Jeju Manjanggul Lava Tube
Manjanggul Lava Tube, a massive cave carved out by lava
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Planning the visit
Jeju Manjanggul Lava Tube is stop 2 of 8 on the Mythic Landscape Route.
The stamp is not at the site itself but at the Manjanggul Cave ticket office, tourist information center, so check the opening hours of that building rather than the site.
Admission is charged: Adults KRW 4,000 / Teenagers, Soldiers KRW 2,000 / Children KRW 2,000.
The two closest stamp points are Geomunoreum Volcanic Cone in Seonheul-ri, 11 km away, and Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone Natural Reserve at 18 km. All three fit into one day.
Details
- Address
- 182, Manjanggul-gil, Gujwa-eup, Jeju-si, Jeju-do
- Stamp zone
- Manjanggul Cave ticket office, tourist information center
- Hours
- 09:00 - 18:00 (Closed on the first Wednesday of every month)
- Admission
- Adults KRW 4,000 / Teenagers, Soldiers KRW 2,000 / Children KRW 2,000
- Phone
- 064-710-7903
- Coordinates
- 33.53909, 126.77404
What the campaign says about it
Manjanggul is one of the world's largest lava caves in Jeju-do. Manjanggul Lava Tube, which used to be called the “Manjaengi Geomeorigul,” meaning “very deep” in the Jeju dialect, is estimated to have been created 100,000 to 300,000 years ago. But it was not discovered until recently in 1958. Manjanggul Lava Tube is roughly 7.4km long, and the main channel is 18m wide and 23m tall. Currently, Manjanggul’s second entrance is open to the general public, which runs only 1km into the Cave itself. There is also a 7.6m-tall lava column inside the Cave strewn with spectacular lava stalagmites, lava stalactites, lava flows, and lava boulders. A lava column is created when an icicle-shaped stalactite growing from the ceiling meets a stalagmite growing from the floor. The lava column inside Manjanggul Lava Tube is one of the largest in the world. Among countless lava caves around the world, Manjanggul Lava Tube is a very rare case in which the internal shape and topography have been well preserved. It is also the largest habitat for bats in Korea. Thousands of Jeju Greater horseshoe bats and Common bent-wing bats, both of which are the most popular species of bats in Korea, live inside the Cave. But chances of meeting any bats in the section open to the general public are very slim.
Quoted from the Visit Korean Heritage Campaign.
Getting there
(From Jeju International Airport) Take bus no. 101 at Jeju International Airport bust stop #2 (to Iljudong-ro, 516 Road) → Get off at Gimnyeong Transfer Bus Stop (Gimnyeong Elementary School), then transfer to bus no. 201 → Get off at Manjanggul Lava Tube Entrance bus stop, then transfer to bus no. 711-1 or 711-2 → Get off at Manjanggul Lava Tube → Walk for 4 minutes (From the Port of Jeju) Take bus no. 415 (to Halla Arboretum) at the Jeju Passenger Ferry Terminal bus stop → Get off at Donggwangyang bus stop, then transfer to bus no. 201 → Get off at Gimnyeong-ri bus stop, then transfer to bus no. 711-2 → Get off at Manjanggul Lava Tube → Walk for 3 minutes
Photographs
Photographs supplied by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation.