From its summery island beaches to its statuesque Hallasan Mountain, verdant O'Sulloc green tea fields, and its iconic Sunrise Peak @ Seongsan IIchubang, Jeju Island is an icon in South Korea. Not forgetting the famous Jeju tangerine, a citrus fruit lauded across Jeju island at large. Hence, we decided to go to a local tangerine farm to find out. I couldn't quite remember the name of the tangerine farm but it took us quite some time to locate it. The farm was near a neighborhood where every household grew their own tangerine trees at their yard/garden. It was quite a sight as this was my first time seeing a tangerine tree.
Anyway, if you like oranges and the idea of trampling through the orchards in search of that perfect fruit, then you've got to come during the tangerine season (which is like from November onwards). Tangerine picking in my opinion is quite an inexpensive activity in Jeju. We googled this tangerine farm not far from the city where tourists and locals are permitted to pick oranges, eat everything that they can while in the farm and even take home 2kgs of fruit. Picking the tangerine is really quite an experience at just 6000 won.
I must say that picking these tangerines are fun and yet tiring at the same time. How we stretch, bent and squat at different angles when we caught sight of what we think are the perfect fruits. However, I must cautioned that these tangerines that were allowed for picking were not of top grades. Hence, we never expected it to taste good. Only those that were bought from the stores were of different grade and tasted sweet and zesty. There is also a backyard where the farm kept some rabbits and tourists get to feed them. These rabbits were fluffy cute.
After tangerine picking, we decided to visit a cute place - Ecoland which is also the only place in Jeju where you can ride a train. At Ecoland, the train ride took us through the Gotjawal forest that was formed on a bed of volcanic rocks. At different stations, tourist can alight to have a walk and admire the scenery or pretty blooms of tulips. There were 5 stations in total where the train will depart from the Main Station, stop by Eco Bridge Station, then Lake Side Station, followed by Picnic Garden Station, Lavender, Green Tea & Rose Garden Station before returning to the Main Station.
We alighted at the Picnic Garden Station and as suggested by its name, this is a perfect place for families to have picnic while children have fun at the playground.
We also went to the Lavender, Green Tea & Rose Garden to view the pretty flowers.
Ecoland offers us much delight. For once, I really enjoy the train ride.We definitely think that it is worth a visit while in Jeju.
Lastly, we visited this beautiful garden which I cannot remember the name as well. The garden was nicely decorated with a variety of flowers and has many pavilions for you to rest and glance over the entire landscape. Pretty sight! We also came upon a waterfall which was quite small in size but a pretty sight as well.
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The famous fertility rock statute |
And finally, it's time to say goodbye to Jeju! Before I penned off, do remember to try the famous fried chicken and the black BBQ pork at Jeju. These were really good!
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