After landing at the airport, coming out through the gate, first thing came into my eye were palm trees. Since I grew up in seoul where most of trees on the street are boring platanustrees, i never saw a palm tree on the street and this one was even big, made me feel in a very exotic place after 50mins flight from Gimpo.
*From Gimpo Airport they have quite many flights to Jeju and it's connected with subway line no.5 and no.9
*you can also take a boat from Busan or other big harbors in korea. The one you can get in Busan leaves everyday at 19:00 and arrive in Jeju next day at 6:00 in the morning.
I and my sister took route 600 which is the airport connection coach running in a circle in Jeju island to go to Jungmoon Tourist Complex where we booked hotel.
Running about an hour on the bus, I spotted Mt. Halla, a dead volcanic mountain looking close and far at the same time and the famous madarine trees, which of course made unimaginably exotic scene through the window.
*Route 600 departs from Jeju Airport - Crown Plaza hotel - Jungmoon Tourist Complex - Hana Hotel - Hyatt Hotel - Shilla Hotel - Green Villa - Lotte Hotel - Korea Condo - Jeju International Convention Center - Jeju Worldcup Stadium - New Kyoungnam Hotel - Suhgypo Hang(harbor) - Paradise Hotel - Kal Hotel
and it leaves every 15 mins from 6:20 to 21:50
*You can also use T-Money Card on any Jeju buses, but not other credit cards.
*if it's first time to visit Jeju and has no driving license or are not renting a car, Jungmoon is quite convenient as there are many beautiful places near by and easy to find buses and cabs.
Checking in, what? No Breakfast?
The receptionist told us we didn't order for breakfast. No way-. My sister called the travel agency and after few minutes of a cold argument, apparently they booked us for non-breakfast one without asking or confirming it, anyway at the end we got breakfast for free, yay!!!, which probably cost 15000 KRW for one person, so, capital YAY!!!
*In Jungmoon there are a few hotels and some restaurants you can have breakfast but it's not really convenient either cheap so check whether you get breakfast included when you book a hotel.
Somehow they didn't have many guest in the hotel and gave us sea-view room, looking blue blue sea and sand beach from the balcony. After taking some photos, we went down to find Joosangeolli which is an volcanic geological site looked not far from where we stayed. We walked along the beach. The water sans trash, seeing through clear, so as the sand. Actually Jeju island was one of the favourite destination for honeymoon for long and still is loved by many tourists. So I thought it would be quite spoiled and dirty but it keeps its fine nature so well, I fell in love in a sight.
Not like what we thought Joosangeolli was quite far on foot, i think we walked about an hour in slow pace along the seashore. After paying 2000 KRW per each for entry we followed other tourists and saw bunch of some weird black hexagonal pillars spreading wide under where I stood. I remembered a painting I saw from a text book when I was tiny and that was this view, and it shocked me again with the sunset behind.
leaving the site we checked the map and continued walking to Cheonjeyeon Falls as it seemed not such far. But on way there the sun finally set completely and I needed food. So we turned back to hotel but somehow, what a magic the falls appeared in front of us, the ticket office was closed and all the lights were gone though, we went through the gate and climbed up the dramatically curved bridge to see the fall. Well, there is always a reason if they let you to go without paying the entry, we couldn't see a thing in dark and were quite scared on the bridge, so didn't dare to go to the hightest point to see the falls properly. So this time we turned straight back to the hotel.
As we were starving we stopped at a seafood restaurant which we never wanted to get in but no choice as I couldn't see any other non-meat restaurant. We ordered Haemool Tukbaegi(seafood soup) and Hoeh(sashimi) Bibimbab and both were not bad but upsettingly overpriced.
*It seemed most of restaurants in Jeju are quite expensive, even the taste wasn't any great as the price. So eat Jeju food and just try to forget the price either find some cheap options in the cities.
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