WARNING: Photo overload scroll all the way down if you want to see more text, and also graphic images, kind of. You have been warned.
I’ve been looking forward to typing this post for a long time HAHA. So Samcheok was something I planned to go with Zenn and actually our initial itinerary was just to cover the cave and the penis park. But things don’t always go as predicted, when we reached we realized the problems of the bus frequency and travel time. Because bus to the cave was so scarce, only like 4 times in an entire day, if we hopped on the earliest one which was at 2.40pm if i remember correctly, we would only be able to cover that one destination alone, since our bus back to Seoul was at 6.10pm. Travel time was about 40 minutes alone. So I guess when we thought about it, we figured out that our priority will be the Penis Park (NO JUDGING) and since that has greater frequency, afterwards we can come back and cover pavilion and museums and relax around a little bit. So that became our plan.
I guess that’s kind of the problem and charm of traveling, sometimes things don’t go as you plan but really it’s necessary to have the attitude to embrace and do what you can to continue making great memories. 🙂
So giving up the beautiful caves of Samcheok, we headed off to Penis land. Luckily we decided on that because it turned out that the bus ride was hugely underestimated on paper. 40 min turned out to be an hour, and it was when the bus traveled fast and didn’t stop at most stops. Haha.
Neverthleess we made it! It was bloody cold almost like winter again because we were near the sea.
Ignoring the theme of the park, it was beautiful in itself because of the flowers~
The first two sculptures we saw!
me with the horny one
me with the bench
The lone one
The view
The ones by the lake
Me with the one by the lake
Zenn with the one by the lake
random flower
The ones in a clique
The clique, featuring the one with the tongue + ahjusshis and ahjummas
The one with a baby double at the bottom
The one with another one at the top
me with my buddy
the second clique
the one with a dragon coiled around it
the one with penis earrings and penis lizards swarming it ok wtf
the one with two doubles as legs and the one with a baby in its mouth wat
the ones with removable parts
the sexy one with a female part
me with the removable one
the side one
the view pt. 2
the view pt.3 featuring the zodiac animals clique
me with the one with legs
view pt. 4
the villagers
Presumably the girl that started this park. Legend has it that a virgin girl once went out to sea with her fiance, but drowned while he was away. Fish didn’t come to the villagers so they decided to built these structures to calm her spirit and the fish returned.
attempt at artistic shot but lazy to do editing to make it look vintage and hipster
random stacked stones
“Only 20 and above can enter”
Basically it was kind of like a sex museum where there are figures of people having sex, but it’s just one couple. Not a big deal but still shall not post it here. If you want the real deal Jeju has a Love Land….. ahahaha.
I suppose this is the virgin gill on a penis boat?
The museum in the park
the penis see saw omg
the fishing village~
the cute ones
THE CANON LOL
THE CANON when it’s facing downwards yep
no i shall refrain from making inappropriate puns rn
the second largest one
me getting off
me riding it GAWD IM SORRY I SAID NO INAPPROPRIATE PUNS but i couldn’t help it
in all its erect glory
view pt.5
the ones you can sit on
view pt. 6
the one with another one wtf
the penisception one
the ones you can lie in
the see-saw, i’m riding on the other side gawd this one is so inappropriate sorry zenn lmao
the really long one…
the double
finally a real man
the view from the bottom
the beach
Okay that was it. Hahaha what a long picture-y post!! We took the bus back and decided to explore the pavilion area which was relatively near to the bus station.
Funky looking buildings!
Pretty road leading to the museums and pavilion area~
inside the funky globe im sorry for unglam shot zenn..
inside the funky globe
the cake building
We went inside and saw that we had to pay and it didn’t look interesting enough so we went back down lol. We decided to go to the Cave Exploration museum indeed which sounded more interesting.
The exploration museum~ just realized from this pic that it’s meant to look like a bat otl
It was actually pretty cool? It was made to mock real caves so it’s not like pictures of caves and shit but real cave mazes @.@ I really liked it actually like it made me feel better about missing the real cave and also it’s super fun to navigate through the narrow spaces. ALthough i think Zenn was a little claustrophobic haha.
Bonus slide wheeeeee
Yup that was it for the cave! We then moved towards the pavilion!
Mostly peaceful except the two bff ahjusshis and a solar panel accidentally captured on the bottom left lulz
Jukseoru Pavilion~
The inside! Sun was just setting so it was nice and warm.
Selfies!!!!! face looks chubby must be the ramen
We did some gross photoshoots pretending to be Yeonwoo from Moon Embraces The Sun because that’s my favorite period drama female lead with Jang Geum coming second. I just like them cuz they’re super smart and well-read and i like to think that if i was a girl from the period period (geddit) i would have loved to be a well-read sophisticated dignified court lady or queen too. Although in reality i’m pretty far from ‘dignified’ so maybe not HAHA.
And that was it for the day. We returned to the bus station early and saw more news of Sewol ;( Caught the bus back to Seoul and finally rested~
It was a nice visit to Samcheok! Although i would recommend that if you really want to explore everything including the caves and what not, two days would be better than one, primarily because of transport, unless you take one or two taxis. I’m not sure you could rent cars there lol but it’s possible to drive from Seoul to Samcheok. With the public transport, unless you arrive at the earliest time possible and spend less time on each destination, probably possible. Ours turned out to be really nice and relaxing because we gave up some destinations.
So yes that’s it for Samcheok! Wish you guys all the best if you want to travel out! 😀 And try to book for the cave in advance! We didn’t get the ocean railway thing because I’ve been on something like that and Zenn isn’t too keen, but that’s also a big thing in Samcheok!
Next post will be the summary of the week~~ ciao
darmawanders 