Autumn in Korea - JEJU ISLAND (3.11 - 5.11.2014)

Korea Part 2

Alhamdulillah we achieve to explore Seoul. Our next destination is Jeju Island. Excited and nervous to conquer Mount Hallasan. This is my second international mountain to be conquer. The first time was Mount Arjuna, Surabaya Indonesia.

Noted that you need mentally and physically ready. My friend and i had training for a few months for this mountain climbing.

What i wanted to highlight here is that Jeju island is soooooo beautiful. Rich for nature and UNESCO World nature heritage.

Day 4 (2/11/2014)
3pm - Reached Jeju Island
4pm- Go to car rental
5pm- Dinner
8pm- Arrived at Homestay.
9pm- Sleep early!

I took t'way airline coz at that time its the cheapest. Btw, landasan kapal terbang exactly sebelah laut. awesome gile. 

Domestic arrivals at Jeju airport.

Wemet with Sakina Omar. The only Malaysia Student that study in Jeju. She takes Art course. 

Took a bus to Car rental shop.

Abang adem has driving international so he is our driver in Jeju! yeahh. In korea, their car mostly have GPS and to search the place you just cann enter the store phone number and the GPS will detect and take you there, and yes the language is in korea. Now after that, Kina show us place for our dinner.

Tadaaaaaaa! Octopus grill for dinner. Sedapppppppppp.

Happy to be here in Jeju. Tq Kina for the guide. Hope you happy with beras yang kami bagi. hehe

That night after dinner, kami terus ke homestay kami. Malam dan sejuk. Sampai je terus letak barang, mandi, solat dan tidur. Esok pagi dah kene gerak ke kaki gunung halla. I sleep early but i can here my roomate walk in. They were so nice keep it quite coz i am sleeping. When i wake up, they still sleeping and i didnt have chance to say hello. When later that day i reach homestay after the hiking and dining, they already left the homestay. And yang paling touching mereka (korean girls) tinggalkan some jeju orange for me on my bed. auuwww there we so nice!

Our homestay. So beautiful and nice. The owner are very helpful and friendly!

Abang Adem book this resort at Airbnb. But this is the owner's facebook if you want to enquire anything  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002162364891 or search his name 한라산

Infront of our homestay.

Day 5
4am -     Subuh
7am-     Arrived at Seongpanak Starting Point
7.30am- Start hiking Mount Halla
4pm -    Finish hiking.
6pm-      Dinner, Free & Easy

heading to Hallasan. Abang adem tolong hantarkan kami.

Freaking cold pagi subuh tuh. Berangin pulak tuh. After warming up and photoshoot we are ready! Lets start hiking!

we start hiking at Seongpanak start point.

Hallasan ada rules dia. kalau nak naik just make sure you at the last checkpoint before 12pm because after that they wont allow you to go summit. And you must reach summit not later than 13.30pm.

The trail. The wind started to get me. It was sooo windy and cold. I try to maintain my breathing.

The board stated that sometime ada rusa muncul di gunung halla.

After trek berpapan tangga, ther batu pulak.

Yeahh Happy that we reach our last check point before summit at around 10am. We rest a little while..and the rest place has free WIFI. wewiiitt trus post FB. hehe.

Dalam rest place tuh, ade tv yang papar cuaca dan suhu sekarang di gunung halla. Currently suhu waktu kami adalah 0 darjah celcius. omg patutlah sejuk semacam. Lepas beli kopi mereka (hajat nak beli meggi sbb lapar tapi tak halal), Tetibe ade sorang lelaki annouce soething in korean and the people there kinda give some reaction. I asked some guy in english and he said that at the summit now is currently snowing and he added that today is the first day Hallasan is snowing. wowwwww  we are so lucky. I quitely screaming happy-ly. After that we continue our jurney to summit! 

Tadaaa. early trekking to summit..we see crystal snow there! happy happy!

I dengan abang zaki tak rushingnak ke summit. so kami pun byk photoshoot. Baru 5 langkah nampak cantik kami tangkap. alaa bile lagi kan bergambar dgn snow

Snowinggggggg.

Lagi 15minit akan sampai ke summit. So kami berhenti seketika. waktu ni mmg sejuk windy freezing habis. bayangkan mcm cerite Frozen. hidung meleleh je dgn hingus. breathing dah susah sikit sbb sejuk sgt nasib baik ada mafla boleh cover leher mulut dan hidung. Pengalaman sungguh.

Kami trunu gunung melalui Gwaneumsa Trail. kami tak pakai trail yang masa mendaki. saja nak merasa trail baru And wow the trail and view is beautiful. The autumn leaves are still there and just beautiful. Alhamdulillah merasa 2 musim dalam satu hari. winter and Autumn. Syukur.

Day 6

4am -  Subuh 

8am- Breakfast by abang adem & abang zaki. Went outside of our homestay and met Heanyeo divers.

10am- Sightseeing at Sangumburi Crater

2pm-Manjanggul Cave

5pm- Dinner

6pm- Jeju town and shopping jeju souvenier.

They made Nasi goreng! yummyyyy. Thank you abam abam.

Wajib pakai stoking sbb lantai sejuk sgt. Buy this one at seoul yang super duper cute.

Beside our homestay ade haenyeon lady. woww.

The haenyeo, literally meaning "sea women", are female divers in the Korean province of Jeju. They are representative of the matriarchal^{[according to whom?]} family structure of Jeju.

The history of haenyeo 

The term Jam-Nyo (diving women) was first used in the 17th Century.^[1] A large migration of these women to the mainland in 1887 and Japan in 1903 has been documented that shows a large growth in their productivity.

In the 17th century, many men went to sea to fish or row warships, and offshore diving largely became women’s work. It could also be said that women simply were more adapted for the job, with their bodies keeping them warmer and being more suited to swimming than a male, with more body fat. With that, they often became "the head" of their family. On Mara Island, where sea products accounted for almost all sources of revenue before it became increasingly attractive as a tourist site, gender roles were entirely reversed. Often men would look after the children and go shopping while the women would bring in money for the family.

This evolution clashed with Korea's Confucian culture, in which women have traditionally been treated as inferior. As a result, administrators from Seoul (unsuccessfully) tried to bar the women from diving, ostensibly because they exposed bare skin while at sea.

Starting from the late 1970s, exports of sea products to Japan such as abalone and conch have made the sea women richer than ever, allowing them to fix their houses, build new ones in Jeju City and send their daughters to college. However, there is a threat to the haenyo's continued success: with their daughters choosing to work in the island's tourism industry or in the big cities, the haenyo will most likely disappear. While in 1950 there were as many as 30,000 haenyo on the island, in 2003 there were only 5,650 sea women registered as divers, of whom 85% were over 50 years old. In the early 1960s, 21% of women on the island were free divers, providing 60% of the island's fisheries revenue.^[2] With the number of sea women declining and with tourism giving Jeju men more opportunities, it is unclear what will happen to their daughters' status in their communities and home, though it is unlikely that the matriarchal family structures will continue to survive. As of 2014 only about 4,500 haenyeo, most aged over 60, were still actively working.^[2]

In 2014, South Korea applied to UNESCO to add the haenyo to its Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The haenyeo begin shallow water diving as early as age eleven and move on to deepwater diving by age eighteen.^[1] They have been observed diving as long as 65 years of age.

-wikipedia-

Sangumburi Crater. Fee 6,000 won.

Sangumburi (산굼부리) is a crater with a circumference of over 2 km, and has been designated as a Natural Monument. It is located on the southeast side of Jeju-si, and is a flat crater, about 650 meters wide, 100 meters deep, and 2,070 meters in circumference. If you look at the crater from above up, it looks like a man-made circular stadium. There is a variety of plant-life in the crater. On the north side, Nandaeseong vegetation such as red-thorn trees, and magnolia trees grow, along with the rare winter strawberries. On the south side of the crater, Ondaerim vegetation such as evergreens, maples, and mountain strawberry trees cover the area. Because so many different kinds of trees and plants grow in such a limited space, it attracts the attention of researchers as well.

-website visit korea- 

Manjanggul Cave [UNESCO World Heritage]. Fee 2,000 won.

Manjanggul Cave (만장굴) is one of the finest lava tunnels in the world, and is a designated natural monument. A lava tunnel is formed when the lava that was deep in the ground spouts from the peak and flows to the surface. Manjanggul Cave has a variety of interesting structures inside including 70cm lava stalagmites and the lava tube tunnels. 

Only 1km of the 13,422m Manjanggul Cave is open to the tourists. The inside of the tunnel sustains at a temperature of 11~21℃, creating a comfortable atmosphere. There are rare animals such as bats living in the tunnel, which makes this tunnel valuable for researchers as well. The stone pillars and stalactites are widely spread and the tunnels shows off the cave’s topographical features. The Stone Turtle is especially eye-catching because it is shaped like Jeju-do Island.

-Website visit Korea-

Map Jeju! Mount Halla yang tengah2 tuh.

Lepas masuk caving, kami solat jamak takhir. Travel2 jugak..solat jangan lupe ye.

Selepas masuk caving, kami ke town Jeju. Ade la kedai2 dan subway store. 

Ontheway balik tuh, nampak kedai yang ade poster RunningMan. Tak faham apa yang ditulis tapi faham melalui gambar. Rupe2 nye ni yang kedai running man ade masuk and kinda famous with her toppokki. So nasib ade lg toppokki yang dia jual and i order sikit. She is so nice kasi extra dumplings.

Okay pedas gila toppoki tuhhh

Day 7

7am- Checkout and send back the car to car rental

9am- Flight to Busan

Penat naik flight. Lets go to Busan!!

Jeju Air is so nice. Ade air Fresh orange...and boleh refill lg. Thumbs up!

I love Jeju Island and tak puas nk visit semua. Jeongbang Falls, Trick Art Museum, Seongsan Ilchulbong, Sunrise Peak and many moreeee. Dah pasang niat nk dtg honeymoon disini selepas umrah. Moga2 diperkenankan hajat ini. hehehe