Jeju Day 1 : Manjanggul

it was around 4pm but we still went ahead to the Manjanggul Cave (knowing that it closed at 6pm) as it’s freaking far from our hotel. Hence instead of taking bus 700 to the cave which i think it would takes another hr or so, we took a cab instead and it was about USD 25-30 (cannot remember the exact amount)

The driver was nice enough to point us the bus stop as he mentioned that it’s difficult to get a cab at Manjanggul .

We got there in about 30 min time and it’s a long way in from the bus stop which i read it’s about 20-30 min walk.

Here we were at the Manjanggul Cave.

 

I did not upload a lot of photos about this place cause it’s too dark and most of my photos turned out blurry..

Interesting place , you are part of the lava that once flowed through these lava tubes. But most of the time I was walking through the place looking down cause there were potholes and i was worried that I will just stumbled into puddle of water unknowingly. The place was chilly and damp. I would suggest to bring a cardigan at least even though you are visiting the place during summer.

After visiting Manjanggul, we walked our way out instead of taking the shuttle bus.

While walking out, we passed by the Gimnyeong Maze Park  which is situated between Manjnggul and the bus stop. Though we have some time (an hour) before it closed at 7pm, I decided to skip it cause it’s getting dark and I do not want to walk out to the bus stop in darkness. Be early if you want to drop by Gimnyeong Maze Park.

And how lucky we were to capture this amazing sunset !

We got to the bus stop and as usual we saw the massive timetable and we could not tell what time the bus is coming. We waited patiently and the bus was moving so fast that we could not see the number (780) clearly so B just flagged whatever bus that came first.

This time we to make use of the T money card that we bought at Incheon airport. It’s not like Ezlink. It works more like a cash card. You would need to tell the driver where you are going so that he can punch in something before you can tap your card on device.

B told the driver that we are going to “seogwipo” and so we tapped the card and sat down. Soon later , the driver stopped the bus and asked us to alight. We were shocked but then we realized that he thought we wanted to go “seongsan”. Haha so actually he’s nice enough to tell us to alight!

And it was time for dinner!

Most of restaurants were already closed by the time we got back to Seogwipo. Another must try on the list is the BBQ black pork. With our limitation in conversing with the locals, we do not know whether the BBQ pork that we ate were from “black pigs” . B loves it. He said that was the best meal in the whole trip.

After dinner, we strolled our way back to the hotel.