Jeju Island Day 3 - A long Day Ahead with Climb & Fun towards Seopwipo

From the window of our room we could see the sea with the row of windmill turbines, It was windy and cold outside. We left Mega Resort at about 8.00am.

Our breakfast at GS 25, we met the same girl at the counter who gave us the tip as to where we could look for our accommodation. We communicated with her in Mandarin, I guess she is of the many Chinese from mainland China working in South Korea.

On the bicycle lane again and its indicates 33.2km to the next stamping booth.

A tiny village at the neighbourhood where we took a quick detour to check out the place and a few photo takings.

A photo with the row of Shingaemul windmill turbines at GPS :

33.343063, 126.174382

We discovered another public bath as we got closer to the windmills at Shingaemul.

One more with the iconic mills.

The weather remained cold but lovely to cycle with the beautiful scenery along the way.

I enjoyed the setting of this area with a lovely down hill roll together with a vast green field (probably this is a paddy field) and this was at the initial route at the vicinity of Noeulhaean-ro. See the video attached.

Then we were out of the paddy field area and the running crowd from the marathon event. We were now into another dimension of Jeju Island.

A pit stop and quick rest before we move on ......

It's back to the same old routine with scenery of ocean, rock and black rock along cycling lane as we followed diligently on the blue line.

By accident we came to this wet market, it is a big market selling all kind of stuffs and food. We just could not resist the local food and decided to stay put for our lunch. We tried the spicy rice cake (Tteokbokki), sweet pan cake (Hotteok) served in a paper cup, Eomuk Guk fish cake on skewers, skewered meat (maekjeok) etc etc.

The market at Sinyeong-ro GPS : 33.220197, 126.248166

The ride was still on flat land unfortunately the ride ahead was expected to be hilly. 

Approaching the vicinity of Mt. Songaksan and a stamping booth is just located next to 7-11 outlet. The place was crowded with tourists.

Songaksan, Stamping Booth GPS: 33.206649, 126.289606. Mt. Songaksan is just nearby and can be seen from here. This was at our 34th KM of the day.

Another Haenyeo statue.

The climb is coming and at the front is Mt. Songak-san.

Sanbanggulsa Temple as viewed  from the cycling route.

Opposite the temple is this place where we took a rest and regroup before we move on into the climbing stretch. ZuYi was not complaining I guess he was doing well so far.

At our 37th KM we stopped at this Hallabong Mandarin orange farm for a photo shoot and a taste of the fruit. It's apparently famous in Jeju and a favourite fruit during winter, it is more expensive than the ordinary mandarin orange. Located at along Sanbang-ro GPS:33.242135, 126.324198 

We were trying our luck to take a shortcut to avoid severe climb at the coastal edge but the Police gave us a big "No No". The Police Station at Hwasunimjung-ro GPS : 33.238565, 126.336538. The policemen were helpful they even offered us hot coffee to drink.

Museum of Sex & Health along Iljuseo-ro GPS : 33.255414, 126.344862 after more than 45KM of pedalling.

After a bit of the main road at Iljuseo-ro we were directed back into the quiet interior with steep climb and downhill. It was away from traffic but not the steepness of the route.

It's back to civilisation with nice buildings and road. 

We passed by a huge project by our Malaysian developer Berjaya at Yerae. We noted that this street will soon be covered with cherry blossom, it will be great if we could be there in a week time as the buds and trees were showing sign of blooming.

Darkness has started to creep in and we were still in a position of looking for a place to put up. Finally we got ourselves in 2 places which was close to one another. Dinner was at one of the hotel we were staying and the food has been always good and yummy. With a few glasses of beer it was a good evening to rest and recharged for the next day.

Finishing our 2nd stage of ride with a distance of 56km and arriving at a place called Jungmun, southern part of the island.

A video clip of Day 3