After a sleepless nite on the plane, we all arrived at Incheon Airport, Seoul ... looking like pandas! While waiting for our coach, i could felt the chilling wind pricking into my bones, gosh! Here I Am! The ''Land of the Morning Calm'' ~ Korea.
Our coach was filled to max capacity, wif 40 ppl, tour guide, sg tour leader & a photographer. 3 of us were asked to move to back of coach tog wif another grp of 3 gals. Paul, our fatty local guide gave a long intro of himself that nearly hypnotize us as we all din sleep the prev nite :(
Bef long, we arrived at Nam Sangol Hanok Village （南山韩屋村） to view Korean ancient palace settings, backdrop for 《大长今》. Paul demonstrated how to play some of the traditional games. The cold breeze & inadequate rest made me felt super cold. Fr our sweltering heat to a 10 over deg temp, i indeed needed some adapation. Heng, it's not winter yet, haha!
Left: Traditional game of Tuho: try aim the sticks into the holder.
Our 1st lunch in Seoul was Bibimbap rice & some roast pork. Their roast pork is not our char siew rice kind, hehe! Bef i could snap my food pic, Paul said, 'Quick! Stir ur rice bef it gets burnt!' In a blink, he was demo-ing to the rest stirring vigourously at my rice! Arrg! I was so afraid he will spill the soya on my white jacket!
After lunch, we were shuffled to Gimpo Airport for our domestic flight to ''Honeymoon Island'' ~ Jeju (济州岛）. Yeah! Cos i had seen many lovely pics of Jeju fr the web. Jeju is the largest island in South Korea, formed fr a sub-sea volcano & surfaced above the waters. At 73km wide & 41km long, the island is a lovely paradise. In the midst of Jeju stood Mt. Halla, at 1950m above sea level -- the highest mountain in s. korea.
Upon arrival at Jeju, it was late afternoon liao, haiz! We were all like walking zoombies by then... trying to psycho myself, not cold not cold... But in fact, it's so cold till we wore our gloves. At Moksokwun Park (木石菀），we were told a legend abt this place while touring the park formed fr odd-shaped rocks & woods.
Right: Rocks formation tt look like humans
Our next stop was at 'Mysterious Road', it's so-called because when our coach's engine was switched off, it could move upward the slope against gravity! We were all bewildered by this experience! We got off the bus & Paul demo the magic again by rolling a bottle of water downhill & it rolled uphill again! We tried walking up the slope without much effort but walked down was abit more straining?? Well, for myself i din felt too big difference thou', heehee!
Left: Sunset at Mysterious Road
Anyway, it's juz a short stretch of rd that had become a tourist spot in Jeju. Why so mysterious? it's the result of optical illusion in which the lower part (of rd) looks higher becos of its surrounding environment.
The sky was darkening & getting colder ... sunset came earlier ard 6pm+. We travelled to chk-in at Jeju Oriental hotel & had a seafood steamboat for dinner. Me, ruby & zhifang saw the food & sianz...cos alot of shells inside & we dun eat. No prawns inside de... :( We went back hotel to rest aft dinner.
Upon arrival at Jeju, it was late afternoon liao, haiz! We were all like walking zoombies by then... trying to psycho myself, not cold not cold... But in fact, it's so cold till we wore our gloves. At Moksokwun Park (木石菀），we were told a legend abt this place while touring the park formed fr odd-shaped rocks & woods. 
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