Saturday, May 14, 2016

Private tour in Jeju - Day 1

Since there were five of us, we took a private tour in Jeju. We had done the tour booking through a travel agency, but found out that you can contact the tour guides directly to save you some middleman fees. However, these tour guides are not easy to find. If you understand Korean, you can visit naver.com, alternatively, you can contact me and I'll drop you a couple of tour guides contacts.

Anyways, here's a list of places we went. The private tour took three days in all, the itinerary we had was roughly easy. If you prefer a faster paced tour and like to add more places to it, it is possible to do so.

Day 1:
1. Mysterious road
It's a short stretch of road, about 200m where you appear to go downhill when in fact you are traveling uphill! A very confusing stretch of road.


When you're on this direction, it appears you're going downhill. But in actual fact you're travelling uphill!

This phenomen was discovered by a taxi driver when he parked his car on this stretch of road to take a break. When he returned from the toilet break the car was gone, it moved off on its own!

When you're on the road, you can pour some water on the road and see the water flowing "uphill". Or you can roll a bottle on the ground and see it go uphill!


And surprise! On the way out from Mysterious Road we saw some sakura! It was a pleasant surprise because we were supposed to miss the sakura!



2. Eoseungsaengak trail
This trail brings you up a hill top where you can see the whole of Jeju city (North of Jeju Island) and the peaks on Hallasan. The view at the top is amazing. There're many crows so I had fun imitating their crowing sounds! :)

At the base of the trail

On the top of the trail!

And surprise! Saw a halo rainbow at the top of the trail too!~

Won't spoil the view on the mid-way and up the top of the trail!

3. Teddy bear museum
Honestly, I'm not sure why I am here. It happens when you travel in a group and some folks want a visit. It's a small museum, but it's overflowing with teddy bears! Here's a few pictures to share!


Korean teddy bear


Life-sized teddy bears!

4. Jusangjeolli
This is a coastal area where naturally formed hexagonal columns. According to our tour guide, these rocks are naturally formed! I had tummy ache after teddy bear museum and most of the time at this attraction was spend in the loo. But nonetheless, we took some photos!!


Click on the photo to zoom in and see the hexagonal columns!


Nature's work that looks so human!


One more image to show it!

5. Yakcheon temple
So after going to the coast we went up a hill to visit a temple. Nothing much going on in here actually.

Orange trees lined up the road leading up to the temple!

Here's the temple!

Temple view from afar, where we parked before walking up!

6. Jeongbang waterfall
The unique thing about this waterfall is it leads directly into the sea!

You'll need to climb down some stairs and over some rocks to reach the waterfall!

Couldn't see the tourists from the above picture ya? Here they are! It's crowded!

Will continue Day 2 on the next post!

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