How to go to Udo Island from Jeju?

Is Summer too hot for you especially in the bustling city? Let's head to this romantic island with picturesque scenery to relax, refresh and recharge yourself!

Udo Island is legendary for its breath-taking white sand beach, water transforms into vivid shades of turquoise, emerald green, and aquamarine blue as the water  as the water becomes shallower around coral reefs. It also offers gorgeous weather in all year round - not too hot in summer and not too cold in winter.

About 30 minutes ferry ride will from Jeju will bring you to Udo Island. It is situated on the eastern end of Jeju Island, that makes it one of the most visited spots from Jeju.

Enjoy your day on a ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) or rent a bike to see 8 typical sceneries of Udo Island (Udopalkyeong =우도팔경). It means that "Day and Night", "Sky and Ground", "Front and Back', and "East and West". (Credit: Wikipedia)

• Juganmyeongwol (주간명월/晝間明月)
• Yahangabyum (야항어범/夜航漁帆)
• Chunjinguansan (천진관산/天津觀山)
• Jiduchungsa (지두청사/地頭靑莎)
• Jeonphomangdo (전포망도/前浦望島)
• Huhaesukbyeok (후해석벽/後海石壁)
• Dongankyeonggul (동안경굴/東岸鯨窟)
• Seobin Baeksa (서빈백사/西濱白沙)

Bring your driving license as you need it for renting ATV.

We lost our way because we tried shortcut to reach 'Juganmyeongwol' before 12 noon.

 

You can go inside the cave by boat or speedboat to see the see phenomenon of 

"day moon" where the sun shining through the entrance of the cave. 

The reflection creates the illusion of a full moon on the water. 

So sad that we missed to see the moon, but the view just breathtaking! 

Luckily few kind locals hiking around the area showed us the way out. One lady told us that we should follow the line on the road or just follow the recommended course on the map. 

Please check the video below and do let me know which color is the right track for ATV ride so we won't get lost again next time.

Lighthouse at 'Yahangabyum' and heart-shape rock 

We also hopped on Udo Tour bus to cruise around, and stopped at Udobong Peak

It's very popular and recommended walking path with panoramic views of Udo coastline. But the bus we took was the last bus of the day (17:00 pm)... 

So, we just walked around to take some photos. 

This nice eyes-soothing greenish field with lighthouse at the peak 

was filming site of Now and Forever (연리지).

The bus stopped at Udobong Peak for 20 minutes, then we hopped back the bus to bring us back to Seobin Baeksa Beach. 

Beautiful Seobin Baeksa with Sunrise Peak (Seongsan Ilchulbong) at the background.
It appeared frequently in films including Il Mare and Feast of the Gods. 

Playing and relaxing at this contrast beach with white sands and black rocks...

beautiful sunray before sunset...

Patiently sitting on the bench and waiting for the sunset around 19:30 pm

Panoramic view from Seobin Baeksa Beach

Do take your dinner before 18:00 pm, as most of the restaurants closed after that. But you can still get something to munch from convenience stores...

Seobin Baeksa is a nice spot to admire charming sunset!

Tranquil surrounding to really relax. It's not that crowded after 5 pm, as most of the tourists went there for day trip and back to Jeju Island. But we opted to spend a night in this cozy Minbak (Bed and Breakfast), White Castle Minbak.

Travel Information: 

Udo Island (우도해양도립공원)   

Gosumul-gil, Udo-myeon, Jeju-do 

제주 제주시 우도면 고수물길

1. Take bus bound for Dongilju (동일주) and alight at Seongsan Harbor Entrance (성산항입구).

2. Follow the road signage to go to Passenger Ship Terminal

3. Purchase 1-way or return ticket at the ticket booth.

4. Enjoy the view while the ferry transports you across to Udo Island 

5. Say "Annyeong" to Udo Island Summer Paradise~^^

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Minbak stay in Udo Island

Maybe I was a piggie in my previous life, and carried that habit to present life. I need at least 8 - 10 hours sleep including my nap time (oink oink). I always wonder why some people can sleep for merely 3-5 hours per day? Ah... not for me, as my brain will auto shut off even I tried not to close my eyes :P

Therefore, accommodation is one of important thing when I travel... Well, I don't particularly look for high end hotel as it just wasting my money... since I just spent less than half a day in the hotel room.

Most of the online hotel booking website have promotion rate for some of selected hotels. Which you just need to top up about $10 to $20 to get a better hotel (why not?). Normally, I'll look for the review whether they have clean room and bathroom and accessibility by public transport.

We stayed in this cozy White Castle Minbak (민박 = Bread & Breakfast) for 1 night in Udo Island (Udo Maritime Park).

Room no 202

Minbak room rate.

panoramic view from our balcony...

White Castle from front view



Room Features:

very spacious room with 2 queen sized bed, PC with free Wifi, fridge, wide-screen LCD TV, air conditioning, shower, hair dryer, kitchenette, heater stove and balcony facing SeobinBaeksa Beach (서빈백사).

Are you joking... with all this features, this is called minbak?!! No No No... this is a castle for me!

  

 Halmeoni with little puppy ^^

We should had our dinner first if we knew that sunset was around 7:30pm... By the time we watched beautiful sunset, we found that the island was so peaceful and calm. The problem was all nearby restaurants closed already! How?!! Luckily there's convenience store nearby minbak and we bought Ramen and sausages.

 convenience store...

The owner should be this Halmeoni. She's very nice... when we asked whether where we can get hot water for our Ramen. She did tell us that water dispenser was near the stairs, but she asked us to come in to her house (as it's getting cold outside), then she boiled water for us.

Although we had communication barrier with my limited Korean language, I do understand some of the things she said, though it's really hard for me to answer her. But, funny that we chatted like we have no problem understand each others ^^

simplest food we had, but it's the tastiest Ramen we ever had...
while watching Dr Jin in our room

할머니, 잘지내요? I miss her much... and that's one of the reasons that I want to revisit Udo Island.

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