Garden of Morning Calm
Friday, July 14, 2017
The Garden of Morning Calm, in Gapyeong, South Korea, was by far the most beautiful thing we have seen since coming here earlier this month. It is the oldest private garden in Korea, and was developed by a Korean professor who, while on a teaching exchange to America, came up with the idea of the garden to share the beauty of Korea, which is often called "The land of the morning calm". It is over 30,000 meters (about 18 miles if I can tackle the conversion) and houses over 5000 plants.
I can't even begin to imagine how beautiful this must be during cherry blossom time in the spring, or the fall foliage in October. In the winter, they even cover this place in amazing lights, which you should totally google to see!
One of the things we are realizing here is that traffic takes forever to go anywhere. We decided to drive to the Garden, which is about 40 miles away. Even with weekend travel which you would think would be lighter, it took us over two hours to get there. It was a beautiful drive, however, getting into the more mountainous area of Korea.
Once we arrived we parked and entered the gardens. I don't know what I expected, but it was so gorgeous. It was cloudy and a bit foggy, but we had all packed our umbrellas so we were just fine (more on that later!) Enjoy the pictures - sorry they are iPhone pictures that don't do its beauty justice, but we didn't bring a better camera :)
One we came in we entered a little atrium with tons of hydrangea. They have a spring hydrangea festival, so I am guessing these were in full bloom a month or two ago.
I can't even begin to imagine how beautiful this must be during cherry blossom time in the spring, or the fall foliage in October. In the winter, they even cover this place in amazing lights, which you should totally google to see!
One of the things we are realizing here is that traffic takes forever to go anywhere. We decided to drive to the Garden, which is about 40 miles away. Even with weekend travel which you would think would be lighter, it took us over two hours to get there. It was a beautiful drive, however, getting into the more mountainous area of Korea.
Once we arrived we parked and entered the gardens. I don't know what I expected, but it was so gorgeous. It was cloudy and a bit foggy, but we had all packed our umbrellas so we were just fine (more on that later!) Enjoy the pictures - sorry they are iPhone pictures that don't do its beauty justice, but we didn't bring a better camera :)
One we came in we entered a little atrium with tons of hydrangea. They have a spring hydrangea festival, so I am guessing these were in full bloom a month or two ago.
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| Some of these bonsai were 300 years old! |
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| Bonzai garden |
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| English garden |
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| people create pagodas out of rocks in this creek. Hudson had fun creating a few! |
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| We stopped at the tea house during a downpour. Around 20 people were crowded in the pagoda trying to escape the storm! |
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| If you look really closely you can see a frog. or maybe a toad, I have no idea. Actually I think it was a toad. |
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