Seaside Tourist Hotel Jeju City

... sea are beautiful as well. The walk up is supposed to take "about an hour" according to all of the tourist materials. I don't know if that means for the elderly or women wearing heals, but we saw both of those groups make it up pretty quickly too. It takes about 20 minutes to climb up the continuous staircase that goes up to the top. From there we were able to look out and get a pretty great view. I think Justin brought the warm weather with him because ...

... explaining things to me in Korean, interspersed with fautly English words while I smiled and looked blank.

The journey form Busan to Jeju island takes about 11 hours in total overnight and gets in the Ferry terminal at 6am. I decided to chance it and rather than booking a first or second class ticket which gets you a private or shared cabin respectivly, I went for a 3rd class ticket which, at around 25 pounds allowed me to bunk down on the floor in ...

... though this cycle of destruction in Afghanistan and Iraq will continue for a very long time than the near decade it has already, of course understanding that this seems to be the norm over history in this place. As every child, father, mother, grandparent, uncle, aunt, sibling, and best friend sees a loved one dismembered or blown into a million pieces it is they that will take up arms down the road. But hey that's good fore making money right? The more bombs dropped, robot killing ...

... town possess a quite charming park on a little island linked to the mainland by a bridge. From there, I tought to get a boat to Jeju island, or if there was none, a plane. Well, there wasn't any boats (ok, so I tought this might happen), but furthermore, the flights are only on Friday and Sunday (I had to leave on Wednesday). Ok... So the plan was then to get to the capital of the province, Gwangju, and get a plane from there. That took me a ...

... under one hundred are very attractive. Maybe it's because everyone is skinny. -The Korean cinema is good. I saw a The Dark Knight poster. Oh, here are some funny things. Though most things are either the same price here or cheaper. The Ramon noodles, not name brand but same idea, are more expensive. I paid 2,000 won (about two dollars) for five of them, though they were bigger and better it was odd. Oh fyl peanut butter and deodorant are ...

... and had dinner at a Western style sports bar call geckos. This place had some serious Fish and Chips. When the English diver and his English buddy joined me later they were also seriously impressed with the meal and it became a favorite topic for the rest of the night.
Seogwipo, Jeju Island, Korea Rep. justinoxxii

... destination for the Koreans", it was very clean and the locals very friendly, unfortunately most didn't speak English, which proved to be a challenge when eating out, we used a mix of sign language, Chinese, English and Japanese (don't know why that works), and managed to get by. The itinery of the following days mostly went like this: sightseeing - food - shopping- food - sightseeing - food ...

... including gorgeous botanical gardens. The highlight here were the two caves we walked through. The caves on Jeju are the only place where stalactites/stalagmites grow in lava caves. The first cave was called the two dragon cave because of the shape of the walls inside. The dripping water continues to change the shape of these caves and there are places where the ...

... It was an assortment of music, we watched some drumming and after we left we could hear opera singers. Outside the auditorium, there was a group of people playing badminton. They love it! They play it everywhere... because people don't have back yards they are always out in parks playing badminton, basketball, soccer etc. We stopped to look at a crane game (oh, the crane game... dangerously addictive - its like the skill testers we have in Oz but horizontal ...

... the ferry across to Cheju-Du (island). I spent breakfast with the cute lady who runs the hostel and she even gave me a hug before I left. How sweet was that! Maybe she was thanking me for not killing her grandfather clock! By the time I boarded the ferry the wind had picked up and the day really wasn't so nice anymore. But I didn't allow that to change my happy mood. The ferry finally began its journey and we ...