Kal Seogwipo Jeju City

... tastes to me like a dead seamonkey. The noodles were probably the greatest thing I had ever tasted at that moment and we lingered at the UNESCO station long enough to let it start raining. (Note: I was emasculated again at the UNESCO station by the two couples we talked to, who were in their late 60's and who were doing a 20 day, 205km trek around Korea. Yup, I'm an athlete.)<br><br>So we threw our ponchos back on and headed back down the mountain. One thing I must say I am ...

... of the harbour from our window. In the evening we asked them for a recomendation for dinner and the man took us to a restaurant that served a set menu that included tastes of about 20 different items. Some of them were good, some we couldn't even touch, like the crab that was "cooked" in the acid of the sauce it had been fermenting in for however long that process takes. Justin did find that he liked the korean pancakes as long as they aren't seafood ...

... around finding it. A nice ajuma helped us find it. The room is huge and has a great see view. It has a heated floor, a tv, and most important a computer. This is probably the nicest one we have rented so far. We got everything charged and then head downstair to eat. Since this place is a coastal city and far from the main city it doesn't have very much American food ...

... plates, the customers received no personal plate all was plucked from a main dish and scooped right into the mouth. Also you were given on Michael Jackson like glove to wear while eating to keep the burning oil off your fingers. Anyway after dinner we went out for coffee. I was so stimulated by the neon lights and foreign lettering that I asked what many signs were. 'Dee, what is the 'Bugs' sign.' 'Oh that is karaoke.' 'Ah, and what is the ...

... on that. Better do it before politics prevent it though....I'm gonna get on that...<br><br>Pauliina leaves on Thursday. We're taking the train up to Seoul Wednesday afternoon. She leaves in the morning, and that night, Romie arrives. Romie's a good friend from back home--my first friend in Chico :) So I had practice with Pauliina, and now I can show Romie around for ten days :) THEN it's back to school!! <br><br>Ok, I've gone on and on. Thanks for reading!! Annyeong hasseyo!

... After stepping outside, I almost blew away. Jeju is also famous for its wind. I was very happy to step into a car and be driven to the terminal. In the airport, we retrieved our rental car after a long lecture about how to use the GPS (almost all Koreans use GPS). From there we headed to E-Mart to buy food. All the female employees were dressed in pink hanboks, Korean traditional dress. The occasion for our trip happened to be lunar new year, (Chinese ...

... get off the bus, she talked to us in Japanese and got off with us near Ilchulbong. It was kind of her to take us to a minbak, Korean guesthouse, which she knew well. Thanks to her, we were able to stay in a nice minbak with Ondol heating system and free mandarin oranges. After the check-in, we went out for dinner. We knew the island was famous for black pork. So we ate it in a pork BBQ restaurant and it was really delicious, although we spent more than we had ...

Day four on Jeju-do and its still HOT!!! We decided to walk down to Yongduam Rock, about a 30-40 minute walk from the hotel. The rock is shaped like a dragon head (refer photo) and was created 2 million years ago from a volcanic eruption. The head stands 10 metres out of the water and the body of the dragon is 30 metres long. The legend of Yongduam is that an emissary of the Dragon King went to Mt Halla to search for the elixir of life and he was ...

... with precious little to see. In light of that, I was hoping our second day on the island would see us in good enough spirits to get out of town. Fortunately, we woke up yesterday feeling a lot better. Packing up our bags so we could get the hell out of our bizarre minbak, we caught a taxi on down to the main bus depot. After about an hour and half's ride, we got to the small village of Seongsan-ri (Fortress Mountain Village), where we managed to locate an infinitely ...