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[deetah]

Has anyone been to Uellung-do? Your opinion? What was the best part of trip there? Seasick on the way there? Worth it?

[flotsam]

Best place in Korea. Hands down. Well worth it. My friend got seasick, but he's a girl. If your *beep* are actually attached to your body(even the metaphorical ones real women have) you'll be fine.

[happeningthang]

Everyone's asking about Ulleng-do lately... I don't know what floaties did on Ulleng-do, but if there's anything more exciting than hiking, a 5 minute cable car ride, and ubiquitious local museum... I missed it.

It has it's charm as an authentic all-Korean, "small town/ fishing village charm" experience. No English, no hotels - bartering with local halmonis for min-bak accomodation in sign language. It's kind of cool to wander and soak it all in, take a bus trip and hike, but that's all that's on offer.

[ajuma]

I agree with floatsam. It's the best place in Korea. The boat trip isn't too bad...lots of grandma's barfing in the bags, though!

Favorite part of the boat trip: They were showing "Speed 2"!!! (For those who don't remember, that's the one with the boats!)

Favorite part of the island:

1) Eating FRESH fish. Kept in the ocean until you're ready to eat!

2) Hiking over the mountain and finding a Korean woman in a coffee shop who spoke Spanish!!

[Demophobe]

Get off the boat, hike over the mountain and fall into the sea on the other side. Very small place.

[bluelake]

I had my honeymoon there twenty-two years ago. Back then, the slow boat was nine hours and the fast one was six; we took the slow one--my wife was sick all the way.

On a hike up the hill, my wife got really tired a third of the way up. I ended up carrying my backpack, her backpack, and her the rest of the way (today, I'd have trouble carrying just myself).

We camped near a man-made waterfall and paid 500 won to take a shower under it the next day. We took a fishing boat ride around the island and snorkeled in a quiet cove.

The day we planned to leave, a typhoon was coming in. We scrambled to the boat office to get a ticket out--so did everyone else. We were told that you couldn't get advance tickets, so we waited at the door, only to have it open at 8 a.m. and hear the announcement that all tickets had been sold in advance to a Japanese tour group We all dashed to the other boat company and got two of the last fifty tickets off the island. A supervisor from our school and his family weren't so lucky--they got stranded on the island during the storm and had to wait; unfortunately, they didn't have enough money, so they had to hock things just for ramyon and a place to stay.

I'd love to visit back there again.


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[flotsam]

FARGING HELL PEOPLE!!!

I have lots of good stuff to post about Ulleung-do, but I ain't doing it until people learn how to spell and edit their posts.

People, I mean, it's not like "Qinella" or something--it's a real word.

Don't make me give you lines for HW.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

What's so different about the boat ride that makes so many passengers seasick?

PS - Just be happy they aren't calling you Flitsam

[bluelake]

[the_beaver]

My favorite place in Korea.

Not much happening there. People get together at night to have squid near the harbor and there's a whole lot of people eating 엿 and I like it because it's just a relaxing place to eat squid and 엿 and get a bunch of reading done.

And it really amuses me to listen to the Korean symphony of seasickness.

[Neil]

That cable car is a death trap I tells you.

But the scenery is beautiful and the people are some of the most friendly I've come across in the ROK.

[VanIslander]

flotsam, ajumma, the beaver... the best place in Korea to travel to?

I LOVED Ulleungdo, had a great time, soaked up the sights, was quite moved by the experience, had an insider's tour by that old Korean guy who had spent years in Los Angeles so his English is good, even stayed with some locals on the other side of the island for a spectacular sunrise. The island seems very un-Korean, and so does offer that getaway experience.

But Ulleungdo was a bit too touristy and the most expensive trip I've ever taken in Korea (and I've spent a lot of weekends travelling). That's right, more expensive than Jeju.

I think there are better value wonders along the southern coast, lots of great islands with character. But I'm a bit biased because I like great beaches and Ulleungdo is not the place for that.

I have Ulleungo in my Top-10 but to be number one? Dang, you haven't done much in the southern provinces of Jeollanamdo and Gyeongsangnamdo, have you?

[ajuma]

VI: I HAVE traveled a lot around the islands around Mokpo and Busan...even visiting your sacred Goji (talk about touristy!!), but for the friendliness of the people, the beauty of the scenery and lack of foreign tourists (love the groups of ajumas and halmonies!), give me Uulung-do every time!

[flotsam]

[the_beaver]