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2009 Korea (Jeju island)


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^ An attempt at writing "Korea 09" in the sand as my late father always would have done on his holidays. My hotel is shown, I'm in a cheap room and can't see the sea.
temple
^ A temple on Jeju island
bridge
^ An enormous footbridge spanning the gorge
my lunch
^ my lunch and the view over the pacific ocean
solarloo
^ yay! solar powered toilets !
africanart
^ there's an african art museum here, it seemed somewhat out of place
spider
^ the bushes here are riddled with spiders, I took this to show the ladies in my house that the ones in England are tiny in comparison
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^ there's a place on the coast with hexagonal columned lava rocks (like the giant's causeway) [taken with mobile phone]
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^ they looked inviting but unfortunately it seemed impossible to get down to them, and the sea was pretty rough even on a calm day ! [taken with mobile phone]
bears
more bears
^ they seem to have a thing about cheesy teddy bears here
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^ a view of the conference centre from the cliffs
right
^ a view of my hotel from the cliffs
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^ entertainment from the conference banquet
our table
^ our table at the banquet
stepping stones
^ the long way home - across stepping stones at dusk
wooden bridge
^ we came to see the solar powered lights on the bridge
solar footpath light
^ and in the footpaths

solar deck
^ they oscillated different coloured leds
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^ A beautiful seascape
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^ CREST workers Ketut, Chris, Ian and Pong
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^ My room (no curtains, just screens)
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^ The world cup football stadium in Jeju
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^ A bus driver's holiday for us Solar Energy people
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^ Stacks of rocks piled up by the sea and in the distance is the volcanic crater we intended to climb
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^ The view from near the top (click for bigger)

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^ Inside the crater from the top (click for bigger)

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^ The steep cliffs down to the sea behind the crater
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^ Pong and Ketut point to the crater
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^ There's a matriarchal society of divers here
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^ Later on we visited a lava tube
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^ This lava column happened when a tube of lava broke through into the empty tunnel below
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^ A telephone box ?
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^ At the food court in a shopping centre
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^ Pong eyeing up my dinner
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^ Bad spellings "Petty Princess" !
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^ Strange English "Drenching Body and Heart"
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^ Our drivers Pong and Chris delivering the car back in one piece to the airport

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