Sokcho South Korea

We were excited to visit this port, for one to be in South Korea and to actually step foot in Asia!

Bummer was it was pouring rain, torrential downpour all day. We took the shuttle that was provided at the pier dropping everyone off at the fish/food market. It took about 30 minutes because of the way it had to loop around town. On the way back we walked, much more direct but we didn’t know that in advance. Because of the rain all the bus windows were fogged over so we couldn’t see a thing.

At the market we located a cash machine to get some Korean Won then wandered through the busy market.

We had lunch here, no raw squid for us which is very popular here, we split a red crab sandwich and coconut shrimp, both delicious.

We walked to find the little hand ferry where you can actually help pull the boat across the water with the captain.

Then we explored Abai Village which is another market type area, it was very quiet thinking due to heavy rain. Dave really wanted to try a famous to the area food item, squid sundae, basically a ring of squid with a rice/veggie mix in middle dipped in egg and fried. We stopped into a restaurant and luckily had a server who spoke English to help us as menus only in Korean and no pictures. We just got a plate of squid sundaes, it came with the typical Korean side dishes. Squid sundaes were okay but we liked the sides best! Our server felt bad that we didn’t eat it all, we left her know this was our second lunch we just wanted to try them.

There was supposed to be a harvest festival going on, we walked through it but it was basically flooded so nothing was really happening. We felt bad for them. Below is a monument at the park The Restoration Memorial, symbolizing families separated by the Korean war, to honor displaced people from North Korea looking towards their hometowns.

Posing with locals inside the cruise pier.

Back on ship we enjoyed our before dinner routine in the Explorer's Lounge, I decided to try an Espresso Martini since we were back on early and I wasn't worried about the caffeine this early, I did not like it, way too sweet! I probably set it aside and ordered a glass of wine!

The beautiful red bridge was all lit up as we sailed away.