Jeju Pictures/Vacation Update

Unfortunately, the pictures begin at the end of our vacation but that's okay I will tell the story a bit backwards I guess. Change things up a bit! We had a great time on Jeju Island this past week. Chris and I with two of our friends spent 4 nights and 5 days checking things out. We didn't get the best weather but we definitely made the best of it. This first pic is on the ferry boat home, just after sunset. See face book for more awesome pics of the sunset! :)This next picture is also from the ferry. I didn't know Korea had so many islands around it. Almost the whole ferry boat ride (4.5 hrs) we were surrounded by islands. You could visit some of them but the rest were definitely uninhabited. It was a really smooth ride and Chris and I stayed outside for all of it.

This is a view from our awesome hotel in Jeju. It is called the Neighbourhood Hotel. Overlooks the airport and a lot of Jeju city. We were really happy with the accommodations. Free buffet breakfast in the morning including Canadian style food. That's a rare treat here, eggs toast and cereal. Happy Becca and Chris!
The food we ate was fantastic in this pic is a dish called bu-deh-chi-gay. Ha ha try saying that one. Basically it's noodles kimchi, onion, ham, rice cake, dumplings and other stuff mixed together and cooked at your table, eaten with rice. We also ate at a place that served horse meat. I was a little grossed out by that so my appetite wasn't the biggest. We ended up eating pork from black pigs there apparently it is a delicacy or something? I dunno tasted like other pork we've had. If you get a chance ask Chris about his experience with eating black pig pork.
We visited 2 beaches, this on on the north side of the island. I am drawing a blank on the name but it had amazing swimming conditions. Great waves and sand with no rocks. The day was really overcast but still hot enough to swim. The overcast weather definitely helped the people to stay away from the beach so it wasnt very crowded. Chris hurt his back so he didnt swim. That was kind of a downer but he was a great sport and came along for everything we did. (his back is good now)
On the Monday it was raining so Chris and I went by ourselves and did a bit of touring. This pic is from a Lava Tube we hiked through. Jeju island was created by a volcano from under the ocean and all along the coast line we saw the black volcanic like rocks.
This is from a beach we went to on a little island called U-Do. Pronounced you-dough! Again not to many people as we were expecting lots. So we were really thankful. This was Sunday a really sunny and hot day, actually the only one. The ocean was a perfect temperature and my friend Nicole and I did some snorkeling. Didnt see to many different fish just a lot of the same fish. It was really awesome though. We fully enjoyed our adventure to this island.
This pic is taken from the ferry ride to U-Do Island. It was one of the most rocking boat rides I've ever had. So thankful it was short or a few of us may have got seasick.
We also went to a maze made of hedges and conquered it in about 20 mins. Chris was disapointed because we did it to fast. On the advertisement it said 40 percent of people dont even get through it. Seriously dont know how that would have been possible, so easy.
Oh yeah after the ferry boat we landed in the city Mokpo still a number of hours from our place. We decided to find a place to stay for the night since it already was 9:30. We stayed in this sketchy hotel for cheap and slept on the floor with (cough*) unwashed blankets. Very Korean style and not sure if it was Becca and Chris style but we sucked it up and left early the next morning. Neither of us had ever been on a passenger train so we took that the rest of the way home. Super relaxing and comfortable, great way to travel. I think our next trip around Korea we will look at riding the train again. Well now that you have read for about 20 mins I am out. Dont be afraid to post questions or leave comments at the bottom of this post. Then I will know people are actually reading this blog! haha
until next time