A Week On The Olle: A Video From Jeju's Island Walking Trail

A Week On The Olle
A Video From Jeju’s Island Walking Trail

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Jeju Olle Video

‘Mama Olle’ returned from walking the Camino de Santiago inspired to create something similar on her home island of Jeju, South Korea. In September 2007 the first Olle Gil was founded, and today it’s possible to walk the entire circumference of Jeju, plus a few outlying islands, on an incredible 422 km trail.

We’d never heard of the Olle Trail until our first visit to the island in 2016. That trip was dedicated to scuba diving, but our curiosity was well and truly piqued and we returned in October 2017 to spend a week walking and free camping along the trails.

We truly loved it.

We’ve done a couple of multi-day treks in Nepal previously, but this was our first experience of walking, camping, and carrying all of our own supplies. A bit of a trial run for adventures to come you might say, testing out our new gear and documenting it all on video.

We’ll be writing more about our week on the Olle, but for now we’ll leave you to experience it for yourself with our Jeju Olle video.

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Have you walked any long-distance trails before?
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Let us know about your experiences in the comments below!

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Finn

Awesome site! So much useful info, thanks! I’m thinking about walking this – however, I’m not sure that I’ll have the required month or so to do the full thru hike; what are your thoughts on just 6 or 7 days worth of routes, compared to the full circuit? You obviously did both, so would you recommend just picking and choosing a handful of sections?

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Going the Whole Hogg

Thanks Finn! If you don’t have time to do them all, then it’s definitely still worth it just to pick a few. If you want to walk consecutive routes, our recommendation would be Routes 6 – 10, plus we like 10-1 on Gapa-do too. If you want to see different sides of the island though, you might want to pick a couple from different coasts. Some of our favourites are Routes 21 & 1 (plus 1-1 if you want to go to Udo island), then Routes 6 & 7, Routes 9 & 10, and the beaches on Routes 14 &… Read more »

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