It was such a fine day for our second day at Jeju Island. Thankfully there was no rain! We visited outdoor trick art museum and got another shade darker >.<
I was trying to mimic the monkeys but failed… LOL
Loving the colorful zebras! Normal zebras are black with white stripes. So these zebras are actually rainbow colored with white stripes? SUPER LIKE!
I can’t imagine how dwarfy I look next to giraffes. I have been changing my views on giraffes since Ryeowook’s love. Heh~
This marks the end of my trick art museum tour!
If you ask me, I’d say indoor is so much more fun. But outdoor has life size animal figurines you can hug and take pictures with. Indoor would take a few hours to take pictures with each and every art piece, outdoor would probably only require around 15minutes to navigate.
There wasn’t much people out there venturing in the open area. After all, the main highlight is still the indoor trick art museum. Still, I had so much fun!
Next up, 성산일출봉 Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak!
It is also called the Sunrise Peak, but the hotel staff had advised us not visit in the morning because the sky that day was gloomy and probably couldn’t see sunrise. Hence we planned for the visit in the afternoon instead.
View from afar and we gonna conquer this! I did a research prior to this and it’s said that it’d only require around half and hour to climb up and another half hour to get back down.
We barely started ㅋㅋㅋㅋ A coke is much needed to give us energy along the way!
Nearly reached the top and landscape sight was already so pretty!!! You can see the settlement of Jeju Island from here.
There we are at the altitude of 180m! Conquered!!!!!!
We were just wandering around the top and saw a speed boat zoomed past. Look at the pretty horizon!
Being surrounded by high rise buildings for so many years, I am loving this view. I just stood there and embraced the wind, took in deep breathes and felt very contended.
The cliff of Seongsan Ilchulbong is one of the places where sea women dive in without oxygen tanks to gather abalones.
I had to take a picture here because this is one of the scenes from “Queen In Hyun’s Man” drama. Kim Boong Do in the drama woke up in Jeju Island penniless and stole a bag from a tourist here. ㅋㅋㅋ
The afternoon was too hot and got myself a melon ice-cream to ward off the heat!
We took slightly longer than 1hr for the entire trail because we were too engrossed taking pictures. Towards the very end of the trail, it was quite steep and steps were slightly bigger. At some point in time, there is a “single lane” for those climbing up and coming down. And it kinda get on my nerves when tourists from a certain country was wearing very high heels, clad in long skirts, holding on to a lacy umbrella, complaining about the height of the stairs and refuse to budge.
I’d probably come again to see the sunrise. It’s such a pity that I’m always missing out on the sunrise! I still remember I took an hour train to Fu Long Beach from Taipei at 1am to catch the first sunrise in year 2010. It was freezing cold by the beach and I wasn’t fully clothed for the temperature. To add it up, I just had a full day activity and was dead tired. The sky only gradually turned bright behind the clouds. My saddened sunrise encounters… 엉엉~ ㅠㅠ I must come Seongsan Ilchulbong again! (Clench fist
We didn’t end that afternoon with Seongsan Ilchulbong though. Next destination: Maze Land!