Doona Guesthouse & Divers

[Jeju Guesthouse] Jeju Island Guesthouse

Doona Guesthouse

http://www.doonaguesthouse.com/

1. location and traits

Jeju island is an southwestern island in Korea. It is a largest island of Korea, accounting for 1.9% of the whole country, and it has the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province. It performs very important role as not only a major transportation point with Korea, China and Japan, also politically, economically, and militarily since its location between the Yellow Sea and East China Sea.
Jeju island has a oval shape centering around Hanra mountain, slightly sloping to 73km to east and west, 41km to north and south. Its coastal road is 181km long and coastal line is 258km long. Jeju island is the warm temperate zone so that its temperature hardly drops below freezing even when winter comes. Hanra mountain, Seoungsan Ilchulbong(sunrise peak), Geomun Orum are acknowledged of their importance by Unesco and registered to World Heritage with a name of Jeju volcanic island and lava cave, in june, 2007.
Jeju island shows unique spectacle of volcanic one. The central mountain Hanra, forests and valleys with various animals and plants, parasitic volcanos and craters, caves and meadows... These natural landscapes are just gift of nature. What's more, the seashore all around the island shows us curious rocks, waterfalls, sandy beach and small islands.

2. Climate

Jeju island is on the Korea's southernmost sea. Because of the warm current of its coast, it has the typical warm oceanic climate. But there's Hanra mountain in the center of the island, so there's huge temperature difference between north part and south part. Its temperature is mostly high, recorded 16℃ of annual average, 33.5℃ of summer average, and its average temperature is 1℃ even in coldest January. Especially in Seogwipo(southern part) is warmest area in Jeju island, thanks to Hanra mountain blocking the cold northwester.
Jeju island's annual average precipitation is 1,440mm(Jeju-si), 1,688mm(Seogwipo-si), so it is rather moistful. The hilly and mountainous area(3000m) is rather a region with a greater deal of precipitation, affected by its geographical feature. But over the half of precipitation fell between middle of June and July, so called rainy season, so the rest of that season, you can travel Jeju pleasantly.

3. How to visit

(1) By plane
If you want to come Jeju island by plane, there's many lines departing from Kimpo(Seoul), Incheon, Busan, Cheongju in Korea. From Seoul, the capital of Korea, you can get Jeju in 1 hour. You can choose the airlines from major like Korean Air or Asiana, to rather cheaper Eastar Air, Jin-Air, T-way Air, Air Busan, Jeju Air, etc.. Actually, there's over 30 airplanes depart to Jeju from Kimpo a day, and you can get the ticket below 30,000won when it comes to weekdays. Cheaper airlines are not that different in service or safety in Korean domestic airlines, so it is wiser for you to use those cheaper airlines. But, in case of you are going to use weekend to travel, all the tickets are little more expensive than in weekdays, and there might no seats available, if you don't make a reservation. Recently in Korea, Olle tracking is so popular, so many people wants to come Jeju in weekend or national holidays. I recommend you make a reservation in advance. There's also airlines that make a direct flight to Jeju from Big city of Japan or China.

(2) By ship
It's not difficult to get to Jeju by ship. Ships between Incheon-Jeju, Mokpo-Jeju, Busan-Jeju, JangHeoung-Jeju available frequently. In case of Incheon-Jeju course, you can board at night and land on Jeju next morning. The ship you may board is like cruise ship, there's every conveniences and there's variety of parties for you. Mokpo-Jeju course takes 4 hours, and there's 2 ship a day. The ship is also cruise ship. Jangheoung-Jeju line takes only 1.5 hours, with high speed ship.

* Web sites of Airlines
Korean Air : koreanair.com
Asiana : www.flyasiana.com
Easta Air : www.eastarjet.com
Jin Air : www.jinair.com
T-way Air : www.twayair.com
Jeju Air : www.jejuair.net
Air Busan : www.airbusan.com

* Web sites of Ships
Incheon - Jeju : www.cmcline.co.kr (tel: 82-32-889-7800)
Mokpo - Jeju : seaferry.co.kr (tel: 82-61-243-1927)
Jangheoung - Jeju : www.jhferry.com (tel: 82-1577-5820)
Busan - Jeju : www.dyferry.com (tel: 82-1688-7577)

[Jeju Guesthouse] Jeju Island Guesthouse - Doona Guesthouse

http://www.doonaguesthouse.com/

This is a cozy guesthouse in Seogwipo run by Doona. It has newly opened March, 2011 so all the facilities are new. It has beautiful, colorful dormitory rooms. Doona Guesthouse is at a traditional town of Jeju, surrounded by stonewalls. But at the same time, you need only 10 minutes get into the downtown in Seogwipo, from the guesthouse. There's so many tourist attractions like Soesokkak, Jeongbang waterfall, Cheonjiyeon waterfall, Jejigi Orum(parasitic volcano), Bomok port, Gudumi dock, Seop island, and etc, and they're also only 10 minutes far from the guesthouse. The coast and Olle(traditional road) course 6 is just in front of it and you can see Seop island and Hanra mountain in the guesthouse.

Doona Guesthouse makes you fully enjoy the true Jeju, since it's located in the center of Jeju's traditional town. Only if you just walk along the low stonewall road consisting of basalt, you can feel the traditional and naive mood of Jeju. The beautiful scenery of Hanra mountain, restfulness enjoying at the broad lawn garden, citrus trees and persimmons will make your body and mind comfortable ever. The coast of the front is the middle of Olle course 6, you can see Seop island there, and enjoy diving, snorkeling, fishing, and all the thing you can do at the seashore.

Doona Guesthouse is located in Bomok village. Bomok village is a small town, but there's everything your trip needed. Supermarket, restaurant, bank, small pub, etc.. If you want to go shopping to downtown of Seogwipo, just ride on the bus and drive 10 minutes, with no inconvenience. It is also fun that riding a rental bicycle of the guesthouse and looking around downtown or scenery.