Jeju Island - Koreans Hawaii? (Aug 2008)

Well Korean Hawaii perhaps but competition to the real Hawaii, for sure not. I enjoyed the stay on Jeju Island quite a lot, it was very busy as we had many items on our schedule so it was not really relaxing but extremely interesting, and the southern part of the island was also really beautiful.
We (my colleague Marco & me) were originally wondering whether we should stay in one of the very luxury hotels, we were thinking about the hyatt regency, but I am really happy it was booked out. The place we were staying was great, nice, rather small wooden block houses, with an own balcony with chairs & a table, really great for a final beer before going to bed.



The first day we came to Jeju Island around noon and explored the beach nearby our Inn and afterwards some markets and shopping possibilities in Jeju city. I, bought my own bibimbab pots (two of them) and a set of chopsticks and spoons (they look great but they are not too easy to use). Having spent some money and fully backed we achieved the first days goal.



The second day, we the Inns Grandpa was kind enough to drive us around the island and explain us many interesting sights, always with the help of the local tourism information who had to translate everything by telephone. This was a really interesting experience. He showed us very nice sights though such as some Vulcan craters. great beaches and nice temples. Me personally I was most impressed by the beautiful landscapes.



The third day, it was a Saturday, we planned, and did our diving. Unless the sea was quite rough that day, it was a cool experience. It was my very first current diving experience but I think I did rather good. After the second dive the island was entirely flooded making it rather difficult to pack all stuff and to stay organized. There were very many fishes, and even we saw a fugo, my first in real live.






Afterwards we did some sight seeing in the southern part of Jeju Island which was mainly dominated by stiff coast.






On Sunday morning the Journey ended, we went back to Seoul from where we changed to a plane to Tokyo - and all I further did this day was sleeping, I think you can understand that, I was just pooped.