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[cazador83]

Will everything shut down in Jeju during the lunar new year or would it be an alright destination? I have this feeling that maybe the whole country will shut down or something....but not sure about Jeju.

Anyone know?

[whatever]

Nah. There's a huge fire festival. It was the isht last year! Basically, imagine setting an enormous hill on fire with gasoline while everyone gets hammered...

[cazador83]

wow, where exactly is this on jeju?

by the way, what else is worth doing and seeing for about 4 days? i've never been before!

[pkang0202]

I'm thinking about heading to Jeju myself. Problem is, I have no idea what to do when I get there.

[luvnpeas]

I was thinking about going to Jeju next week, during my vacation. Is the best to go to fly? Can you take a boat from Busan? I kinda wanted to check out Busan too.

[eliross]

You can take a boat from Incheon if you want. Here's the time tables/prices from Mokpo, Incheon, and Busan. The thing is (according to my friends) you can get flights for 150k from Seoul. So you only save 40k or less taking a boat. Pretty good deal to save about twenty hours of travel.

http://english.tour2korea.com/01TripPlanner/Transportation/ferry_jeju.asp?kosm=m1_4&konum=subm2_3

[n�fara]

There are lots of things to see on Jeju, but it can be better if you have a car. Driving around here's pretty easy once you get outside of Jeju-si. Any of the main tourist info places should have a decent map of the island with some cool (and not so cool) places to see.

If you do come over and rent a car, I recommend NOT taking the coastal road the entire time, at least on the east side south of Ilchulbong. The road is nice, there view's good, but there number of illogical red lights are annoying. I find the interior roads much more scenic.

Climbing Hallasan is nice, but you may want to pick up some crampons (those metal spike thingies for you boots, you can get a cheap pair at Emart) since it gets a bit icy up there.



Sadly, for those coming for the Lunar New Year, the fire festival won't be happening until Feb. 21-23rd.

If you want to take a look at some info (I hope this link works) check out:

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/YOuZR0qAfPR4u0gD1NvRza0xcxQkzlQP9ZjH2LEGJh7kjDxr2g2ul7eWoxtKdVi11VPK2_mCIdax97BNQ4UpsRyUgJvifyZxrbM/Fire%20Festival%202008-Jeju.pdf

Wow, that's a long link. Sorry for breaking the page. It takes a bit to load, but has the info about the fire festival.

Oh, and just remember, even though Jeju can be a bit warmer than other places, it's still winter here, and cold.

[NightSky]

any point in going in the last week of February? Is it going to be miserable weather-wise?

[n�fara]