Baek Du San (Changbai Mountain)

If you reside where I do, most everyone visits a place called Baek Du San. It is the world's highest elevation volcanic crater lake. Half of the lake is within China and the other half is in NK. The lake waters flow out into a very nice waterfall. I visited the mountain in July with the summer volunteers.

This area, as I was told, is spoken of as the birthplace of Korean civilization.

Once you get to the mountain area you have the option of hiking up steps to get to the lake. You get to see the waterfall as you walk up the steps. The other option is to take a jeep, which I like to call the "jeep-o-death", that roars you to the top of the mountain overlooking the lake. The jeep driver goes as fast as possible with wheels screeching all the way. I chose the jeep cause my legs were too tired.

















They got funny signs all over China with funny translations. As you can also see everyone ignores them as well.