Korea Trip Day 2 - Jeju Island (part 2)

Previously, I mentioned that Jeju Folk Village (济洲民俗村) is the place where the famous show 大长今 fliming took place...the village consists on huts, animal farm and vegetation farm. There is also a 大长今 mini-museum. Jeju Folk Village's area is quite big, i think about 1.5 times of Jurong Bird Park. The ship is like a 'weapon' to last time army, that's why it is being placed right at the entrance, to represent protection of the area. Among the photo, you would see a black pig right? This is the famous 黑毛猪 (remembered I mentioned about the delicious bbq pork meal in my previous post?). Only the fur/outside part is black, but internally is the same as normal pig. The pig you see is only for 'display set' (coz only got 2 of them in a small sty) like how previously olden days people will keep and rear. There are actual farms to keep many of them.

Here's an interesting fact. Actually beside the sty, is where people do all their "business", and directly below is an hole linkage, for "business" to flow out and after that those pig would eat them up (as part of their main dishes) lor. wahaha! Also, notice the symbolic figure again?

Regarding their huts, the more the wooden stills that support their huts, the richer the family is. Also their wooden front (x-shaped) doors can also represent whether the lady in the house is a widower or not. Represented by a hankerchief placed at the wooden door. They also displayed an artifical horse milling (whereby a horse instead of a human are used to move the stone grind machine).

Anyway, this village would be nice for those who like to experience non-city lifestyle (rather greenery), coz no tall buildings, no cars/vehicles are allowed to park within certain circumference of the village. Before we left for the place, my parents bought two jars of jam, that are made of natural fruit sources. Quite cute the packaging (but forget to take the photos of them).

As we travelled to the next destination, the tour guide told us that among the Korean artistes, only two has never went for cosmetic surgery. Guess who? One of them, is mentioned here (在戏里面的灵魂人物. And she acted in《火花》). the other is the one acted in 天国的阶梯, as the bad sister/lady who loves 权相宇 to no avail (the same lady is actually a very bright student in real life as well). Think you would know which two I am referring to ba. haha! But generally, the rest have done a bit of cosmetic surgery, especially in Korea, beauty is sought after as well as highly maintained (but their good skin texture helps them to look at least pleasant and clean). Erm, we forget to ask how much their cosmetic surgery is....wahaha!

The next stop was at the Teddy Bear Museum (泰迪熊博物馆). It was a three-level building with an outside garden. The teddy bears were designed in different materials and of different theme (different culture and countries). One of the photos I took was the famous korea ou xiang ju 宫's 4 famous bears (representing the leading roles). At the ground level was where some of the bear dolls were sold. We bought two: one boy with golf dressing, the other girl with maiden dressing...although some dolls were pretty much expensive (especially those with special clothings on them). Some keychains/bags/pencil boxes were sold as well.

The most expensive bear was named as LV Bear. The funny thing is...I didn't managed to see the bear lor! (wondering where they placed?) So only able to show through the pamphlet that was given to tourists (see the 1st pamphlet bottom ride handside). It is most expensive not only because of the leather material, but it is an auctioned bear for charity purpose.

1st phamplet side:

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2nd phamplet side:

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The last place we went before the day ends is called the Mysterious Road (奇幻山坡).

Whoa...really mysterious until I can't feel it. -_-'''. According to the tour guide, when one is on the Mysterious Road, will experience the strange phenomenon of going uphill when one's vehicle's engine is turned off. So she let us all stand in the middle of the road to test out the phenomenon. She told us to walk up the road for a certain distance, then turn around and walk down, returning the same distance moved. But hor, I did the same thing about 4 times, but can't really feel the difference leh. (the host joked that if we can't feel, then need to see doctor le. ha!)

She wanted to show us also by pouring water on the road and observe the water flow. But it is too late at night (6pm already 乌漆漆) to perform the task, so in the end didn't do it.

The Mysterious Road looks like any normal down-slope road (with repeat pattern waves down the path for about 2km), but certain part of it has an unusual phenomenon. This phenomenon also caused some drivers to be "blurred", so much so they actually slow down while driving past that particular portion. It is because of human's eye parallel view (especially when the lights shone on the road, will affecting your sight as though your eyes are viewing into different plane levels, where theorectically is not so.) A bit hard to descibe here how the Mysterious Road looks like, coz I forget to bring down my camera la. (Actually I thought why on earth the guide bought us to some wulu place, coz it doesn't seems to me got any buiding/significant signs at all. Was complaining to my sis in fact that she bought us down to shiver and I can't feel what she wanted us to feel. haiz.) hoho!

So after that "Mysterious" Road, we returned to our Hotel for a good night rest! Coz next day we will travel back to mainland - to Daegu by an hour flight + an hour of coach travelling before reaching a temple, that was claimed as 很仙灵, by many Koreans. One of their established temples as well, coz there is a very big park surrounding it. I will mentioned more about their habits (especially their elders) in my next update.