— Travel and Trekking Jots & Shots
Promoting Eco-Tourism
While living in South Korea, I volunteered for the Korea Wetland Project as a Korea Wetland Keeper for a few months. This dream gig of mine involved travelling to various Korean wetlands, learning about each one’s unique ecology, hiking around to experience each area first-hand, and then returning home to write photo-journals of my excursions. This was all to promote eco-tourism in the country, no less!
I only got the chance to make two official trips, the first to see several wetlands within Jirisan National Park, and the second to visit the wetland complex at Upo Marsh. But I’ve always thought that the trip I took to the Eulsuk estuary before becoming a Korea Wetland Keeper should count as well (winky face).
Got you curious? Read the following posts to learn more about the Korea Wetland Project and the wetlands I visited as a Korea Wetland Keeper.
The Korea Wetland Project has released PDF versions of my photo journals of a Korea Wetland Keeper (smiley face). The Jirisan Wetland Eco-Tour Journal tells of visiting areas of the park usually restricted to researchers. The Upo Marsh Circuit Hike Journal describes how I got more adventure than I had bargained for in endeavouring to walk around this […]
Upo Marsh is a remote and rural yet nevertheless accessible destination. It’s a large wetland, so I figured that the Upo Marsh circuit hike would take me all afternoon or longer. Located in Gyeongsangnam-do, near Changnyeong, it’s an easy hour-long bus ride from Busan‘s Seobu terminal. Travelling on my own, I arrived in Changnyeong around noon and quickly […]
Back in May, I had been on a three-day trek in Jirisan National Park, but now I was excited to access more restricted areas of the park and to learn about its ecology. I would be spending the weekend on an eco-tour as a volunteer with the Korea Wetland Project. Day 1 I met my travel companions, Won-ho […]
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