RyRy's in Korea: Jeju-do: Part 8: Chocolate and the Hyatt

After leaving the waterfall park, we decided we didn't want to go to the botanical gardens. Even though you ride a tram through the park, we (or at least I) was done with nature for awhile. So we crossed the street and decided to try out Chocolate Land. On Jeju it seems like there is a theme park or museum for everything. My favorite name (although we didn't go here, tear) was the "Theme Park of Retrospection". Sounds like a party, no? Neither of our guide books mentioned Chocolate Land, but who doesn't want to go to a land of chocolate? It was $2 each, but we also each got a $2 coupon for use at the store. The "land" part was very lame. Basically, they had about 10 displays of chocolate. There was stuff about how chocolate is made (all in Korean), a few pieces of chocolate art (like seashells), a display that was "Not Chocolate", and then a large room with a statue of Willie Wonka (the Johnny Depp version) and boxed chocolate from around the world. I had eaten most of it, except weird bugs and other stuff from Asia and South America. There was also an area where you could make chocolate molds, but we think you had to pay extra. They had 2 areas where you could taste a small bit of chocolate. Mom and I both tried the cactus flower chocolate (very sweet, almost a raspberry taste), I tried the green tea chocolate (slightly bitter, but good) and mom tried the tangerine chocolate, which we later bought a box of with our coupons as a gift for my co-workers.

Me in front of Chocolate Land

This display is not made of chocolate, in case you were confused by the sign.

After Chocolate Land, we debated about going to the Teddy Bear Musuem, but it cost like $10 a person to get in, plus mom knew she would buy at least 1 bear, so we decided not to go. We walked back to the Hyatt, and actually walked around the side of the building down a little path next to a stream. At the end of the path there were more steps (which brought our total number of steps to around 10,000 that day) down to a beach area. There were a bunch of large rocks and a huge cliff. There was a sandy area, but you couldn't swim because the water was so rocky. Body surfing was definetly out.

Me climbing on a rock walkway after climbing down the stairs from the Hyatt grounds

Standing on the beach in front of the huge cliff face

The "beach"

Mom in front of the cliff face

Mom on the beach area. You can see the rock in the water. It was like that for at least a few meters in.

Water crashing on the rocks

Then we walked back up the stairs and down the wooden pathway along the property edge. There was another beach on the opposite end that was probably swimmable, but we were done with stairs for the day, plus it was too cold for swimming. We went upstairs for happy hour, had some drinks and food (that day the marzipan was chocolate, the dessert was a chocolate pudding, they had calamari and a pasta salad along with the regulars) and sat and talked for awhile. We were both tired and had to get up early in the morning to catch our flight back. So mom snuck some crackers and cheese out in a napkin and we went back to our room. Mom took a bath and read for awhile and I upload more pictures.