Jeju-Do Anniversary Trip Part 1

 Jeju-do or Jeju Island is located off of the southern tip of South Korea. Jeju-do has all sorts of history and legend associated with it. Most importantly, it was where almost all South Koreans went for their honeymoons until very recently when passport restrictions were relaxed, allowing South Koreans the ability to travel more freely. As a result, there are lots of romantically themed, and fertility themed sites and legends associated with Jeju-do.  If you want to read about Jeju-do, here is a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju-do

We had a wonderful trip in celebration of our first anniversary as a married couple. We spent 5 days and 4 nights on the island, relaxing, eating and sightseeing. Jeju-do is incredibly lush and beautiful so instead of telling you ALL about it, I thought I would just show you. We took TONS of pictures on our trip. I hope you enjoy.

There are so many pictures that I will have to split them up into multiple pages on the blog. I will do my best to group them according to:

Hotel - Hyatt Regency Jeju
Golfing on Jeju Island - Blog by David Shelton
Botanical Gardens - Different gardens within the botanical gardens
Dol Hareubang - (Grandfather Stone)
Love Land - Given the nature of Love Land, this particular blog post may not be for everyone. Love Land is a sex themed sculpture park, if you find this sort of thing offensive, please skip over this section. We thought it was quite hilarious. Not only because of the sculptures, but because of all of the little old Korean women giggling there way through the park along with the newly married couples. 

We hope you enjoy our blog! 

To get to Jeju-do we drove from Chinhae to the Gimhae airport in Busan. We caught a short, domestic flight on Korean Air to Jeju-do, grabbed our bags and then took a very inexpensive airport shuttle bus from the north of the Island to our Hotel.

The weather was beautiful, warm and humid. Perfect for relaxing on the coast!

 This is the Dol Hareubang or Grandfather stone, more to come on this guy later.