South Korea: Jeju - Day Trip Destination 1: Teddy Bear Museum

As i said in previous post, Jeju's attraction is in Seogwipo area and the best way to travel from Jeju-Si is rent a taxi and make it one day trip.

You can get your driver when you're in Jeju, but i'd suggest to get one before you go there, because you might meet communicate difficulties when you're there to look for taxi rental.

So i get the host of Jeju Greenday Backpacker to help me. Below is the email with the trip's detail. 

--- On Wed, 4/1/12, jeju greenday <jejugreenday@gmail.com> wrote:

From: jeju greenday <jejugreenday@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Asking for stay

To: "Rachel Grace" <wingrachel2002@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, 4 January, 2012, 8:38 PM

oh i made mistake regarding price and tour

accomodation fee is 192000 KRW not 19200

and

5:00pm : departing from san-gum buri to mystery road

6:00pm : arriving myestery road

6:20pm : arrivng lotte mart and finishing tour

thank you

2012년 1월 4일 오후 9:24, jeju greenday <jejugreenday@gmail.com>님의 말:

hi rachel

i'm so sorry for delayed reply. which may cause disturbing :(

i will let you know price of our accodation.

you told me that you have 2 female and 3 male.

as we discussed . we have made a deal which you will pay 96000 per night .

so acommodation fee is going to be 19200KRW

and speking of tour

your original schedul is below

Day 2(25/3, Sun)
Jeju Si -> Seogwipo -> Cheonjiyeon Falls or Jeongbang Falls (rm6/entry) / Teddy Bear Museum (rm20/entry)-> Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak-> San-gum Buri (rm10) -> Mystery road -> Jeju Si.
10am : Seogwipo for lunch & shopping around Lotte Mart / chill on the beach. 
12pm : Cheonjiyeon Falls or Jeongbang Falls (rm6/entry) or Museum
130pm : Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak & snack time (seafood catching show at 130pm) 
330pm : San-gum Buri 
630pm : Mystery road
7pm : Jeju Si for dinner. 
8pm : Walk in the town.
***Stay : Greenyday Guest House & Backpacker.

if you follow this schedule, i think, accoding my experience, you will have to drop one shcedule at least.

i recommand you to cut off 'lotte mart shopping' becuase you can go to lotte mart in jeju city area after finishing your trip.

you you don't need to spend time for lotte mart during your precious trip time.

also basically DAY TOUR time(normal taxi) is starting from a.m 9:00 to pm :5:00 ( 8 hours) for sedan which accomodate 4 people maximum and nomally cost 150,000KRW and extra 10,000 chared every 30 m

VAN which accomodate 5 people costs 180,000KRW  per 8 hours (09:00~05:00) 

so i recommand you to use VAN for tour and what i can offer suggest is below

Jeju Si -> Seogwipo -> Cheonjiyeon Falls or Jeongbang Falls ->Teddy Bear Museum (rm20/entry)-> Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak-> San-gum Buri (rm10) -> Mystery road -> Jeju Si.
9am: departing from jeju city

10am : arriving Seogwipo and seeing Cheonjiyion FALLs. and seeing Teddy bear museum located near falls

12am : departing from seogwipo to Seongsan ilchulbong

1:30pm : arriving Seongsan and seeing seafood catching show

3:00pm : departing from seongsan

4:00pm : arrving san-gum buri

5:00pm : departing from san-gum buri to mystery road

5:20pm : arrivng lotte mart and finishing tour

and you can enjoy your time at lotte mart and taking dinner around there and come back the guest house with taxi whch costs 5000 KRW

if you have more question plz let me know

But we finally reschedule the plan when i meet Simmy and Andy in Jeju, they give us very good suggestion on where is the better place for view and so, so the day trip schedule was like below:

Jeju si -> Teddy Bear museum -> Jeongbang Falls -> Seopjikoji -> Seafood lunch -> Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak -> Manjanggu lave tube - > Jeju Si. 

However, if i could replan, i'll take museum and lava tube away. I will explain it later. 

Also, we give up the famous Hanna Mountain because we have only a day in Jeju, If we take Hanna Mountain means that we have to give up most of the other attraction.

A friend we make in the backpack who went to Hanna Mountain told us, she take like 6 hours to hike to the peak, but the top view is amazing.

So if you have extra day stay in Jeju, maybe you should save one day to the Hanna Mountain.

With above plan, the charge of driver + mini van + petrol for one whole day trip is same, which is 192000kw (about RM528), exclude all the entrance fees.

Expensive eh? I didn't make much comparison because of hardly find people could speak English in Korea, and i must say Korean lost their patient very very soon, if you try to bargain, they rather to let the business off.

Of course you can choose to rent a car, but if you're Malaysian, just to let you know they're drive on left and you have to get a international license.

The car rental fees is cheaper than rent a taxi + driver, but you've to pay your petrol and find the road, but i guess you can rent the GPS together with the car too. 

There are several car rental company in Jeju, some of them set up counter in the airport too, do some research if you keen to rent a car. 

Ok~ So the 1st destination of the day trip is Teddy Bear Museum, the museum that i'm not really recommend if you're not the fans.

Please find the detail of the museum here:  http://www.teddybearmuseum.co.kr/Etc/English.asp

I'm not a fans of teddy bear so everything in the museum is bored for me, the only fun part is the outdoor park, with human height bears, make you feel like you're living in the bear society.

But the entrances fees is not cheap at all, 7000kw per adult, equal to about RM21, well if you're fans of it this might be so worth.

There are different museum nearby the teddy bear museum, i spot a car museum and toy museum, i guess will be much more interesting than this one :(..

Anyway i blessed because of the good weather that day, outdoor photo looks just nice!

Opps before that, i will not post captain of the photos, i cant force myself to say something when i really don't have much interest on it. Hehe. 

There go the outdoor photos.

The park is not big, but surrounding with teddy bears :D

Dedicate this post to teddy bear lover~!

Next photo will see more green from Jeju!





Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20120626, 1027am
Rach in goin to assignment later mood

South Korea: Jeju - Jeju LoveLand (18SX)

Refer back to my plan, we decided to visit Jeju LoveLand the 1st night when we step on Jeju.

I believe if you're taking tour, you won't have chance to visit the place, mostly because this is 18SX!!

Oh, i called Jeju LoveLand with another name too, the Sex Museum!!!

I been the Sex Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, but compare to the one in Jeju, the latter is way more interesting, and informative! haha.

Jeju LoveLand divide to 2 parts, the outdoor and indoor. The outdoor with giant artistic statue about sex, while the indoor is mini cartoon-alike status.

We decide to go by night time because of we don't have better choice in the 1st night that we're in Jeju, and the operation hours is till midnight, plus the outdoor statue lighting will be on, that should be nice.

But WE ARE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure with the previous year, but end of March is still VERY COLD although the people consider it is spring already.

Strong wind chill make us keep our hands in the pocket almost all the time, EXCEPT Kuan, he dying to take all the statue photos because he think that is so cool.

And that i hints to you that half of the photos are from Kuan, he's the only one out of 5 of us who took all the photos, while we're yelling to him to get into the warm indoor everything he sex with the statue.

Opps, he takes photo with the statue. Hehe.

Before go to the photos, basic info about Jeju LoveLand.

How to go: 

Our choice is taxi, that's not near at all from Jeju-si, take us like half hour to reach, that's located in rural area, we cross all the uphill road.

If not mistake, the taxi fares is like 10k won, equal to bout RM30 here.

How to go back!!!!!!:
This is my biggest concern when we decided to go LoveLand by night time! I worry there are no taxi to fetch us back.
But as we leaving in 11pm, few taxi is waiting in the taxi station to get the late-visit passenger. So nothing to worry about.

The entry fees: 
9000won per person, i believe no discount. But i tell you what, worth for it. Worth than Teddy Bear Museum!!!(detail will be in next post~)

The operation hour: 
9am to 11pm

Lastly, the website (in English!!!!!!): 
http://jejuloveland.com/

Way more informative than what i'm given, including the map, so if you rent a car and local gps, just key in the phone number, the gps will bring you the way.

Oh last-lastly!!

My Advice: 

If you're goin to LoveLand in March or winter...

DO NOT GO IN THE NIGHT TIME! FREAKING COLD!!!!!!!!!
And the lighting make almost all the photos blur, but i cant deny the statues look so artistic with all the lighting la.

Gent. I love the knob

I like this knob the most! 

See, so blur, but its nice to  see it in real 

sex have to based on love juga :D

When i said giant status, i meant it. That's Kuan, he molests almost every statues. 

Any size at your choice :D

Artistic right!

I'm not busy. Haha

Piggy with love! <3

LoveLand is big, and with a lake, and a  pair of leg.  

Giant gugu. Hehe

There are a lot more statues in the outdoor, we're all exciting to take photo in the first 10 minutes, and later we keep our hands in pocket, except Kuan, as i said earlier.

So almost all the photos below are under copyright of Kuan.

Up on a building

I don't know what does it mean, i'm pure. 

and this too. 

Is she delivering child?

Awww papa, mountain with pink peak!

couple of souvenir shop in the area too., 

Indoor! Finally!

See all this mini statue, so real! 

Like watching tv. 

Very lifely. 

Even the expression is good too. 

is this what always happening huh?

papa mama! what're you doing?

See the expression!

Game

Even the detail is good.

Mermaid needs sex too,

A lot to see. 

In the apartment theme

In HanMuZhen, the Korea traditional sauna

The toilet 1

The toilet 2

The hotel room 1

The hotel room 2

For girls

for both

for guys

for girls again

There are something not vivid too. 

wooden gugu :D

Then we back to outside again. Damn 

wow

This is how the outdoor looks like during night time

Is this pose possible?

Artistic right

Ok i wanna see this pose in real. Haha

Kuan is dreaming. Silly boy. 

haha like red carpet 

Queen, LOL

and slave. 

Okies people, here i kill another post in Jeju. The next one will be some very nice natural photos, the falls, the mountain, the flower, the green, and the FOOD!

I guess the next 5 posts will be korea still. I will pick up a little bit and rush it out.

But what i can tell you is there will be no new post next week, because i will be spending the week in Combodia, Siem Reap.

Yea, you can expecting Siem Reap post after Korea. =)

Thanks for support!






Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20120614, 0953am
I wanna eat mood.