Greetings!
Jeju Island is 65 miles south of mainland South Korea. It has the tallest mountain in the country, 150 miles of beautiful coastline, and has always been a vacation spot. We flew to it from Busan this morning, and we're flying out tomorrow to Seoul. This afternoon, we checked out a tea museum, a collection of basalt columns on the coast, and a Buddhist temple. As we did, you should know that the Cherry blossom season lasts a week to ten days. Today is the height of the season, and we've been at the right place almost every day.
The Jusangjeolli Cliffs, part of the Jungmun Tourism Complex on the southern part of Jeju Island, has cliffs with tetragon- or hexagon-shaped columnar pillars. They were created when thick basaltic lava at about 1,000 degrees Celsius flows from the mouth of a volcano and cools rapidly. About 30-40 meters tall, extending for about one kilometer, they are the largest such natural formation in Korea.
The original
Yachcheonsa Buddhist Temple left no records of its origin. The stories are that in a cave or a small hermitage a Confucian scholar drank water from a mineral spring, and it resulted in a dream and better health. He built the first temple (Yaksuam), and lived their the rest of his life.
In 1982, work on the present temple began. To see more photos of it, and of the entire day, click on:
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