2009 Korea (Jeju island)
^ 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.
^ A temple on Jeju island
^ An enormous footbridge spanning the gorge
^ my lunch and the view over the pacific ocean
^ yay! solar powered toilets !
^ there's an african art museum here, it seemed somewhat out of place
^ 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
^ there's a place on the coast with hexagonal columned lava rocks (like
the giant's causeway) [taken with mobile phone]
^
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]
^ they seem to have a thing about cheesy teddy bears here
^ a view of the conference centre from the cliffs
^ a view of my hotel from the cliffs
^ entertainment from the conference banquet
^ our table at the banquet
^ the long way home - across stepping stones at dusk
^ we came to see the solar powered lights on the bridge
^ and in the footpaths
^ they oscillated different coloured leds
^ A beautiful seascape
^ CREST workers Ketut, Chris, Ian and Pong
^ My room (no curtains, just screens)
^ The world cup football stadium in Jeju
^ A bus driver's holiday for us Solar Energy people
^ Stacks of rocks piled up by the sea and in the distance is the
volcanic crater we intended to climb
^ The view from near the top (click for bigger)
^ Inside the crater from the top (click for bigger)
^ The steep cliffs down to the sea behind the crater
^ Pong and Ketut point to the crater
^ There's a matriarchal society of divers here
^ Later on we visited a lava tube
^ This lava column happened when a tube of lava broke through into the
empty tunnel below
^ A telephone box ?
^ At the food court in a shopping centre
^ Pong eyeing up my dinner
^ Bad spellings "Petty Princess" !
^ Strange English "Drenching Body and Heart"
^ Our drivers Pong and Chris delivering the car back in one piece to
the airport