Well i'm finally finally finally home again in Masan! As much as I love to travel being home again is sweeeeeeeeet! I love the embrace of my bed (as we have been sleeping on jjimjilbang floors primarily), along with the sweet serenity of the silence of my own home, and the ability to NOT leave my house except for grocery shopping and exercising. All of these things allow me to recover and to buckle down for another WEEEEK of summer camp. Aiiy Caramba.
When I left off Brit and I were still in Seoul, we had (thankfully) recovered our packs and were headed to Jeju-do, an island off Korea's southern end which is claimed to be the "Hawaii of Korea". Lies. It's not even remotely CLOSE to being Korea's Hawaii. I think that claiming that title was detrimental for the Koreans for one simple reason: every place is different. Brit and I went to Mokpo, a town that claims "A City of Taste, Flavor, and Light". How much more wrong could they possibly be? Of all the cities i've been to in Korea this one was by far the most unhospitable, most unwelcoming city of all; if i'd lost my pack here it would be stolen and sold on the black market before I had even walked away from it! I have to give it credit though, it DID have some pretty dried fish markets.
Well we beat a quick retreat away from Mokpo and got onto a ferry that took us to Jeju. This was the BEST decision we could have made, not only was it SOO romantic in an old-movie titanic sort of way but it was also a BLAST to cruise through the islands! We weren't able to see much as it was incredibly foggy, but I believe that only increased the romanticism of the boat ride. We were approached by a lovely Chinese woman and her husband and they asked if they could take photos with us. Now, this isn't extremely uncommon as I am a white girl i'm like a freak show. People on the busses stand closer than necessary to me, they stroke my hair, and they take numerous photos with me. I think it's pretty funny and play along with it most of the time.
Once we got to Jeju Brit and I found a hotel and dropped off our packs and beat a quick retreat to "Love Land". From what I can tell, the Koreans are extremely conservative people, they believe that women should cover their shoulders and not show any chest, they wear longer skirts, and in general look professional 100% of the time. So it surprised me to discover that "Love Land" was a park dedicated to lude statues about sex! Haha! I will spare you the details but Brittoni and I giggled our way through the entire park, posing with the statues and just enjoying ourselves in general. After "love Land" we decided that we wanted to go to the beach to see the sunset so we hailed a taxi, well this taxi driver dubbed himself our personal tour guide and when I mentioned that I wanted to go horseback riding, he turned around and BAM we were suddenly horseback riding! This was fun! After this we finally made it to the beach where we enjoyed octopus tentacle pancakes (not nearly as gnarly as they sound) and watched the Koreans...float. More on this later but Koreans don't swim. They float.
When I left off Brit and I were still in Seoul, we had (thankfully) recovered our packs and were headed to Jeju-do, an island off Korea's southern end which is claimed to be the "Hawaii of Korea". Lies. It's not even remotely CLOSE to being Korea's Hawaii. I think that claiming that title was detrimental for the Koreans for one simple reason: every place is different. Brit and I went to Mokpo, a town that claims "A City of Taste, Flavor, and Light". How much more wrong could they possibly be? Of all the cities i've been to in Korea this one was by far the most unhospitable, most unwelcoming city of all; if i'd lost my pack here it would be stolen and sold on the black market before I had even walked away from it! I have to give it credit though, it DID have some pretty dried fish markets.
Well we beat a quick retreat away from Mokpo and got onto a ferry that took us to Jeju. This was the BEST decision we could have made, not only was it SOO romantic in an old-movie titanic sort of way but it was also a BLAST to cruise through the islands! We weren't able to see much as it was incredibly foggy, but I believe that only increased the romanticism of the boat ride. We were approached by a lovely Chinese woman and her husband and they asked if they could take photos with us. Now, this isn't extremely uncommon as I am a white girl i'm like a freak show. People on the busses stand closer than necessary to me, they stroke my hair, and they take numerous photos with me. I think it's pretty funny and play along with it most of the time. 
Once we got to Jeju Brit and I found a hotel and dropped off our packs and beat a quick retreat to "Love Land". From what I can tell, the Koreans are extremely conservative people, they believe that women should cover their shoulders and not show any chest, they wear longer skirts, and in general look professional 100% of the time. So it surprised me to discover that "Love Land" was a park dedicated to lude statues about sex! Haha! I will spare you the details but Brittoni and I giggled our way through the entire park, posing with the statues and just enjoying ourselves in general. After "love Land" we decided that we wanted to go to the beach to see the sunset so we hailed a taxi, well this taxi driver dubbed himself our personal tour guide and when I mentioned that I wanted to go horseback riding, he turned around and BAM we were suddenly horseback riding! This was fun! After this we finally made it to the beach where we enjoyed octopus tentacle pancakes (not nearly as gnarly as they sound) and watched the Koreans...float. More on this later but Koreans don't swim. They float.
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