Second day, more nature and the excitement of riding a horse
Korean breakfast at the hotel. Pretty much the same as we ate for lunch yesterday - rice and different dishes.
The first stop of the tour this day was at a shopping mall with Jeju specialities, mostly tandarin candies and medicines. And fake bangs.
This was followed by a walk through the forest on a hill.
The laughing walk
A buddhist temple
Stone was collected and put like this on a mountain pass, as a praise to the mountain God who was believed to be a guardian spirit
Mountain mineral spring
Watch out for that tree!
So, one event on the travel itinerary was horse riding...
Wearing that cowboy hat was a must!
Well the horse riding wasn't so interesting, the horses just nicely followed each other and all we had to do was to sit there and enjoy our five minutes. The lined us up for taking photos too, and I was thinking of maybe buying a photo for fun. But just one photo costed 35 dollars, or 250 kronor!! Whaaat.... We took our own photots
For lunch we got "black pork meat", that is, meat from a black pig.
After lunch we were taken to a traditional jeju village
These figures was often placed infront of villages at the gates to both scare away bad spirits and to welcome guests.
How the roofs was secured from tyfoons
The women in Jeju couldn't express their anger upfront, so they expressed it by using a jar as a drum to hit while singing. Jeju women also had to work hard supporting their family while the men was out fishing and trading on the mainland Korea. So instead of softly cradle the babies softly until they fall asleep, they rocked the cradle fast so the babies fell asleep quicker from dizziness...
A black pig
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