Marado Island Jeju

The Marado Island, Jeju is located in the southern part of Korea. It is an extremely small island, only 4.2 kilometers in length. The island is one of the popular tourist destinations in Jeju. The Marado Island, Jeju is of a very strange shape. While it is very short in length from the eastern direction to the western direction, the north to south width takes an oval shape.

Marado Island, Jeju presents a wide spectrum of marine plants and animals, which give both colour and life to the waters of the ocean. It has so many new species of marine organisms and plants that it was designated as the Marado Natural Monument Area, to protect and preserve the marine life of the island.

You can reach the Marado Island, Jeju by taking the one and a half hour boat journey. This service operates seven times in a day. You will be able to get a boat every hour. While traveling towards the Marado Island you will be able to get a very different view of Jeju, which will attract your attention immediately. This trip to the Marado Island, Jeju is meant for you if you want to travel in quite and beautiful place for sometime and enjoy the company of nature and the colorful marine life.

One of the very interesting aspects about the life of the people of the Marado Island, Jeju is that they have to collect and store the rain water, which is there only fresh water source. Their electric supply comes from the solar cells from where they generate the electric energy.

The Marado Island, Jeju saw the first human inhabitation in the year 1883, when three families arrived to live in this island. Since then life has changed in a vast way. It is believed that since they burnt the mountain forests for creating farm lands, frogs and snakes perished in the fire and they are not found even till now. The most famous occupation if the Marado Island, Jeju is sea fishing. Thus you will be treated to a delicious sea food dish when you travel to the Marado Island, Jeju. To enter the park area the adults have to pay 1,500 won, teenagers have to pay 800 won and the children have to pay 800 won.

For enjoying this beautiful island you have to pay a very small price. You can take Samyeongho ferry from Moseul Pohang, in which the adults have to pay 3200 won and the children have to pay only 1600 won to get inside the Marado Island, Jeju. You also have the option to take the Songak Ferry handled by the Yuyang Maritime Tourism. in this case the adults have to pay 15,000 won, teenagers have to pay 9,800 won and the children have to pay only 7,800 won.