Adventures in South Korea 2!: November 2011

Across the street from the Soingook Theme Park was a really special looking roadside attraction, the Mystery Maze Virtual Tour. We weren't sure if the building housed a mystery maze, or just a monitor that we would watch a virtual tour on, but either way we were intrigued!

Where does Yoda fit into this?

As it turns out, Mystery Maze Virtual Tour just means mirror maze with designated photo opportunities. Can't beat that!

We had originally taken individual pictures of each other at it, but the man running the Mystery Maze was watching via CCTV and was not pleased with that, so he braved the mirrors to take this shot for us.

Alice in Wonderland themed photo-ops on the way out

Trapped

The man in charge (who was a Herman Munster doppelganger) took charge of the camera again once we got out of the maze.

Going down

1, 2, 3...jump!

Unknown to us before arrival, Jeju is loaded with super lame tourist attractions. (Read: Unknown to us before arrival, Jeju is loaded with super cheesy/awesome photo opportunities.) One such goldmine of photo-ops was the Soingook Theme Park.*

* Most of the time, the Korean name is translated into English, so that it makes sense (usually) in either language. Maybe they thought 'soingook' was an English cognate, we're not sure, but for whatever reason they decided to make the English name the romanization of the Korean.

소인국 테마 파크

Soingook Theme Park

Translation according to our cell phone dictionary:

Land of Pigmies Theme Park

The miniature Statue of Liberty at the entrance to the parking lot. Granted, it's been a while since either of us have seen Lady Liberty, but she's looking a lot more feminine and sexy than we remember the actual one looking.

The Pearly Gates

No-neck pilots are the best pilots!

Thank you for flying Jeju Air...

Arrested Development Inspired

Oh no! Kidnapped!

Stockholm Syndrome

Leaning Tower

Tower Bridge

Yet another statue of liberty...

Snack Time

Twinsies!

Tweak, tweak

The Tian Tan Buddha we missed while in Hong Kong!

An oversized yogurt vending machine

Joinin' the girls at the Porch of the Caryatids

Napoleon & the Arc

Sexy Korean Palace Guard

USA! USA! USA!

The Jefferson Memorial? Really? Of all the buildings in Washington DC, you went with the White House and the Jefferson Memorial? Has any Korean ever heard of Thomas Jefferson?

A little on the cartoony side

"Go ninja, go ninja, go" - Vanilla Ice

Teotihuacán & the Eiffel Tower

The stone faces of Bayon from Cambodia or
Olmek from Legends of the Hidden Temple

♫♭ ♪ ♬ ♩♭ ♪

(Aladdin) A whole new world♩ ♪ ♫    ♬ ♭
♩ ♪ ♮ (Jasmine) Every turn a surprise
(Aladdin) With new horizons to pursue
(Jasmine) Every moment gets better♫ ♬    ♪ ♭
♫♩ ♪      ♬♭(Both) I'll chase them anywhere    ♬
♩ ♪ There's time to spare♫ ♬ ♭
Let me share this whole new world with you

♪ ♫ ♬ ♩♭