Korea Trip Part 8

This member of the branch when Andrew served in Jeju helped line up a guest house at a university for us to stay in while we were in Jeju.  He is a professor of business there.  He met us at the airport the night before and helped us arrange a rental car.  He also arranged for us to eat at the cafeteria at the university.  Our breakfast here cost about $1.30 a person.  He was so kind to us.  He kept referring to Andrew as his dear friend.  He spoke English better than any of the other Koreans we met on this trip. 

Dave wanted to me to take a picture of the GPS in our car.  Andrew sat up front with Dave and helped him navigate the Island of Jeju.

It is a tropical place.  I loved the huge blossoms on this tree.

Jeju is basically a huge volcano.  We went inside this cavernous lava tube.

The lava tube had stalagtites and stalamites.

We were glad we had a rental car for this island.  Public transportation isn't as good here as it is in the rest of Korea.

We took a ferry over to another island called U Do.

When we got off the ferry they were selling peanut bread.  The island is famous for peanuts.  We had peanut ice cream there as well.

This little island had no way to get around so we rented four wheelers.

U Do and Jeju used to be Matriarchal societies where the women would work in the fields and then dive for food all day.  The men stayed home and raised the children.  There are statues honoring these women all over the island.

We were able to drive around the entire perimeter of this little island in less than two hours.

It was interesting that on the ferry we had to take off our shoes when entering  and sit on the floor.  It is the Korean way.

Landing back on Jeju.

We took a hike along with about a thousand other people to the top of this volcanic crater.

Looking down into the crater.

That night we walked through one of the open air markets.

We met up with a young man who served two years ago with Alex on his mission in Seoul.  He now lives in Jeju and Andrew got to know him really well in the branch there.  We took him to dinner.

Then he treated us to Pop Bean Su, which is a huge bowl of ice, fruit, beans and ice cream.

We went over to the church where Andrew served later and this young man that Andrew knew was there practicing the piano.  He practices about 6-8 hours a day.  He is planning on going to BYU on a music scholarship.  His piano playing was amazing!  I wouldn't be surprised if he is famous someday.  He was that good.

We have called Alex "Han" for years.  So we had to get a picture of this Deli.  We actually ate at one later in the trip.