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.)

So we threw our ponchos back on and headed back down the mountain. One thing I must say I am ...

... for a short break from the wind. Justin was desperate for some hot chocolate, and even offered to trade me for a cup, but nobody took him up on it. So, we were happy to be on
the way down, but after we took a quick break for some ramen and kimbop at the Unesco station again,
it started to rain and the torrents just got worse and worse evertime J
said they couldn't. It might have been God laughing at us, I'm not
sure. But it was a lot of fun ...

... 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 ...

... all are so *******n good looking and nice. I think its because I don't know Korean, which I'm trying to learn and it is hard man, and they don't know English very well-this allows for a lot of optimistic interpretation. Anyway, so my school gives me a cell phone to use. It's all hip and nice. It can take pictures, play games, write in Korean and best of all it doesn't need a charger. Well, it does but they forgot to give me it. Another good ...

... coastline. Old Korean fishing women cook and sell their catches on the rocks of the coast. Never seen rock formations like this before, really unusual place. Got eaten alive by mosquito's waiting 2 hours for the bus to arrive to take me back to Seogwipo. I spoke too soon when I said the buses were efficient. To be fair though the bus had been re-routed to a different road around 50 metres away, the sign informing of this change was in Korean which I obviously ...

... 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 ...

... tower. The gardens are meticulous... not a weed to be seen and all the plants so happy, healthy and well kept. The indoor gardens were HOT!!! I actually thought I was going to melt it was so hot in there!! Especially in the cactus garden. although I don't know if it was actually hotter or whether it was because we spent so long in there. In the centre area of the building there were air conditioners blasting out cold air, so ...

... interesting) selection than the usual stock in conbinis back in Japan. But we made sure first to catch the sunset from a outcropping just west of town; the streaks of cloud on the horizon made for a gorgeous display of color as the sun dipped down beside the shadowy outine of Hallasan. The sunset, however, takes a distant second to the almost religious experience equated with a sunrise viewed from the top of Seongsan Ilchulbong - the caldera. For many domestic visitors ...