An Eco Adventure at Herb Hillz

This place was a pretty cool find for something to do in Daegu! In just  30 minutes from the city center, you'll find yourself  at the beautiful Herb Hillz park (at Daegu Station, hop on bus 704 heading towards the downtown area). There's loads of things to do, and  if you bring some extra cash, you can even make your own herb soaps, plant herbs and browse the many boutiques nestled around the park. 

There's a petting zoo, some rides and artistic grass sculptures scattered throughout the hills.

But the best part of all is that the park holds 5 eco adventure zip lining courses. For a mere 15,000 won you have access the park and the fee includes one zip line adventure course.  If you're totally game, you can pay an additional 7,000 won to do another course, after you've completed the first one. We were pretty bagged and opted for a few cold beers rather than another course.

First things first, and you get all decked out in your gear. Including a very silly helmet that wobbles all over the place.

There's my friend Lisa tryingt o figure out what goes where!

Then you move on with an introductory lesson- where they give a pretty basic demo, ensuring you know what you're doing with the beanies. It's a condensed version of the real thing.

The guide (slightly annoyed with our group's lack of attention) gave us the go ahead for the toughest course out there- the Tarzan. Despite the temptation, we made an executive group decision, and decided on the King Kong Course, which was  not the most difficult, but was the longest and most fun! Then off we went - we were on our own!

Geared up and ready to go, as I climbed to the top of the first station, I panicked a bit! Never knew I was scared of heights, but I think the fear was actually knowing that I was only connected by two beanies and a wire.

The Guide warned us that if we didn't catch the rope off our 60 -70 m zip line, we would naturally be carried back and would have to pull ourselves back just a few meters to the landing post. Obviously, my first go of the zip line ended in an adventure. Midway through the zip, my body turned and I scrambled to try and get my body aligned again to better land against the tree (by the way the tree at the end of the zip line has a measly mat attached to it) but failed to turn in time, and slammed into the mat/tree at high velocity, winding myself and getting zipped right back to the middle of the line. It didn't go much further than that!! So, I had to pull myslef backwards to make it to the landing-- and it was WAY more than a few meters!!

The course itself had some tough areas and some even scarier ones! We climbed, pulled, swung and even skateboarded across thin wires.

That's called real fear!

The course took the lot of us about an hour and 45 minutes and  despite the bruises the next day, it was totally worth it! I'm still searching for my left leg and shoulder though.... and I suspect I may have left them back on the zip line course.