Jeju Island

Monday, 18 April 2011

Another trip, the time to go to The famous island of Jeju.

I went there, with Tisa, by plane : D, booked by our hosts. It costs us KRW 145.000 for two with Jin Air. We departed from Gimpo Int'l Airport, the same subway line as Incheon airport from Seoul. There are many flights to Jeju, so don't worry.

One thing i like about this Jin Air is the employees uniform. So cool! They wear jeans and T-shirt. Yes, JEANS and T-SHIRT! There was a male flight attended who looked like one of the korean start in Memory In Bali, i don't know the name, but he looked like him. And i was planning to take picture with him, but the line when going out the aircraft was too crowded, with ajumas (ajuma - middle-aged Korean woman) behind you, you need to be fast!

Arrived at Jeju Int'l airport on time and got picked up by Khan, our host from Hani hostel. This hostel is nice, but the location is not like what i expected. yes, it's near a beach, Hyeopjae Beach, far from any other places, but near Hallim Park, a tropical park (KRW 8000). Hallim Park is a nice park, so many things you can see there, caves, flowers (cherry blossoms and rape flowers - this beautiful flower's name is rape).

The view of cherry blossoms and rape flowers in Flower Park, Hallim Park, Jeju Island.

Folk Village, Hallim Park.

Because we dont know where else to go around the hostel area, Tisa and I decided to have a bus trip to Jeju city. FYI, Jeju Island has two main cities, Jeju-si or Jeju city in the north and Seogwipo (sogipo) in the south. So, the bus trip to Jeju-si took around 1.30 mins (KRW 2000). We plan to go around the city and took photos. At about 5 pm we arrived there, and it's raining, worse, quite strong wind and very cold. I didn't bring enough jacket, and forgot my umbrella (This is just one of the examples of my annoying forgetful character, which i wish i can erase). Luckily, Tisa lent me her gloves. Thank you!!!

The weather forecast said that it's gonna be raining that day, but i kinda ignore it, i didnt think it's gonna be that bad. Actually the rain wasn't heavy, but the wind and the freezing air made it worse. So, we dicided to go back. Looking for the bus to Hyeopjae, we stopped by a shop and bought hot coffee to warm us up. It's around krw 800 - 1500. The shop assistant was so helpful, with body language we communicate since we both don't speak each other langauges. She then wrote down the name and something else, in korean. Well, she's very nice.

We then took a bus to the local bus terminal and took another bus back to our Hostel. Arrived at the hostel area, it's 6.30 pm, very cold, dark and windy, we looked for Soju (korean traditional liquor) and noodles, for dinner. It was so quiet and dark. We kinda lost looking for the hostel, but finally made it. It was around 8 when we entered the hostel. Inside our room, it was so hot, especially the floor (heated floor, genius!!), so contrast with the outside weather.
ohh, we had a roommate, Maggie from US. We had dinner together at the dining room/kitchen, with the same menu, noodle. I made hot Milo too.. nice!!

So, that's was the forst day at Jeju.