Day 7: Jeju - Aimless Jungmun Resort Self Exploration

Day 7: The Shilla Hotel - The Hyatt Hotel - Cheonjeyeon - Jungmun Town - Chinese Temple - The Shilla Hotel

I decided to walked around Jungmun Resorts area, instead of accompanying my darling to ICC again. Not far from The Shilla Hotel, while walking towards the Hyatt Hotel, I saw this ancient building. This building seems to be a restaurant selling korean food cuisine. I think so...

The compound of the building is very spacious for car parking I suppose.Here I have reached Hyatt. Around 10 minutes walking distance from The Shilla Hotel.
Hyatt Hotel is situated on uphill facing the sea.

A beach only accessible from Hyatt Hotel. There is another beach "Jungmun beach", which is wider, is easily accessible to the public and residents from The Shilla Hotel.
Many of them enjoyed the water sports around, including motorboat and hanging in the air with parachute.

I met with a Korean girl who was travelling alone. She brought me to the nearby tourist center when I asked her about what was her plan for the day. Since she pointed out that she would be going to ICC, which I already been, I decided to continue to go on my own way again. Thus, I reached Cheonjeyeon Waterfall, 5 minutes walking distance from the tourist center.

The water is so blue... due to it consists of cobalt. It is written on the introductory board that this waterfall is believed to be a bathing place for the deities and fairies. This waterfall is big and it has 3 waterfalls. When there is heavy rain, the first waterfall will be formed with the water falling down along the wall.




This is the second waterfall formed about minutes away walking distance from the first one.

I am standing on a curve bridge with many of the fairy figures carved by the side of the bridge.

After crossing the bridge, I encountered the 5 blessings pond with different animals represents different blessing, including wealth, health, career ....
An observatory for the visitors to enjoy the view of Jungmun Resort and beach.

Lastly, I reached the third waterfall, that is another 15 minutes walking distance away from the second waterfall. The paths are all well-built and very convenient for everybody to visit this place, regardless of any age.

There is also a stage for performance on special occassion. The background is decorated with all the 7 fairies. Erm.. one is replaced by me. :P
I moved on with exploration of the tourist sites nearby but I have been walked for 1-2 hours, passing by the Jungmun town and then continue walking, until I saw a board pointing to go to a temple. Before reaching the temple, I walked through an village nearby, with very less of human and vehicle trace. I was quite worried on the safety and almost gave up when I saw an under renovation temple deep inside the village. My perseverance kept me going until I have reached this paradise.

This is a huge Buddhist temple. There is a big and tall buddha in the temple.

Upon my arrival at this place, there were already some local visitors praying for the family. I would have missed such a great architecture and paradise if I chosen to give up half way my journey just now. Perhaps, the Buddha has led me here. The serenity of the surrounding and the beauty of the view of sea right in front of the temple have made this place to be so SPECIAL!


Due to extreme tireness from too much walking (from 10am - 4pm), I decided to return to the hotel. No more walking!!! I was lucky that this temple was one of the airport bus stop (Bus Route 600). I spent KRW1000 as the bus fare to return at the doorstep of my hotel.

As for dinner, we treated ourself each a bowl of abalone porridge each, that cost KRW15 000 per bowl. My comment... expensive and does not taste as good as I thought (quite tasteless with a few pieces of abalone).