Four people journeyed to the world of Greek mythology--while never leaving Jeju.
One of my 10am students, her two kids, and I went out for a bit of a tour on Wednesday, June 6. Our first stop was the Greek Mythology Museum about a 30 min. drive from Jeju City.
Once you arrive, you can see that they've tried to re-create Greece on this small area of Jeju, Korea.
The ticket office
Walking up to the museum.
The stitched mythology museum.
Hello, Mr. Discus-thrower man
Welcome to the "Creation Room," where one learns about the beginning of the Greek gods.
Ah, there's the earth goddess and the sky god.
Upon entry to the museum, you're given a sheet of paper. It is for the mission activities they have for the kids--and adults--throughout the museum. Basically, you must come to a "Mission" desk. There's a question you need to answer. If you're correct, then you stamp your mission stamp sheet. Really does keep it interesting.
Now we go to the Oracle Gallery.
Here we learn a little about horoscopes and which Greek god goes with which horoscope.
Well, here's a humble attempt in getting the info.
Now . . . off to Trick Art in the Hero and Human Galleries!
Hercules and the wild pig.
You're not throwing that wild boar in this glass container with me, are you?
Bye-bye.
I'm finally in Athens!
It's Medusa!
Quick, get the mirror!
Pegasus and I are ready to take Medusa down.
Ah, water for my water bottle.
Ugh . . . where should I go?
He did it!
Yeah, this is definitely not my fight.
Fighting with the Trojans.
Let me at'em! Let me at'em!
Yes, I had lots of fun here.
Now, it's time to leave. Going back down the same way we came, but with the opposite angle.
Follow the path.
Now, we're off to O'Solloc (Green Tea Museum)
There were many tourists there that day.
View of some of the green tea fields.
Nice place, eh?
View of the entrance from the observatory on the roof.
The view towards Halla Mountain.
Ah, Bavaria . . . ("Bayern" in German)
Oh, Meisen! I visited this factory back in 2007 after leaving Berlin.
The museum's cafe/gift shop.
All the products sold are made of green tea. . .
. . . and expensive.
But the prices didn't keep the tourists from buying!
I really liked the architecture and the clean atmosphere of the place.
It would've been more easy to appreciate with less people, but I wasn't in control of that.
Some of our treats--all made of green tea.
Now for our third and last stop: the Glass Castle (Glass Art Museum)
The entrance
The main building.
Bohemian glass (about 1 meter tall)
"Jack's beanstalk"
A glass maze.
It wasn't too difficult.
A glass orchestra.
We found a few odd things with this orchestra . . . including a guitar section.
A glass town at night.
Glass underwater scene.
Stunning horses.
Striking cobra
Saturn + 2 moons (?)
Glass Lotus flower and peacock.
Not the kind of stone wall I'm used to seeing . . .
What's a glass museum without a known fairy tale with glass shoes?
A glass carriage, if you want to feel like royalty from a fairy tale.
Glass desert complete with cacti.
Funky, hot, glass tree.
The pond with yet more glass works.
Small yet lovely cascade.
Where do you want to invest: love, health, or success?
Creative bathrooms.
More Bohemian glass.
Huh?
Glass garden across the glass bridge.
Glass flowers along the man-made (real) creek.
Want an orange?
For all the football fans out there!
(not soccer, FOOTBALL)
The back of the main building with wintry obstacles.
multi-dimensional tree/forest.
Just how "multi"? Well . . .
Ok, now we can see the back of the main building without any other obstacles that don't belong to the building itself.
Yeap, those are fish swimming upstream.
The view from the observatory, looking back to where we just were.
It's the beanstalk again.
Other random glass arrangements.
We've come to the end.
As you can see, it was a busy and fun day . . . one that should be repeated with different locations some time in the near future.
