Sunday, September 12, 2010
10:15 PM
KOREA-DAY 6 (16TH JULY 2010)

A rainy day. Morning's itinerary was kinda boring. We were brought to a 冬虫夏草 shop followed by amethyst specialty shop (purple crystal shop). The former was somewhat similar to the Ginseng shop we went the previous day and since we had already bought stuffs from the Ginseng shop, none of us was interested in buying. (Buy some more and we will be dead!) The latter was less boring but not very fascinating though.

It was then we had to bid goodbye to the 16 friends from our tour group who had to return to Singapore since they reached Korea two days earlier than us, or some even extended their journey and had to go on separate ways. The remaining was the 10 of us and our tour guide and off we go to our next destination, JEJU!

It was still raining when we reached Gimpo Airport. Had our lunch at the airport. Lotteria, somewhat similar to KFC but more spicy! We are not allowed to have more sauce unless we pay 500won (~60cents!) more!

Reached Jeju after 45mins long flight! And first on the itinerary was the mysterious road. The driver turned off the engine and the coach was supposed to be moving up on its own on an upward slope. Haha, even though I saw more of a horizontal road than an upward slope. And our tour guide continued to show us how mysterious the road was by taking a bottle and explaining to us that it will move upwards instead of downwards like the norm. In addition, she even spilled water on the road and told us that the water spreads upwards on this upward slope (it should spread downwards in fact). Interesting but I think we can skip this for others.



In Taiwan 野柳, there is the queen's head. In Jeju, there is the dragon head rock. The weather was throwing tantrums and we were getting a bit frustated by the rain that stops and continues on and off. Luckily it was not a downpour and we were still able to take photos, but of course, we had to take them fast.


Dinner was early like around 4.30pm. Me and JH have always loved to eat seafood and we were looking forward to this meal especially but the higher our expectations, the greater the disappointments we got! It was just pleasant to the eyes and not pleasant to our mouth for there was almost as little meat as you could find and the only plus point for this meal was the one packet of ramen that accompanied along to fill your stomach! Like the Bak Kut Teh, these two were totally chui. Other than that, I have no complain for the food. Lol.


And we returned to the hotel early. Nothing much for today's itinerary but we needed a good rest badly.


Sleeping early is definitely not our usual habit. Of course the night was still young for us to take a walk down Tapdong street and do some shopping! Tomorrow will be a better day, with NO RAIN! Teddy bear museum, horse-riding and more!

真。心话