Note: Part I can be found here.
After lunch, we took a 40 minute bus ride (time to sleep while Mr. Kim attempt to keep us awake by yelling into the mic) to visit the next attraction.
The Teddy Bear Museum!
It was one of the main attractions on Jeju. There were many displays of bears in various settings, including...
Goong | 궁 | Princess Hours
Disneyland! Feeling right at home, but surrounded by bears.
And of course, the famous LV bear.
And the largest teddy bear in the entire place...
The locals (and a few tourists) were laughing when I took this picture. I get that a lot whenever I pluck the little guy out to take photos.
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After spending about an hour there, we proceeded to our next attraction, The Glass Museum.
It's basically a place where they display all things glass.
Near the entrance, we saw a display of the yellow submarine.
Made entirely of glass!
World Map!
Even some of the walkways are made of glass!
Comfy. Comfy.
There're a few pretty cool displays, such as...
City lights at night. Lovely.
Orange Tree made of glass! Even the leaves and fruits are glass!
Glass flowers!
Glass Guitar with real strings!
House of horrors. I mean, the Magic Mirror Room.
Even the toilets were made of glass!
It's a real toilet. Sorry peeping toms and thomases, no see through!
We then passed by this display where tourists can throw a coin to wish for either good health, love and/or success.
I wished for good health... and missed.
Then you have folks like Chuwen's brother tossing all the coins accumulated thus far, wishing for everything. Haha!
We spent about an hour here.
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We next made another unscheduled pit stop at one of the many Green Tea fields.
It was a lovely sight.
The other 3 of 6 Grad Trippers!
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Our next stop was the (in)famous mysterious road (鬼路）.
Dunno why they call it the 'ghost road' literally translated, when it is in reality, a magnetic hill.
The knowledgeable Mr. Kim explaining to the grad-trippers how the optical illusion was created.
Basically, water here flows "upwards" and cars and buses can travel "uphill" with their engines switched off. All but an optical illusion.
This looks more like someone pissed in the middle of the road then water flowing "upwards".
Oh, and THERE IS FREE WIFI in this seemingly desolate place! Hahaha. How cool is that!
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We have finally reached the last destination of our packed day, Yongdaum Rock (Dragon Head Rock).
Visiting this attraction during sunset is perfect. I took some of the nicest photos here.
Mr. Kim orientating us to our present location.
It's called the 'Dragon's Head Rock' because there was one rock in particular that looks just like a dragon's head.
But I was too preoccupied with the sunset photo opportunities.
Warm in the sun (:
And I simply love the below three shots:
Yihui looking into the sunset.
Peck looking at the plane, and into the sunset.
Audry seated high atop a rock!
We walked past these Jeju diving obasan (okay, that's Japanese for aunties, there's a proper term for them, but I forgot liao.)
I call them the diving aunties because these folks can dive to the seabed to harvest seafood, and can remain submerged for 2-3 minutes each dive. I can't even keep my head submerged for 10 seconds! So I'm impressed.
Mr. Kim got us some (cooked!) fresh octopus for us to try.
It was damn nice and yummy!
We spent about 20-25 minutes around the area and headed to dinner. Not before I took one last photo...
Feeling safe being protected by the giant Jeju guardian deities.
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Dinner was the last activity for the day.
It was supposed to be a mini-imperial dinner set.
The sunset outside the restaurant was lovely.
So were the puppies across the restaurant.
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After dinner, we took a short walk around the shopping district to pick up some souvenirs as this will be the last night we'll be spending in Jeju.
Tomorrow will be back in Seoul and won't be as hectic!
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