Jeju Day 1 – Seongsan Ilchulbong

Made our way to the bus terminal. It’s probably about 15 min walk from the hotel. I was expecting an interchange but instead it’s just the size of 2 bus stops joined together. Oh well, that’s the bus terminal.

to the bus terminal (circled in yellow) from little france

to the bus terminal (circled in yellow) from little france

We were checking out and staring at the map at the bus stop for a while and a nice helpful Korean lady tried to help us with .. er..  Korean.

 

this was part of the thing that we were starring at

this was part of the thing that we were starring at

 

Anyway B managed to figure out what she’s trying to tell us. She mentioned “30″ . So I asked B , what she meant? ” the frequency?, the journey duration? The next bus?”

B : /shrugs

So we approached the old man behind the ticketing booth and pointed to the Korean words on my ipad for Seongsan. He went “ahhhh”, wrote something on a piece of paper and showed us a right hand and index finger of the left hand onto the opened right hand.

“15″?

B said :”6″

Amazed at how he can read the folks’ mind. All of us laughed. The bus ticket cost us KRW 3000 each which is 10 x cheaper (i think) comparing to taking taxi.

We bowed to show our thank you and board the bus 700 soon after. Taking transport in Jeju is not difficult ( just need to know which bus number to take). There is voice announcement (in 4 languages; korean, english, chinese and japanese)of next stop and next next  bus stop in the bus. So just need to listen carefully and hit the bell.

On the journey there, the bus stopped for a while, the driver actually went for a quick smoke and back again. I don’t think our Singapore drivers can do that! Haha it was quite a sight actually.

After a while, the bus stopped again and we saw he went to buy himself a drink! lol!

Photos took during our journey there and the bus ride from terminal to Seongsan is about an hour.

9km more!

9km more!

 

 

Butcher shop

small butchery

alighted at the wrong stop .. so near yet so far

alighted at the wrong stop .. so near yet so far

Almost there!

Almost there!

almost almost!!

almost almost!!

 

Reached and bought 2 tickets!

tickets for 2!

tickets for 2!

Dolhareubang at Seongsan

Dolhareubang at Seongsan

 

here we go!

here we go!

Midway at Seongsan

Midway at Seongsan

Finally got to the top! It was not as spectacular but it’s still beautiful! Cannot imagine how beautiful if we get to see the sunrise in this clear sky.

Top of Seongsan!

Top of Seongsan!

 

to descend

to descend

decending trail

decending trail

 

Manjanggul was the next destination!

 

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