Suncheonman Bay Wetland Reserve (순천만습지)

The Admission ticket to Suncheon Bay Garden includes Suncheon Bay Wetland. The city tour bus can also drive you to the Wetland Reserve, but we missed the bus and didn't want to wait for the next one.

So we opted for another option which was riding this cute Sky Cube.

Sky Cube Railcar KRW 8,000 per person

 

The railcar passing by the Windmill, the Tank...

 

and a vast reed field...

 However, you'll still need to walk a long way from the railcar station to the entrance.

  It was such a windy day...my hair was totally a mess!

 

 Walking on the wooden boardwalk against the wind!

The strong wind blew relentlessly such that the whole field of reeds started to sway and dance...

 Suncheonman Bay's reed field covers a total area of approximately 495,867㎡.

The reed field starts from the confluence of Dongcheon and Isacheon Streams, 

and stretches along both sides of the stream for approximately 3 kilometres

until it reaches the main reed colony at Suncheonman Bay.

 The reed fields in Suncheonman Bay are thickly covered with tall reeds.

It is the biggest colony of reeds in Korea. Let's camouflage here...

 

  

  Suncheonman Bay Wetland Reserve is a natural habitat for birds of over 140 species, 

including migratory and endangered bird species such as the hooded crane, 

white-naped crane, Oriental White Stork, black-faced spoonbill, 

Eurasian Oystercatcher as well as birds designated as natural treasures.

You can see the Suncheon City Tour bus decorated with big hooded crane, 

a crab and mudskippers which are habitat in this Wetland.

Too bad that we didn't have enough time to go to the wetland, and had to take a

taxi because we're rushing to catch KTX back to Seoul. 

That's also ended our Suncheon City tour during which we had only managed to visit 2 places. It's sad that we missed out on so many places. We should have spent at least 2 days in Suncheon. Sigh~!

 

 Suncheonman Bay Wetland Reserve (순천만습지)

Add: 513-25, Suncheonman-gil, Suncheon-si, Jeollanam-do 

전라남도 순천시 순천만길 513-25 (대대동)

Suncheonman Bay National Garden (순천만국가정원)

Suncheon, the ecological capital of Korea offers many eco-tourism attractions where people can experience and learn about a natural ecosystem.

We didn't follow our initial plan to go to Naganeupseong Folk Village (낙안읍성민속마을) as it was too rushed. Instead, we took the Suncheon City Tour Downtown Circular Course.

After exploring the Suncheon Open Film Set, we took the bus to the must-visit Suncheonman Bay National Garden.

 

로컬 제육쌈밥 (Local Pork wraps) KRW 20,000 for 2 people.

We reached there at around 13:30 and found 여미락 restaurant near the entrance of the garden. We went in to have our lunch, just in case we aren't able to find other restaurants inside the garden.

 Suncheonman Bay National Garden (순천만국가정원)

Entrance Fee: KRW 8,000 / person 

OMG!!! So many many tulip flowers, so vibrant and pretty!!!

It was no wonder that there were so many people visiting this massive 1.1million ㎡ garden. 

There were a lot of locals joining the city tour to come and admire the beauty of Spring.

 Suncheonman Bay National Garden was built in the Suncheon Dosa-dong 

area solely to protect the Suncheonman Bay Wetland Reserve. 

 

79,000 trees of 505 different species and 150,000 flowers of 113 

different species are growing healthily and beautifully in this garden.

 The garden comprises of an arboretum, a wetland centre, a seeds bank, themed gardens...

 and a world garden zone that displays the gardening cultures of different 

countries including England, Italy, and the Netherlands.

 

 This Dutch garden had a windmill surrounded by variegated tulips which caught my eye.

 

 The second-place that drew my attention was this 30,000㎡ field of yellow canola flowers!

 Canola was originally a trademark name of the Rapeseed Association of Canada, 

"Canola" is a condensation of "Can" from Canada and "OLA" an abbreviation of "Oil, low acid"

I submitted these two photos for the 47th KTO Smartphone Photography Contest

winning 2nd place for this dreamy "사랑" (Love) Canola field photo.

There was a carnival with a small band going around too...

After strolling Lake Garden and World Garden we walked to 

the Bridge of Dreams to go to Suncheon Bay Wetland Reserve...

 Suncheonman Bay National Garden (순천만국가정원)

47, Gukgajeongwon1ho-gil, Suncheon-si, Jeollanam-do 

전라남도 순천시 국가정원1호길 47 (오천동)

[Suncheon] - Suncheon Open Film Set (순천 드라마촬영장)

Circuit Breaker oh Circuit Breaker~! I've been working from home for 1 week and will to do so for another 3 weeks until CB is lifted. You might think it must be more relaxing WFH, but the fact is it's not because I've lots of new things to do, follow up and redo because they have been postponed or to wait for instruction to proceed. The timing was just so wrong! It's so exhausting to start work from 8 o'clock in the morning and end around 7 to 9 o'clock at night. Typically, I can still enjoy my luxurious 1-hour lunch break, but tragically even that has been stolen and I must wolf down my food in a hurry to return to work.

Today is Saturday, so got time to scroll down my Facebook... memories from 2 years back popped up in my timeline. I really miss those places and the beautiful cherry blossoms in Korea. But at the same time, I feel guilty for not having completed my blogging even after 2 years. 

 

[Tongyeong] - Jangsado Sea Park (장사도 해상공원)

 

[Tongyeong] - Yi Sun Sin Park (이순신공원)

 

 The Two Faces of Yeojwacheon Stream (여좌천-벚꽃명소)

It means that I only blogged about the first 5 days out of my 9 days in Korea and 4 days in China. Despite being incredibly late, let me continue with Day-6 in Suncheon.

Took KTX from Tongyeong to Suncheon and immediately went to KTO office

to deposit our luggage as we will go to Seoul after joining Suncheon City Tour Day Trip.

Our 1st stop was Suncheon Open Film Set (순천 드라마촬영장).

Suncheon Open Film Set is the largest film set in Korea.

It's open to the public to explore with a small admission fee.

  These K-dramas: Love Rain; Baker King Kim Tak Goo; 

 

and movies that I watched: A Werewolf Boy and Gangnam Blues

were also filmed here. 

 

You might be wondering if the films were really taken in the same place

because the settings look like they are from different eras. 

This huge filming location made up of three villages consists of over

200 various buildings, houses, stores and streets. 

Together, they represent the different time periods from 1960 to 1980 of Korean life.

 You can take photos in many photo zones where some dramas and movies were filmed.

But I took too many photos and now I don't know how to select them for this post.

 

Some of the visitors rent high school uniforms at the shop next to the classroom.

The classroom setting is really nice for photoshoots...

We found a tavern selling some food like gimbap, kimchi pancake, 

sundae, snacks, tidbits and drinks.

 

We ordered these odeng fish cakes and drinks

and rested our aching legs in the tavern before continuing on our journey...

 

 These are just a small fraction of the overwhelming number of photos in my collection.

Suncheon Drama Film Set (순천드라마촬영장)  

Add: 24, Biryegol-gil, Suncheon-si, Jeollanam-do (Jorye-dong) 

전라남도 순천시 비례골길 24 (조례동)