Nice walk with great ocean view in Busan - Igidae Hapalang gil.

Igidae (이기대) is one of beautiful beach in Busan, South Korea, with beautifull cliff and hiking tracks. Quite similar to famous touristic site Taejeondae, but I prefer Igidae because it offers you a nice scenery of Gwangan bridge, Haeundae beach, Nurimaru APEC house and Oryuk-do (five-six islands) from a far away. The location is easy to find and well facilitated. You can find a big map of the site near the parking lot of Igidae.

The origin name of Igidae is come from the time of Japanese invanded in late 16th century. When Japanese conquered Suyeongseong Fortress and held a feast to celebrate their victory at a open spot that have a pleasant scenery, two Korean gisaeng (female professional entertainers) were taken to the feast. They seized a drunken Japanese commander and jumped into the sea as a reprisal against the Japanese invasion of their homeland. Therefore, the name Igidae, which means two gisaeng was given to this place.





In Igidae we can enjoy the natural melody of wave, breeze wind of sea, hiking track, green mountain, foot message track, iron bridge, cave between the cliff, some poem sculptured on a stone and many more. Igidae also one of place where the famous Korean film 'Haeundae' took a scene.



In Igidae, you can see a lot of stone piles. You may wonder what it is. That's represent people hope. They put a stone in a pile and pray their wish to become true.



How to get there:
Take bus no 22, 27 or 39 (from 경성대학교●부경대학교 Kyungsung Univ●Pukyong Nat'l Univ subway station) then stop at 이기대입구(Igidae gate).

 

This is what I got from http://etour.busan.go.kr/board/view.busan?menuCd=DOM_000000205003000000&boardId=ENG_EXPERIENCES&dataSid=10117  .

 

and Here's my Igidae story ..

 

I highly recommand to walk along Igidae from orukdo to igidae beach.

then you can see better view with easy walk...  it takes around 2 hours but from igidae to orukdo takes 30min more...

How to get to Orukdo is take bus 131 from kyungsung univ. subway station exit no. 5.

when you get out of exit no.5. you gota turn around and make s right turn then you will see the bus stop.  Get off at Sk view apt backdoor. most bus driver will tell you where to get off if you ask orukdo.

 

Once you get off you will see the tourist information building and view from there is nice to.. so drop by...  after that just follow the sign  of Haparanggil.

First you will go up the hill and lots of stairs down hill just keep step down... at the bottom turn left and enjoy walk and view~~~

 

 

left small island is orukdo.

 

 

trail is like this

 

 

with this kind of view

 

 

this is what you can get after 2 hours of walk. and more...

 

Enjoy Korea!!!