Oedo Island & POW Tour

It’s a public holiday over here today and one of the companies that helps with relocations, Coens, has organised a day trip around the Geoje. Our first stop was Oedo (pronounced way-dough) Island, which is a 30 minute ferry ride away. The ferry trip in itself is spectacular as it meanders through the cliffs and offers some amazing views. The captain also has a running commentary pointing out all the sights along the way; it’s unfortunate but understandable that it’s all in Korean as I would’ve loved to have known what he was saying. I think the tour would be worthwhile doing again once we know the language. 

We arrive at Oedo and have one hour to explore the island and meet back at the dock to get the ferry again. Oedo is quite literally breathtaking. Not only because it’s steep to walk up and quite hard work but also because of the gorgeous gardens and beautiful views. The island is fairly big and with only one hour to see it we had to walk fast and stop for photos very quickly. By the end of it I was exhausted and looking forward to the seated 30 minute ferry ride home but it was well worth it. The gardens were so beautifully manicured and put together and I loved the statues. 

My favourite painting is the Birth of Venus by Botticelli and they had a statue of her in the main garden. It was beautiful. I could’ve spent hours relaxing in those gardens. They had an ice cream vendor on site and I would’ve loved to have bought a cone and sat myself down on the grass and enjoyed the view and the sunshine. Next time we go to Oedo we’re going to spend the whole day J

After our ferry ride back to Geoje we take a short bus trip to pebble beach. The beach itself was very ordinary; I think Adrian and I are spoilt and snobbish when it comes to beaches as not many can compare the beautiful ones we take for granted back home. We actually didn’t even take any photos there. Our final stop was the Geoje POW camp. It was good and I’m glad we ticked it off the list but as everything was in Korean again we didn’t really know what we were looking at.

It was interesting and sad all the same.

I think it’s safe to say that visiting Oedo was our favourite part of the tour 

and we’ll definitely be going there again.

Going to put my feet up now J

 

Write soon xx