About an hour away from Seoul by air, Cheju-do (Cheju Island) is South Korea’s sole island province. It is the centre of north-east Asia, linking Japan, Russia and China.
One of the country’s most popular tourist destinations, it’s an island with an amazingly wide range of tourist attractions- golden beaches, densely forested mountains and a semi-tropical climate and topographically very different from the rest of South Korea. One of the most outstanding features of the island is a regular maze of tunnels, caves and pillars formed by the cooling of lava flows from ancient volcanoes. The island has more than 60 lava caves discovered till date making Cheju-do the best place in the world to visit these natural wonders.
Cheju-do is basically an island composed of extinct volcanoes formed by volcanic matter such as basalt and trachyte and layered with sedimentary rock. It still has a volcano- an extinct one, called Mt Hallasan, which, at 1950 m also doubles up as the island’s main mountain.
The main city on the island is Cheju City, the main base for trekking, sightseeing and exploring the rest of the island.
Cheju-do lying off the south coast of Korea is the warmest and wettest place in the entire country. The island is at its most beautiful in spring when the azalea blooms in a riot of delicate colours and the wooded areas display the most fascinating shades of green.
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