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.

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Reached and bought 2 tickets!

 

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.

 

 

Manjanggul was the next destination!