Sunday, October 16, 2005

Additional Information on Jeju Island

Jeju Island is a bit like Langkawi in Malaysia. It is a huge island. It took around 5 hours for the bus to go one round around the island. Most of the areas in the island is still undeveloped, which means that the beauty of nature remains. They always joke that there are 3 popular things in Jeju Island – Wind, Rock and Women. The wind around the island is quite strong. There are many rocks around the island. As the traditional occupation here is fishery, most of the men are fishermen. Most of them lose their life when they were out for their work. Thus, they have more women than men on the island. I do not really believe it for the last one.

Here are some advise for planning:
1. Stay at places near to the places that you are going to visit on that day. This is because traveling from city to city is very costly and time consuming.

2. If you want to hike Mount Hallasan, be there before 9am. It is better not to go to Mount Hallasan on the same day as you will be leaving because it is very rush.

3. Better get a map of the roads of the island before doing any planning. It will be easier. Jeju Island is divided into North, South, East, West with Mount Hallasan in the middle of the island.

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