it, it goes too fast.

The kilometers go by and our wheels and our legs take us a little closer to our objective which is Busan you will have understood our crossing of the country we are enchanted so it is with a little emotion that we see the line emerging arrival from

Seoul we took 12 days, 812 km, 8 bivouacs, 2 campsites and 1 hotel to reach the south. Here we are, we have crossed the entire country, the last cabin well done. We made it the last of this crossing but this arrival does not signal the end of our adventure here now

We will have to go back and by the coast this time we will see you in the next episode. The people who told us that it was going to be super beautiful but super hard, they weren’t lying to us.

The last one in the water is the aperitif, yeah but I don’t have any cash! In the next episode… The adventure continues on the roads and on Instagram to support our work don’t hesitate to like subscribe comment and share our videos and our content thank you

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