Green Tea! 녹차!

I can say for sure that this was one of my favorite places I’ve been to in South Korea. Rebecca and I had wanted to go to see the green tea plantations all year long, and we’ve just been waiting for it to be summer so we could go. Finally, we decided it was time to head down south. We took a bus to the third biggest city in SK, Gwangju, on Friday night after work. The next morning we took another bus for an hour through the countryside and rice paddies to a really small town called Boseong. Upon arrival we checked into our lovely roman themed tourist hotel and headed to the green tea plantation.

We walked around the tea plantation for hours, it was so cool! There were rows and rows of green tea plants terraced into mountains, which rolled along the Korean landscape. We had some old man do a photoshoot for us and just enjoyed the scenery all morning. After walking around for a long while we had lunch and enjoyed some green tea frozen yogurt and ice cream. We explored the city a little more after lunch, and just enjoyed being out of the bustling city for once. We walked around the town and explored some rice paddies. The town of Boseong was tiny and when we were walking home at night from the bar, it felt like real summer! I’m not used to summer in the city, so hearing the frogs and crickets was awesome. It was a really relaxing and nice weekend in the country.