Day 5 - Jeju Island Wild Wild "West"

After the amazing exploration of East Jeju a day before, our planned destination for today would be a tour on West of Jeju.

Our day started off with a breakfast in Hotel. We had a birdeye's view of the sea while enjoying our breakfast.

As usual, we headed over to the Tourism Booth opposite our hotel to wait for the tour bus. The first destination we will be visiting is the Hallim Park. Basically Hallim Park is a "zoo" for flora and faunas to live in. It had a different mix of gardens that could be enjoyed and visited in any season of the year!

However, the most famous of Hallim Park would be the undoubtable Hyeopjaegul and Ssangyonggul Caves. So what is so famous about these caves? Think about it, I will review the answer later. :P

Our first stop in Hallim Park is the Hyeopjaegul cave. At 200m long, it is one of the world heritage lava cave apart from Manjanggul Caves which we visited on the East Tour of Jeju. Inside the cave we saw the stalactites and stalagmites, which hang from the ceiling and sproud at the bottom.

It is still alive! Water is still dripping from the stalactites. Mother nature is so awesome!

The stone sculpture depicts legend of Dr.Jin swallow the bead at Hallim.

Next up, we visited the Jeju Stone Garden where miniatures are created with the stones.

For Bonsai lovers, Hallim Park would be the ideal destination. It offer varieties of Bonsai. Some Bonsai are older than us! :P

There is also a folk village inside.

Well, this is the lover's waterfall. Manmade. It look like we were in the heaven with all those artificial warps. :P

Not forgetting, there is also a bird park inside Hallim Park, and we were lucky to see a peacock showing it's distinctive feathers. The myth is, the peacock must be thinking I am very attractive or else, why it show it's feathers? ;p

We ended our Hallim Park visit at about an hour with some beautiful flower shoots, and headed for the second program of the day - Horse Riding.

It was a clear blue day, and we were given a cowboy vast to wear and a boots to wear if you are interested! Do I look like a sheriff? ;p

For us, that was the very first time of riding on a horse! Real horse!

To be specific, all the horses for ride are female horses. The reason be, they are more soft in nature and hence they can be nurtured slowly :P I were given a black foal(female baby horse) while Connie's got a brown one. I guess the foal must have been huffing and puffy when I rode on her back. :P

Look how big the horse head is. 

Is near lunch time, we were brought to a Japanese Restaurant for some Japanese food. Is good to have something different after day and days of kimchis!

I got a seafood tomyam soup whereas Connie opted for the Beef Soup.

There is some free time after lunch and I did few photo shooting. Look at my Korean model. She is so cute!

Our next visit was the Jusangjeolli Rocks which is a 2km stretch of coastline with hexagonal rocks pillar stood gigantically around the shore!

Basically, the rocks are made up of the lava from the eruption of Mt Hallasan into the sea of Jungmun. It was really a god's work, the rocks were evently shaped and carved.

We marked our mark at Jusangjeolli Rocks. Nice knowing you guys!

We then headed to the second last destination of the day, Yakcheon Temple or also known as Yakcheon Sa.

The second largest temple in Jeju, it looks massive from outside.

The interior was even jaw-dropping!

A four storey building, you would have different view at each level.

It was believed that the water in this temple will heal illnesses and bring us luck when you drink it. We did tried some "drop" of water. Hehe.

Spending about 45minutes there, we left for our last destination of the day, Cheonjiyeon Waterfalls.

Cheonjiyeon Waterfalls (天地渊瀑布) is one of the most famous waterfall in Jeju. We have to walk for some distance from the entrance to reach the waterfall. 

Thanks to the guy who helped us to capture a pic together.

We ended our Tour of West at Cheonjiyeon Waterfalls. We requested Yeha's personnel to drop us at the New City of Jeju, for some shopping. We saw this shop and the aromas brought us into the shop.

So what is all about the aromas, a walnut filling cake, and it was molded into nuts shape. Pretty good and worth trying.

We just hung around the streets and then decided our dinner for the day will be instant noodles+beer+chips. Went back to the hotel early to get some rest as we will be heading back to Seoul on the next day!

Stay tuned for the funs and trills of Seoul!