11 June 2012

KIMCHILANDIA CHRONICLES: JEJU ISLAND – JEJU FOLK VILLAGE


Kimchilandia Chronicles – Chronological recounting of Lonewulf’s great Korean adventure
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umi-emo si koya


Folk villages are a common type of tourist spot in Korea. It is one of the must-go-to attractions in Kimchiland, so I insisted that we should visit at least one. However, even if there was one near Seoul, we were only able to visit the one in Jeju (one of the two in the island).

The Jeju Folk Village features an actual village, albeit uninhabited except for dolls, where you get to peek inside traditional village homes, farms, backyards, etc. The village also features an administrative house, where the most influential man in the village ought to live.

The compound has some restaurants and souvenir shops where you can shop for neat Jeju thingamajigs. Plus, there's an area where you can don traditional Korean costumes, for a fee of course. And it even has a hut filled with Jang Geum memorabilia. Yes, that Jewel in the Palace girl.

Wait. Why am I spoiling everything? Here, take a peek of our experience in the Jeju Folk Village.



Enjoy!

LOMA 356

OW. EM. GEE!

Anxious weekend is over. And the best part is... I PASSED!

I really thought I'd fail this one because one, I did not finish the two handbooks; and two, I was distracted with my then upcoming entrance exam for MS Finance.




YAY! No salary deduction for me. :)

Thank you, Lord! Pramis, mag-aaral na ako para sa next exam. :)

03 June 2012

KIMCHILANDIA CHRONICLES: JEJU ISLAND - LAVA RUINS, A LABYRINTH, AND A GIANT SAUCER


Kimchilandia Chronicles – Chronological recounting of Lonewulf’s great Korean adventure
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Seongsan Ilchulbung (see source at the bottom)

Gimnyeong Maze Park

Manjanggul Lava Tube

From here on, I will classify my Kimchilandia entries per theme. This is because our Jeju trip, albeit short, featured soooo many different tourist spots that putting all one-day’s worth of activities in one entry is a Herculean task.

And besides, I don’t want the amazingness of a particular attraction to diminish; which I think would happen if I would squeeze them in one entry. Especially as Jeju island is the home of 3 UNESCO World Heritage sites.

So anyway, let me start by featuring first the destinations that are ‘nature’-related.



 
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