We had a lovely tour with Lydia, exploring Jeju all day, visiting and exploring different spots! She was so friendly and engaging with us, and her English skills were great, so we had trouble with communication at all. We shared stories and thoughts during the downtime of the tour when she was driving us between locations, so there were no awkward moments at all during the entire tour. She even added a few personalized points of interests customized to what we enjoyed, so that was another plus! We really appreciated her flexibility, and giving us the lead on any ideas we had, or specific places to visit. We had no idea how big Jeju was, so we definitely will need to return for another visit. And when we do, Lydia already knows we will be requesting for her again! She made our visit to Jeju memorable and we had a ton of fun! We highly recommend her for anyone interested in touring Jeju!
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Private tour in Jeju Lydia P
Full Day Highlights Tour of Jeju Island to South & West 2
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If you don't visit Jeju Island, you can't say to your friends that you've been to South Korea! Jeju is the best jewel of nature Korea has to offer with seasonally different faces and culturally unique images. I'm Lydia, newly registered tour guide here in 2017 and a licensed tour guide for customized private tour with 8 year-professional experiences, living on this beautiful volcanic island. Being a "people person" and having wide curiosity about different cultures and people with various backgrounds, I'm very passioned about my wonderful job (like a formfitting suit just for me!). I've a solid background in guiding different types of tours, ranging from Eco tour, Geo tour, art and architecture tour, UNESCO heritage tour and culinary tour to mention some. Having traveled many countries as a tourist, I realized that Jeju island is a magical place and offers different types of nature in a place as small as an island: beaches with turquoise blue water and blackish lava rocks and dense forests in volcanic cones, waterfalls, lava tubes, snow-capped mountains. . . For me, Jeju is the true place of heart-beating discoveries in the middle of nature, culture and people on a daily basis. Make you as your tour guide and let's discover together what Jeju Island has to offer, its unique geological features, cultural and natural assets, which are considered World Heritage by UNESCO. All the tours can be tailor-made according to your interests based on my recommendation. All you need to do is let me know what you feel like doing and seeing and I will create an itinerary JUST FOR YOU! Anyone with any religious, cultural or regional background is welcome! I fully understand that food and coffee time are two important factors to make your trip complete. Would you leave that on me? Additionally I put some recommended and seasonally available activities and experiences you may do, which are not listed on my 'pulished tours', as you can pick that on your own. (This option might take you some time that could cause you to skip one or two listed destinations from 'published tours' and needs you to pay the related fee) These are introduced to help you make your own customized tour. # Basic Natural Sites including UNESCO sites - Seongsan Sunrise Peak Tuff cone - Manjang Lava Tube - Dragon Head Coast - Suwolbong Tuff ring - Cheonjiyeon Waterfall - Cheonjeyeon Waterfall - Jeongbang Waterfall - Jeolmul Forest - Bizarim Forest - Several other volcanic forests - Saebeol Oreum - Yongnooni Oreum - Sangumburi Crater - Ttarabi Oreum - Abu Oreum etc. (personally or seasonally can be picked) - Other recommended or wished natural sites # Cultural Sites - Jeju National Museum - Jeju Natural History Museum - Jeju Stone Culture Park - Seongeup Folk Village - Jeju Folk Village (over 1 hour- walking needed) - Green Tea Farm - Dragon Head Pond & Rock - And so on. . . . # Arts and Architecture Special - Kim Yong Gap Gallery - Jeju Contemporary Art Gallery - Gidang Gallery - Itami June Gallery - Lee Joong Seop Gallery - Other monumental Architectures or Galleries # Activities seasonally available : - Horse-back riding (any season) - Go cart (any season) - Kayaking or Yachting or Power boating (Spring, Summer and Automne) - Scuba diving or Windsurfing (Summer only) - Tangerine Picking (Winter only) # Touristic museums for fun - Ice Museum : Ice sculptures & 3 dimensional optical illusion paintings) - Teddy bear safari : stuffed teddy bears in a variety of fancy settings - Automobile museum : world classic cars and automobiles' history - Glass castle : glass artworks and glass-made displays - Alive museum : several sections with optically illudded paintings & displays - Seashell museum : all possible types of seashells from all over the world - Other recommended or wished places - Tour Guide Certificate issued by KTO (Korea Tourism Organization) - Interpreter Certificate issued by NAI (National Association for Interpretation) - Jeju Eco-Culture Interpreter certificated by Jeju Provincial Government - Nature-Environment Interpreter certificated by Ministry of Environment - Global Geoparks Network Guide of Jeju designated by Jeju UNESCO World Heritage Center
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Overview of your Jeju tour
This is one-day highlight for tourists who have limited stay on Jeju including cruise passengers. This tour basically lasts for 8 hours, covering the natural highlights in the southwestern parts of Jeju. The destinations are mostly UNESCO designated sites, but if you want, any places you'd like to visit could be added or replaced with sample ones. The western part of Jeju is most populated area with many natural and cultural assets as well as great local restaurants with a variety of unique menus like seafood or pork barbeque etc. In the west, you can encounter wonderful nature like wide spreading field filled with local vegetables surrounded by Jeju's typical fences made of volcanic rocks, turquoise green ocean and gentle sloped small volcanoes. Don't miss this chance to explore and be faced with a different type of locality of Korea.
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There are occasions in our lives when we meet another soul along life's journey and that connection is immediate, trusting and sparkling with joy. Those people become our friends and loved ones. Well, sometimes on rare occasions we can also connect with a tour guide in a foreign land who becomes that very special person, and for the hours or days where we share her culture and history, we genuinely feel she's our best friend. Lydia Park, our guide in Jeju, South Korea, was that kind of person, enthusiastically escorting our private shore excursion for four. As she drove us from destination to destination, Lydia filled the time with interesting conversation about where she was taking us, but also about her life as a Jeju resident and full time mom. If you plan to visit the port of Seogwipo, try to book Lydia as your guide. You will forever remember your time with her.
Lydia was an amazing tour guide. She cared about what we wanted from the day. She answered our questions. She made restaurant suggestions that were very good! She was knowledgeable in her information!!!
We couldn't have asked for a more perfect tour guide.Lydia was so accommodating and organized our day according to our wants. We had a wonderful day, we asked Lydia for a taste of what the South West coat was like, especially the beach and waterfalls as this was just a flying visit for us. The lunch was wonderful, a true taste of Korea, off the beaten track which even kept the vegetarian happy. Highlights of the tour, seeing the Haenyo divers, stunning coastline and rock formations, and of course the company of our amazing guide Lydia, who we will miss greatly. We've promised to book another tour when we return, which we are planning on doing.
A wonderful tour with one of the nicest, funniest and friendliest tour guide I have ever met. Thank you so much, Lydia đ
Lydia is an incredible guide who showed us the most beautiful highlights of Jeju! Her enthusiasm is infectious, and her warm personality made our day together even more pleasant. Highly recommend.
Your Jeju tour itinerary
One day highlight for Southwest of Jeju # Schedules can be customized up to your interests # Schedules can be rearranged depending on weather conditions and where you stay West of Jeju - Driving along the west coast road : drop by some fantastic coastal sites - Hyeopjae beach and typical village with endemic cacti - Lunch : recommended or wished menu - Suwolbong UNESCO site or O'sulloc green tea farm Or - Mt. Sanbang and Dragon Head Tuff ring UNESCO site (weather permitting) South of Jeju - Jusanggeoli, a columnar jointed lava cliff : UNESCO site - Cheonjeyeon waterfall - Back to hotel
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Type: Private Transportation / Category: Minivan
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