Monday, August 10, 2009

Submarine Tour in Seogwipo


Still in Jeju island, Seogwipo is a port city located in the southern part and is the second largest city on the island after Jeju city. It's much smaller compared to Jeju city but you would be amazed by the view from both above and under the sea.


Seogwipo port

There are two options to enjoy the underwater scenery, either scuba diving or submarine. Submarine is the easy way and who would go for scuba diving in winter time? We went down to the very end of the harbour to find the submarie tour desk in a building shared with the cruise tour. The 'feeder boat' took us to the submarine docking are, where the crews escorted the passenger one by one to the submarine boat, given times to take picture nobody missed this chance to pose with the submarine and surrounding rocks. Stepping the ladder all the way down the bowel people settle down in small benches facing the glass windows on each side of the boat. The excitement begun when we saw a diver swimming through followed by a huge group of fish. It really was a unique experience enjoying the beauty of coral reef and colourful underwater life. With the minimum lighting we couldn't take good shots but it really was an enjoyable trip we would love to go back.


The beautiful sea of Seogwipo




The underwater view from Submarine


2 comments:

  1. ha,with your description I find Submarine is a better choice to see the underwater:) I have experienced the scuba diving in sanya Yalong Bay China. It's not better than expected. Even my right foot was stabbed by sea urchin......

    ReplyDelete
  2. Agree! I'd rather go for Submarine than scuba diving since I am not a good swimmer :)

    ReplyDelete