Catchy Korean song.

This is not one of my favorites, but it is always gets stuck in my head.

Korean music.

My new favorite Korean pop song. I like the outfits better in the first video, but the sound quality is better in the second.

Jinok.

So I said good-bye to my Korean friend the other night. We went out for Korean barbecue and then to the arcade... I turned into a 13 year old again in Korea. She is a ridiculously nice girl and was so helpful to me. However, I think she was more upset that she never got to meet my boyfriend. I was actually sad saying good-bye. We exchanged email information and stuff, but I probably won't be back to Korea and as Koreans get older it is more and more difficult for them to travel. She does really want to come to the USA one day and of course New York. So maybe one day I'll show her around.

Jeju.

Me.

These ladies go in to the ocean and dive and catch all this seafood. They will serve it to you raw and fresh with a bottle of soju. These women are at every coastal tourist spot. It's only women that dive and do this. These aren't young ladies either. The one on the right was pissed I took her picture and didn't buy anything. 

Waterfall.

Rather large Buddhist temple.

There were 80,000 small gold plated Buddhas encased around the second floor of the temple.

Bunker.

Lava rocks.

Canyon created by lava flow. (tour guide and the kids we were on tour with are pictured)

Jeju is a tourist trap from hell. They have every kind of museum you can think of; African, Sex, Teddy Bear Museum, etc. The kids we were on the tour with went the day before and were taking pictures of there bears at all the sites. 

Literally each region of Korea is represented by a cartoon.

White peacock.

The hike up to a huge dormant volcanic crater was guided by an old, rusty barbed wire fence.

The view as we hiked up.

This looks like nothing, but this is the crater. There are no fences or anything around the edge. Literally, you could fall 70 meters to the bottom if rock were to crumble or if you were fucken around. I couldn't go to the edge because i am deathly afraid of heights, so my pictures of it did not turn out that dramatic.

Other hikers around the crater.

Grave site near the edge. It is mound shape, but the grass have grown to high to give it any definition.

You can see more hikers in the distances coming up another angle on the hill.

Horse.

Snake sin.

Random ride.

Green tea fields... we got to drink tea from here and it was literally the best tasting green tea I ever had.

Another diver.

Barnacles.

Koreans do not swim. They wear long sleeves and gloves with an umbrella to the beach. I don't quite get why they flock to Jeju. Our tour guide say they look this way in the dead of summer and in no way was it cold, when I photographed this.

Some little kid was collecting these shells. I felt bad at first removing anything from the ocean pools. After I saw th kids doing it I climbed in and got some seashells, too.

Boat.

Taking a stroll through the city at night. So much quieter then Seoul.

Black sand.

Tour raft.

A walk through the tangerine groves (Jeju is known for them).

Abandoned house.

Random grave.

No seeds.

Seeds... looks like alien babies.

The rock the KOreans are taking a photo infront of is suppose to look like a women from the side. I sort of could make it out. It seemed like every rock form had some legend to go with it.

My two day vacation to Jeju was nice. It was great to get fresh air for a few days. The island itself is beautiful, but it is sort of manufactured beauty... they import rocks from brazil and indonesia, palm trees from the USA, coconuts from vietnam, citrus fruits from California (not tangerines though), horses from Mongolia. The island was designed for tourism and had museums and anything romately beautiful on the island turned into something for tourist. For the most part all the natrual sites are free.

I did have the best meal of KOrea here... Bibmbop. Which I had a milion times, but this time it wa served in hot stone pot, which I was concerned it would burn the rice. Instead it made it crispy and delcious. The meal was finished with fresh tangerine juice. It is one of those thins I will think about from time to time, but will never have again.

My tour guy was a Russian, who has lived in Jeju for eigth years with his family. He was great and showed us all the highlights and took us to places that normal tours wouldn't go. The oneday we were with another Russian tourist that didn't talk to us at all. The first day we were with a family; a Chinese- American, a ffrench man and their two intimadating children. They live in Beijing and their children both under eight already spoke three languages fluently. They were a nice family, but man the lady could talk and mostly tlak about herself. In all it was a good trip and I can leave KOrea now not feeling like I missed anything.