When the weather starts turning warm, I take my kid down to the water most weekends. Folding chair for me, a tumbler of something cold, some pool toys and a couple of towels for her. That's the whole packing list. You'd think living on Jeju means going to the beach every week, right? Not really. People here don't go all that often. The sand gets everywhere and takes forever to deal with, and in summer the sand itself is too hot to sit on. So where do we go instead? In my case, somewhere less than a ten-minute drive from my house that every single person in Seogwipo knows about: Beophwan Maksuk . There's another spring-water spot over at Jaguri Coast too, but Beophwan is closer to us, so that's where we usually end up. Here's the strange part. I've almost never seen a foreign visitor there. Once in a while I'll spot one, and when I do, it's basically always someone married to a Korean. You've probably heard about Jeju's beaches and its waterfa...
Have you ever heard of Eongtto Falls? Tucked away in Seogwipo is a hidden waterfall that only shows up after serious rain. It barely makes it into the media, so it's really the kind of place only locals know about. Even here on Jeju, it's mostly people around Seogwipo and Jungmun who've actually seen it. That's partly because you can't just show up and expect it to be there, and partly because it's nothing like Cheonjiyeon or Jeongbang Falls, the famous ones every tour bus stops at. Not long after I moved to Seogwipo, my husband told me about a waterfall you can only see after heavy rain and took me to check it out. I still remember the shock of seeing it for the first time. There's a viewing platform right up close to the falls too, so you get to feel the full force of it instead of watching from far away. Even now, whenever it rains hard, Eongtto Falls is the first thing that comes to mind. A few years back, a friend of mine from Seoul came to stay with us...