With a hydrofoil ferry I cross over to Busan in South Korea. There is quite a different behaviour on the road here I notice on the first meters already. People drive more aggressiv and there are no bicycles on the road anymore.

To find a good road map seems to be quite a difficult task here. I don't have one at least. On the very first day I already cannot find the road that I wanted to take but end up cycling on kind of a highway to the north. That's no fun. Here in Korea I really need to go off the main roads. I put together a route following the smallest roads that I can just find on my map. That works quite well and in the following days I cycle on minor roads from one national park to the next. Here there is hardly any traffic. Immediately it is very rural and green. Well maybe rather braun at the moment. Winter is well advanced here. The trees have already lost all theirs leaves.

The weather is truly winterly. Very clear skies and stable. But it is cold, very cold. In the beginning that's about minus 5 Celsius in the morning and slowly getting to the positive numbers in the afternoon. Later, up north is is about minus 10 in the morning that even in the afternoon don't go over zero anymore. But the mere number is only one part. A very strong and icy wind that seems to come strait down from Sibiria makes everything even more cold.

Fluids I can soon not transport anymore as they constantly freeze.