Our light dinner in Angelinus Coffee after we arrived in Yeoju.
MIL retirement house
Yeoju is nothing but rice field
Beautiful summer flowers planted outside the house
She has a neighbor
Managed to complete the bank paperwork by afternoon and we drove to Herb Nara 香草国度 in Pyeongchang 平昌郡. Herb Nara 香草国度 is Taiwan lavender cottage 薰衣草森林 of Korea. In fact, Herb Nara started it first, this place started small 20 years ago, slowly they built their garden empire on this mountain.
Herb Nara's book
Like lavender cottage, i recommend to stay in their pension to enjoy 2d1n in this fairytale land. If you choose not to stay in their pension, entrance ticket is around 10 SGD per pax.
Entrance to our pension. Pension in Korea refers to resort or chalet.
Reservation system in Korea is a little tricky for foreigner, we asked our friend for help to transfer the deposit over.
Our Borage cottage house
This place is big enough to fit a family, the Korean are okay to sleep on tatami and all pension are equipped with tatami.
Kitchen equipment with rice cooker, water heater and all the BBQ utensils you need.
Outdoor BBQ pit
On the way down, we pass by the backdoor of their restaurant.
Drying Miso
Entrance to the garden from Pension. This place is crowded on weekend, i recommend to visit during weekdays, the whole garden will be yours.
A performance hall. They host different event on different month, in the month of May, there are pianist performance on weekend.
Comic gallery
Inho's primary school textbook
Dooli, a cartoon Inho watched while he is young, sometime he sang Dooli song to me.
Erotic book in the past. Check out the cover, so erotic hor.
Herb bakery
Herb shop
Purchased rosehip afternoon tea and apple puree Jam.
Cooking with herb
Living with herb
Wearing herb
Dinner in Herb restaurant
Herb bibimbab and doenjang jigae for dinner
Had a good rest, even the husband said the money is well spent for the cottage house, felt so fresh the next morning.
Exploring the rest of the garden, this place is massive.
This is a zoological greenhouse, all the plants inside are named after animals.
Inho touching the cat tail plant
Tiger Begonia
Deer horn looking staghorn fern
Black tulip
Crabapple tree
Breakfast from herb bakery
A hot cup of hazenut coffee in the cooling morning is a bless.
Art and craft workshop, they have all sort of DIY classes from making soap to candles to planting a herb to stitching etc
Soap bar making
Look at the dry flowers ceiling
Plant a herb home
Another green house coffee cafe
Spot the boy!
Animals are not allowed in the compound except the owner's cat.
My favorite spot in Herb Nara.
Loved being a flower fairies in this beautiful garden.
2 comments:
Beautiful photo's..thank you for the info.
Beautiful photo's..thank you for the info.
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