Jeju Island: Getting There

To go to Jeju Island for the four day weekend at the start of May, we were picked up Friday night at 1 AM. At first it seemed like a pretty normal trip: the bus was crowded and hot, and we were stuffed in the back, but pretty much everything else was fine. Then about ten minutes into our trip, our bus was in an accident. Basically the driver was a lunatic and slammed the right side of the bus into a truck. A bunch of the windows broke out, but somehow nobody was injured. So we sat on the side of the highway for two hours until a new bus came and drove us at breakneck speed to the ferry terminal. Somehow we still made our ferry, but it was an inauspicious start to be sure.

the slow ferry

a small island we passed on the ferry

The ferry ride was, well, exactly that. I have no problems with boats, but poor John and Jenny were not super psyched about it. Once we finally managed to find seats together, we snuggled up for a nap, had some snacks, looked out the window, and so on. It was over three hours on the boat, so by the time we finally arrived we were pretty tired. First, though, it was time to stop at Loveland, which will be the subject of its own post. We finally made it to the hotel around dinner time and had enough time to change and rest a bit before heading to our group dinner.

sunset

John and I

Jenny and I

This is the famous Jeju Island black pig. It was pretty tasty, once you trimmed it down a bit.

After dinner we wandered along the beach for awhile and drank a bit of the famous local soju, which is much better than mainland soju. Then it was early to bed, because we were beat, and we had to be up early the next day for our full Sunday of excursions.