The trip to Jeju Island was part of a promotional campain in its bid to become a new 7th natural wonder of the world. Jeju is one of 28 finalists from 450 candidates.Jeju is blessed as its a combination of so many features, waterfalls, volcano craters, lava tubes and caves, mountains, the mysterious road, animal shaped cliffs, female divers, whereas other places like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon have just one feature.Here is the official website and how to v...

Breakfast in our hotel was quite nice. There was cereal, lots of fruit, muffins, and korean dishes. Unfortunately we had a 7am check out so had to be in the restaurant at 6.30am and have a quick breakfast. Our morning flight to seoul was to be on budget airline Jin Air.Before we left Jeju our guide to the island presented us all with dolmon shaped jeju orange chocolates. These are the stone figures of people you see all over the island. On the flight I was told t...

After lunch our next stop was Udo Island on the eastern tip of Jeju Island. I hadnt visited on my last trip due to time and I didnt think there was much to do. The ferry for Udo is close to Seongsan Ichulbung the sunrise peak which I had visited before. I thought we would go there too but we didnt.The ferry is a short 15 min ride and takes both cars and passengers. As we reached the port on the other side we were fortunate enough to see some of Jeju's famous hane...

After our afternoon in Udo Island we drove to Phoenix Island. This is actually a luxury condo resort, not an island. Some famous tv/movie stars have apartments here, but you can still rent holiday homes here also. We were taken on a yellow buggy bus for a tour. This resort is the other side of sunrise peak (seongsan ichulbung) from Udo Island so you still have great views of the crater mountain.We were taken to the 'agora' which is their health club in a glass py...

This morning we started with a breakfast buffet in our oceanfront hotel. The restaurant on the second floor had a panaroma view of the ocean. Before check out I went to the upper floors to see the view. The top floor had gym set up in the hallway with treadmills facing the glass window ocean view. There was a small lounge area in the hallway also. The floor below had a bar in the same hallway which opens nightly so nightly scenic views but also quite clear during...