1 / 9Manjanggul lava tubePhoto: 강형원 / CC BY 4.0
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A lava tube over seven kilometres long, one of the longest in the world, with a walkable section lit and decked. Reopened on 30 May 2026 after a two-year repair; closed the first Wednesday of the month.
Manjanggul formed when the surface of a lava river cooled while the lava inside kept flowing out. It is one of the longest lava tubes in the world, with a lava column 7.6 metres high near the end of the open section. It closed in December 2023 for rockfall repairs and reopened on 30 May 2026.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
40 minutes each way is the honest figure for jeju port · taxi ~40 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 30 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
The Gangjeong women divers run a restaurant beside the southern terminal: noodle soup with the sea urchin they bring up themselves.
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4 hr 20 min for bothHexagonal columns of basalt thirty to forty metres high, where lava met the sea and cracked as it cooled.
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4 hr 30 min for bothA 22-metre fall at the end of a short gorge walk in Seogwipo, lit and open until 22:00.
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