quick tour thru JeJu Island, South Korea

Here is a small sample of pictures from my tour thru JeJu Island in late June 2009.

It was hard for me to pick a small sample of pictures that I took during my brief visit to Jeju Do in South Korea.

However, I still tried to include pictures of common items (like fire extinguishers, signs, escalators), scenery (12mpix camera = great computer background jpg), and
really just about anything that I saw there

The audio portion is from the tour bus driver while he was driving us to the various activities. There are alot of
different tour packages available depending on your needs. For example, some of the people in the pictures are chinese and vietnamese tourists since those tour
buses were visiting the same places at the same time. (also koreans from california may be in some pics)

Labels for the pics: (small portion of a busy trip)

0:00 - flew a Korean Airlines 737 from Seoul. Staff were great. (as always)
0:10 - Jeju Island
0:18 - Jeju Airport.
0:20 - Red uniforms are directing traffic.
0:28 - "We love having you here" signs are common.
0:34 - JeJu has alot of different varieties of orange trees.
0:37 - Folklore & Natural History Museum
0:52 - KAL Hotel (from bus driving to next location)
0:55 - Happy town. Chinese acrobatic team.
1:07 - Shila Hotel. 5star hotel. Very nice.
1:21 - control panel for HVAC, Lights, Radio, etc. (don't forget to put the keycard in the slot inside the room or else nothing works)
1:34 - o'sulloc Tea Museum. Fields of Green Tea shrubs.
1:43 - green tea store
1:46 - coast line (volcanic rocks)
1:52 - Park with foot bridge near coastline
1:58 - sign pointing to various tourist activities
2:01 - Buddhist temple
2:13 - Hallim Park. A botanist can spend a few days here. Many many varieties of plants
2:38 - animals and a cave at that park too
2:52 - more scenery of different areas of island coastline
3:01 - waterfalls
3:10 - volcanic center. walk to the top to see more. unfortunitly, was foggy that day
3:25 - leaving JeJu. airport bus took us to the plane.

There are many other activities to do here than just was pictured here. Everything from slow pace (museum, beach, scenery), walking/hiking (parks, forests, scenery), to riding horses/atvs, etc.

if you are botanist or love looking at all the various plant life, then, you need to visit Hallim Park.

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[mitsolas]

I love Jeju-do because of JYJ - such a beautiful place!!! I wish I will be able to visit it before the Naval Base is built and its beauty destroyed.....

[darwincollins]

@mitsolas

serious? a naval base? I had not heard.

[jaguarTN]

@flanker7677 What does that mean?

[fokerul]

I recognize Shilla Hotel! Beautiful place there. You should try the submarine trip next time...

[flanker7677]

"We love having you here." my ass. They love your money. and then call you shebalgeseki behind your back.

[mitsolas]

@darwincollins I heard only a few days and it was by chance; there is no real coverage by the media [we can guess why...] but the thing is the villagers there are protesting for years already, and we still do not get any reports. It is a very sad situation, if you google savejejuisland you can find our more, and please sign the petition to the Suuth Korean President Lee - please google Save Jeju Island--No Naval Base. Thank you!

[fuserpaw6262]

love it, thank you for the upload. Beautiful pics