Jeju Part 2

During our time in Jeju, we stayed at this inn called Breakfast at Tiffany's. The owner, Mr Chung, was very kind to help us plan what to do after finding out what we generally like to see and how much time we had in Jeju. 

For a start, he recommended this viewing point, 1km up Hallasan. As we drove higher, the scenery started to change and trees turned from green to white. It was beautiful, cold, but just what we liked. 

Once we reached the viewing point, we took a stroll on the boardwalk. Frozen streams, swamps, and trees branches were layered in snow - presenting a brilliant snowball-throwing opportunity for the bf where I was the unfortunate victim.

This was taken just after he threw one at me. It probably hit me while I was taking this shot. -.-

After Hallasan, we went to the Jeju stone park. I found out that we had to pay and we didn't want to so we walked to the carpark, climbed up a small wall and took this shot. This was only a small part of the stone park but this also affirmed our decision to not pay to go in.

According to the description, each of these stone structures represents past generals in the army. Not sure why there were so many of them though. Go google.

After the stone park, we made a visit to the Dongamburi crater. I think Iceland's volcanoes fascinated us (since we had 2 just behind school) so we wanted to see how a volcano in Korea would look like. (Sorry no volcano pic, the crater looked like a forest)

Since we already jammed packed our day with site visits, we decided to go for one more - the Seongsan sunrise hill.

It was a really nice peak to visit, especially since we climbed up when the sun was about to set. 

My handsome boy and me! ^^

What a view!

Descending

The next day, we decided to have seafood soup! This soup was sold everywhere in Jeju and this particular restaurant was generous with their abalones, clams and crabs too - that's half a small crab in the soup. I think this only cost us $15. How awesome!

Next, we visited the Teddy Bear Museum, the very place we failed to visit on our first day in Jeju. 

Mona Lisa

Goong

Einstein and Sam

Steve Jobs and I

Bf was hungry so he bought some dried tangerine snacks to try.

Then we visited this place called the Jusangjeolli cliff. I was fascinated by the geography of the rocks with columnar joints. Just thought it was pretty cool to have natural rock formations that could form cool shapes repeatedly - tessellations! (Ok I shall stop the lecture here)

Of course, we also visited one of the waterfalls - can't remember if it was Cheonjeyeon or Cheonjiyeon, both sounded the same. It was too dark and there were no visitors left so we didn't spend a lot of time there. 

During our stay in Jeju, we got to experience teenie weenie drops of snow at our bnb resort and heard a woodpecker at his job on our last day too! The owner of our bnb brought in superb orange juice and even made their own jam. We just had to buy some back! All in all, we really enjoyed our stay in Jeju! Will share the last leg of our Korea trip soon! 

Xoxo.

Jeju Part 1

After skiing at Alpensia, we flew to Jeju the next day from Seoul. Our full day of skiing and travelling to and fro the day before, due to the ski resort being 3 hours away, made us really tired when we had to wake up early for our morning flight.

Grabbed some banana milk and bread to go in the morning. Felt like a kid drinking banana milk with one hand while pulling my trolley luggage across the street with the other. I didn't eat my takeaway because I felt sick with a headache but thankfully we both managed to catch some shut eye on the short flight and I felt much better after eating my dabao-ed burger when we landed.

Unlike me, Sam ate his bread as soon as he bought it so by the time we reached Jeju, he was really hungry. Hence, the first thing we did after renting a car was to eat the famous Jeju black pork! I was a teeny bit grossed out by some remnants of hair still stuck to the skin of the pork - I never ate those parts. 

After driving a long way south to get to our inn, we thought we could visit one attraction in the evening - the Teddy Bear Museum. But it was closed! Oh well, I think this only reflects our absence of planning for this trip hahaha. We googled some more and found that the Alive museum was still open so we decided to visit that instead! 

Van Gogh and I

Lisa and A-lisa. Get it?

Bf trapped by the tentacles of a giant monstaaaaa

Bf made sea levels drop from a painting

Stuck in each other's reflections

Who is terrorising who?

Practicing what I would probably suck horribly at

Bf's amazingly easy one-hand hand stand 

King Kong's budae jjigae was obviously not tasty enough.

Someone barely trying to save me...

Literally on top of the world! This somehow reminds me of the Game of Thrones' moon door

This ends our Day 1 of Jeju! More up next! 

BKK

Took a short trip to BKK with the cousin last week. I guess this was kind of like my grad trip! Hehe. We ate and shopped so much! :P

This was at Audrey's Cafe and Bistro at Siam Centre.

Their food is amazeeeee-ing

 Tom Yum Goong Pizza - tom yum pizza with prawns! Wasn't too spicy for me!

Thai Tea Crepe. Don't really understand the craze about this one, just tastes extremely creamy to me.

Asiatique Night Market

Wanton mee with char siew, duck and crab meat

Boat Noodles at Victory Monument. This was noodles in sour soup. First bowl was way too spicy. Consequently, we ordered the non-spicy version! Tasted so good! (:

This was beef noodles in thickened soup. We were a little hesitant about trying this because we found out the soup was made out of pig's blood but it was worth the try! No weird taste at all!

I had 5 bowls and Darren had 9. Yum!

Chatuchak coconut ice cream!

Green curry chicken with noodles and rice. 

The portion was way too little but that left us space for dessert!

This day also happened to be Darren's 24th birthday so we celebrated by eating dessert at the After You cafe in Siam Paragon!

 Mudpie with ice cream

Baby-size Shibuya Honey Toast - the best!

 Terminal 21

 SabX2 Wanton mee at Pratunam. We had 2 bowls each! Yummy! 

This one lives up to its name. Too good!

 Back on the last day at Audrey's cafe for more food! 

We actually wanted to play Gokart but the place was booked for a school event.

Thai Iced Tea - tastes so much like the one from SMU's Loaves Me cafe. Been trying many Thai Iced Teas since we landed in Thailand but this was by far the most balanced and the best! 

Milo Crepe. I personally like this better than the Thai tea crepe. Like a lot better - maybe because it's chocolate/milo.  

This was the best Calamari rings I've ever tried in my life! Truffle fried calamari. Too good to be true!

Waffle with Strawberry ice cream. The ice cream was really good - didn't try the waffle though, was too full by the time this came.

And that was the end of our BKK trip!