Jeju Island Stone Museum, 2014

I told you a story about Jeju island and then we had a tour of the Museum of Glasses. Today we will continue our trip today. The next destination is the Museum of Stones.

There are 2 stone museums, but I visited only one. Jeju island is a volcano island, and there are a lot of different stones. Some stones look really amazing and incredible. And citizens of the island don’t miss a chance to show it to others. These stones are real nature’s gifts.

Don’t forget that Stone Park, Stone Village, Stone museum are 3 different places. Actually, there are a lot of similar places on Jeju Island. Like Museum of Glass and Park of Glass, about which I told you last time.

The entrance to the park costs 5,000KRW or 5$. But for kids ticket costs 3,000KRW or 3$. But for kids ticket costs 3,000KRW or 3$. The park is not so large, it will take about 1 hour to walk around it. The tour will start with a small museum with only one hall. The local guide will tell you shortly about the park itself, and some special stones. Also, he will you some tips, how and where to get insta-photos.

It is not difficult to find the park, it is located right on the road. And the main building is designed with stones. The museum is open from 9 AM till 6 PM.

So, coming back to the museum building, the core museum piece is a big stone with a hole of heart shape. Lovers should stand on the opposite sides, and connect their hands in the hole. So, their love will be for all eternity. I thought that this story was made up by the museum owner, but who knows. The most important thing is to believe, isn’t it?!

Beside it, there is a small hallasan or Halla mountain, I told you about it when I told you about Jeju island itself.

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So, now it's time to look at the outside part of Stone Village.

In the beginning, a museum guide will introduce to you a small lake, the shape of which is like a Korean peninsula. A guide told me that this lake is nature’s creation. Noone adds water to the lake, it does nature by itself.

There is a so-called zoo zone, where you can find a collection of stones of animal shape. It seems I have bad eyesight, but I couldn’t see any animal there. For example, they said there is a flying duck in the center.

The only animal I found was an elephant.

The next zone is the family zone. In that zone, stones tell a story. For example, let’s take a look at this group of stones. The main heroes of that story are Dolly and Manny. The story starts from the left to the right. So, Dolly and Manny love each other a lot. They lived together, and they had grandchildren. So, in the end, they became one stone, like one family.

Here is a big family of Dolly and Manny.

Here Dolly and Manny stand together and hug each other.

Then, we will go forward, and we will see a park with unique trees if be precise stones and trees. Here trees grow from the stone’s core. When I looked at some of these trees, I couldn’t find where are their roots.

There were a couple of trees the branches of which weave with each other.

Look at this picture. This picture represents Jeju Island. In the center is Halla Mountain, and the small stones around are the 368 small volcanos, which are spread around Jeju Island.

Many different Korean dramas and movies were filmed here. You can see it on the poster. By the way, Koreans like to show up which celebrities visited their place. So you often can see photos or pictures of celebrities in different cafes.

On the tour, we will finish with a legend, which guides told us. So, according to the legend, the Jeju island was created by grandmother Sollmunde. She had 500 sons. Once her sons went hunting, and grandmum stayed at home to make dinner. By mistake, she fell down to the soup and disappeared there. When sons came back home, they ate this soup. When they understood what happened to their mom, they started to cry. Their red tiers covered azalea flowers, which were growing everywhere on Jeju. The boys became stone cliffs. These 500 cliffs are calling 500 generals.

Many tourists call the trip to Jeju Island ‘Eco-trip’ because Jeju Island has an amazing nature, many parks on the opened area, exhibits of which were created by nature itself.