1_P1010087.JPG=On the second day, Alex and I hiked most of the way up Mt. Halla, at 2000 m the tallest mountain in Korea.  This photo was taken at the beginning of the climb, when I still thought that wearing shorts that day was a pretty good idea.
2_P1010102.JPG="Beach cockroaches".
2_P1010114.JPG=A family of snails.
2_P1010043.JPG=A view of the hotel from the conference center.
2_P1010146.JPG=Alex and John starting the climb to Sunrise Peak.
1_P1010041.JPG=John and I at the entrance to the bridge of the seven nymphs over the Cheonjaeyeon waterfalls.
2_P1010097.JPG=A diver returns with her catch.
3_P1010041.JPG=John on the beach by the hotel.
1_P1010092.JPG=Here I'm thinking that I hope it doesn't get much colder.  About two minutes after this photo, an elderly lady stopped to tell us that I really shouldn't be wearing shorts.
1_P1010051.JPG=Tangerine sellers on the way to Jasungjolli Rocks.  Jeju Island is famous for its tangerines (which were in fact great), and at the Jeju airport you can see families getting onto airplanes with armloads of tangerine crates.
1_P1010101.JPG=It was an unusually gray and misty day, so the view wasn't all that we had hoped for.  But it was still very worthwhile.
2_P1010052.JPG=There were cosmos all over the island.
1_P1010100.JPG=Most of the trail was very well-groomed, making the climb very manageable.
3_P1010049.JPG=Rice fields.
1_P1010037.JPG=Cactus flower with a little guest.
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2_P1010063.JPG=Another group of tangerine sellers.
1_P1010084.JPG=John and I have our first "real" Korean meal with Jami, including the Jeju local tradition, black-skinned pig.  The most unusual side dish (to me) was fermented raw crab kimchee...
3_P1010046.JPG=If the Jeju-Seoul flight is any indication, Korean roofs are 85% blue, 10% red, and 5% green.
1_P1010079.JPG=The beach by our hotel.  The water was quite warm.
3_P1010018.JPG=Going...
3_P1010021.JPG=Going...
1_P1010035.JPG=Lily pad unfolding at the botanical gardens in Jeju
3_P1010023.JPG=Still going...
1_P1010039.JPG=A French (?) garden at the botanical gardens.  Those cotton-ball trees in the background were all over Korea.
2_P1010123.JPG=Alex and John inside a cave.
2_P1010005.JPG=At the end of our hike, we stopped at the shelter to defrost over some Ramen noodles.
3_P1010032.JPG=If you look at the TV carefully, you might be able to tell what day it was.
3_P1010017.JPG=Going...
2_P1010122.JPG=On our last afternoon in Jeju, Alex, John, and I did some sightseeing on the east side of the island.  Here we are at the entrance to Manjanggul, the lava tube caves.
2_P1010071.JPG=A pretty bird, obscured by a dark background...
3_P1010038.JPG=The view from my balcony.
2_P1010064.JPG=More friendly tangerine sellers.
2_P1010028.JPG=Chao's camera also documented our cross-legged impropriety.
1_P1010044.JPG=Finally, the nymphs.  (They are the white figures on the bridge.)\
We followed the staircase in the foreground, which winds down to the waterfalls.
3_P1010045.JPG=Flying over a golf course (?) on the way to Seoul.
1_P1010038.JPG=These flowers were all over the island.
2_P1010055.JPG=I am a sucker for cosmos.  They are much nicer in real life, though.
2_P1010139.JPG=Harubang at the entrance to Sunrise Peak.
1_P1010069.JPG=Walking back to our hotel from the Jusangjolli Rocks.
2_P1010161.JPG=The edge of the crater at the top of Sunrise Peak.
3_P1010030.JPG=Some snapshots of my hotel room (note the desktop computer that was included!)
2_P1010069.JPG=The Jusangjolli Rocks.
1_P1010053.JPG=Jusangjolli Rocks, a 2km piece of coastline with unusually shaped lava rocks.  They all have hexagonal cross-sections!  At the entrance to the Rocks were some street vendors, from whom we sampled some snails and silkworm larvae.  The larvae are apparently a very popular snack (we decided that it is an acquired taste).
3_P1010024.JPG=Gone.
2_P1010041.JPG=On the last day of the conference, I went for a walk to the Jusangjolli Rocks again.
2_P1010078.JPG=The speck in the background is one of a group of women who make a living diving for seafood here.
2_P1010136.JPG=Exiting the lava cave.
1_P1010098.JPG=This family offered us some home-made bean dumplings, which were delicious.
1_P1010046.JPG=One of the Cheonjaeyeon waterfalls.
2_P1010060.JPG=Another walk down to Jungmunjolli Rocks from the conference center.
3_P1010014.JPG=We waited at the top for the sun to set.
1_P1010107.JPG=I love moss.
2_P1010006.JPG=Back down the mountain...
2_P1010023.JPG=For dinner on the first night of the conference, Jami took the SLS group out for a royal Korean feast.
2_P1010061.JPG=A group of harubang, or jolly lava-rock men.
1_P1010093.JPG=Some neat lava rock formations on the side of the mountain.
2_P1010120.JPG=A TV show being filmed in our hotel.
2_P1010119.JPG=A street vendor by the conference center.  I skipped the larvae this time.
2_P1010105.JPG=I thought I would dip my feet in the water, until I noticed that the rocks are all covered with those beach cockroaches.
2_P1010001.JPG=The cloud-covered top of the mountain.
3_P1010022.JPG=Going...
1_P1010058.JPG=A view from above, showing the hexagonal cross-sections.
2_P1010027.JPG=The improper way of sitting.
2_P1010004.JPG=Much of the ground was carefully covered with pieces of burlap.
