Jeju STUDY trip.

LOL, in the midst of the OIAP, i had the opportunity to visit their(CRL) study site for, erhemz, FIELD SURVEY of octocorals in Munseom.. NOT THERE TO PLAY HORRR.



Sunday

Arrived at Jeju International Airport around 8pm, took a 1.5hrs long bus ride to Seogiwipo, pass by all the nice nice huge Hyatt, etc, etc, and came to this little motel (Pak Ko Motel), kinda good! The room fits 4 person comfortably!

the view from common balcony! Big one is Supseom, small one is Munseom.

welcome to room 606, yul baek yul!



Monday - Diving day!!!

After a hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee breakfast, off to dive!!! YAY! And damnit, my thunder calves had problem getting into the wetsuit, so blardy malu!!! ARGH, but nvm, diving is WORTH every malu-ness of it!

define MacDonald's Big Breakfast...



Some crash course on diving and we were set to go! Things to remember. "keep breathing", "equilibrate everytime!". The hardest thing is prolly the plunge into the sea, with weight belts and super freaking heavy air tank strapped onto yourself... and the fact that I CANT FLOAT!!! But okay lar, did it anyway. Then... problem no. 2, ears freaking ache cos i couldnt equilbrate them, think the mask is kinda big and i cant find my nose to pinch. sooo... descend and ascend like 300times.

ME!!! Holding on to a sponge ... getting washed away by the current!

CRL!!! We *HEART* corals! Soft or hard! Octo or Hexa


And... i din concentrate on the surrounding... my eyes were too busy looking around for my dive instructor. WASTED!!! ARGH!!! Took loads of pictures and went up... =( Din see many fishes or stuff... =(





Next up was Teddybear Museum, not my cup of teh so... yah, just a museum with alot of teddybears impersonating famous ppl and stuff.

big big teddies.

Teddy Lisa and a trying-to-look-seductive me!



then... CheongJiYeon Waterfall. The picture and the real thing is worlds apart... just a small waterfall, nothing like the describe, magnificient waterfall from the sky blablabla.

Bigggggggggggggggg waterfall.

@ the top!

meditation leads to nirvana.

Dinner time!

ALL DIVERS!!!

This is SEAFOOD SOUP! not just a few miserable slices of fish, prawn and tofu.

huge shellfish.

inside looks blardy gross...

huge HUM.

weeny crab.

park walkies!



Tuesday - Hallasan trekking!

LOL, in preparation for the trekking, they bought tomatoes, bananas, muffins, chocolate, kimbap as an ENERGY SOURCE. well, the only thing i ate was... the tomatoes and 1 banana. heh.



uphill was 9.6km of non stop walking!!! Time taken 8.54am to 12.17pm. YAYYYY. Meet a friendly group of Ajussi-s, so lunched and trekked down together. They are blardy nice...!!! HERH HERH!!! So touched! Trekking down was scary. The route was steeper, rockier and rougher, a never ending 7.7km route!!!

starttttt!!!

URGH!!! Never ending trail.

the pic is deceiving... not that SMILEY...

FINALLY?!!!! many hours later!!!

Friendly group of ajussi-s

they are kinda camwhorish... LOL.

Mal-Ko-Li, korea... rum?

downhill...

the great GuanUmSa trail.

Dinner of raw fishy, marinated RAW fishy and MORE RAW FISHY!!!



Wednesday - RAINY!!!



yeah... pacific land and some mini theme park thingy. BARGH!!! No horseback riding on rainy days!!! =(

see dolphins fly!

and smile!

Leaning tower of Pisa?

Harunbang... forgot to rub the nose! Aiya!

back to seoul!

Niceeeee... not very international actually. More like intranational.

well... plane got delayed due to the weather! First time for me!!!

souvenirs! She sells seashells on the seashore.


I MISS JEJU!!! Met the nicest ppl there!!! Had many of my first time experience there!!! =... (