Trip name: Delicious Yanggu DMZ Trip with K-Granny!

✅Meeting place and date: 7:30am next to the Dragon Spa main gate 150m in front of Yongsan Station Exit 1 

✅Trip schedule for 3 days and 2 nights

Day 1

• Breakfast: not included

• Lunch: Wild Vegetable Bibimbap

• Dinner: Gomchwi (Ligularia) & Pork Belly Set)

At 7:30am, we will meet a guide at Yongsan Station and leave for Yanggu, Gangwon-do. (It takes about 3 1/2 to 4 hours.) After traveling by bus for about 1 1/2 hours, we will stop by a rest area. After traveling for another 1 1/2 hours, we will arrive in Yanggu, Gangwon-do where we will have Wild Vegetable Bibimbap for lunch. Yanggu is a mountainous area with so many fresh wild vegetables. You can enjoy a table filled with produce harvested by locals. You can enjoy the Korean well-being table by mixing various wild vegetables and red pepper paste. After dinner, you will enjoy Dootayeon Trekking! This is a place where civilians are not allowed to enter, so for your safety, a professional Dootayeon commentator will always accompany you. Yanggu is surrounded by mountains, so even after the end of the Korean War, the two Koreas fought to secure more territory. It is also a place where scars for Koreans and the traces of the battle still remain.

While trekking, soak your hands in the cool valley water flowing from Geumgang Mountain! However, swimming is not allowed. 

After finishing trekking, we will leave DMZ area to make handmade tofu in a very traditional way. Using ‘Myut-dol'(A tool to grind beans with stones wheeling by hands) to grind the soy beans and boiling tofu in ‘Gama-sot’. K-granny will help you to make your tofu more stable , so don’t worry 😂 

If possible we will have dinner at this Tofu village(Gwong-chi village) with your handmade tofu, but it could be change due to village’s conditions. We will replace to tofu restaurants.

🟡Supplies: ☆Required☆ ID card (ARC or passport), comfortable shoes and clothes for a simple walk of 1 1/2 hours, bottle for water

Day 2

• Breakfast: breakfast

• Lunch: Today’s menu

• Dinner: Tofu Set

For the breakfast simple sandwich, milk, and juice is served at the front of the yard at 8 o’clock.

Please board the bus parked in front of the hotel by 9 am! We will visit the White Porcelain Museum this morning. In Yanggu, Gangwon-do, white soil was abundant and its white porcelain was so famous that the people used them to pay tax to the royal family. You can admire the wonderful white porcelain made by artists from the Goryeo era to the contemporary era. 

(The porcelain museum could be replace to ‘Center of protecting Mountain goats due to opening time change.)

After visiting the white porcelain museum we will visit ‘Yanggu War museum’ before trekking to Punchbowl trail. So you can understand the history of the Korea war and story of DMZ area.

And now you will walk around today’s highlight the Punchbowl Trail, which will take more than 2 hours to finish.  Anyway, don’t worry too much as we will have a delicious lunch before going.

Unlike the Dootayeon Trail from day 1, this is a mountain road, so you must wear comfortable walking shoes. We will go up and down the mountain for 2 1/2 hours, so fill a bottle with water and bring it with you. The Punchbowl trekking course is untouched by human hands, so you can see its pristine beauty. At the end of trekking, there is cool valley water, so you can wash the sweat off of your face.

Day 3 (Breakfast included)

For the breakfast simple sandwich, milk, and juice is served at the front of the yard at 8 o’clock.

We will start this morning a little leisurely. After checking out of the hotel, when you arrive at the lobby at 10am, we will depart for the restaurant where we will have breakfast. At the restaurant, we’re going to eat a special dish called silaegi (dried radish greens), which is especially famous in Yanggu. We’ll have a hearty breakfast and take photos at Gukto Jeongjungang Cheong Monument (National Land Administration Central Government), the center of the Korean Peninsula. Today is a historic day where you are in the center of the Korean Peninsula. You need to hike 800m to see the Monument, so think of it as a brief walk in the morning.

We’re going to take a great picture at the Monument and have our last break in Yanggu at a cafe called Camino Cidery.

Camino Cidery is a preparatory social company that makes and sells vinegar, juice, and apple pie from the ugly apples from Yanggu. We will relax and enjoy apple pie and drinks here and go back to Seoul. (1 visit at a rest area.) I hope you had a great time in Yanggu, the center of the Korean Peninsula.

🟡Supplies: Comfortable shoes, clothes, sunglasses, a water bottle full of water for a 2 1/2-hour hike

⭕ Included: An English-speaking tour guide for 3 days and 2 nights, a tour guide, a 45-seater tour bus, above-mentioned meals, Dootayeon entrance fee, White Porcelain Museum entrance fee, Camino Cidery apple pie + drink

❌Not included: personal expenses, all drinks except water at meals

❌We cannot visit Tunnel 4 or the Eulji Observatory until the end of December 2022 due to scheduled construction. The DMZ area is where swine fever broke out, so they can request a quarantine in several places, so please actively participate.

👉Your full name and date of birth are required when booking Dootayeon and Punchbowl. Please provide your name and date of birth as indicated on your ARC (or passport) to the manager three days before departure. Also, an ARC (or passport) is required to enter Dootayeon, and you cannot enter without it.

👉For a comfortable trip, our travel agency rents a receiver when you travel. Prepare plug-in earphones for the receiver (Bluetooth earphones do not work). Also, prepare a 5-pin charging cable to charge the receiver every night. The receiver will be handed out on the first day and collected on the last day, so if you lose or break it, you will be charged a penalty of ₩100,000 per unit.

🌲🌳🌺Water Bottle: Inside Korea Travel asks you to bring a water bottle for a clean Earth. It is very convenient to buy and drink simple and inexpensive plastic bottled water, but it is the main culprit of environmental pollution. Please protect our Earth.🌲🌳🌺

☺Inside Korea Travel is a preparatory social company that seeks to solve social problems through enjoyable travel. Our main social mission is to resolve regional imbalances in the Korean tourism industry. Through this trip, you will visit the DMZ area in Yanggu, Gangwon-do, an area relatively unknown to foreign tourists. Please, promote our travel agency and rural and fishing villages in Korea for their sustainable development.