Green tea at Boseong

For our second long weekend in Korea we ventured to the far south, to Jeollanam-do province. We were keen for time away from the big smoke and to see what the south coast had to offer. With the size of Korea and the excellent rail system, we traversed the country north to south in 5.5 hours and escaped, what we later found out to be, torrential rainfall in Seoul (245mm/day).

One of the main reasons for choosing our destination was the green tea fields of Boseong. We took a day-trip here from our guesthouse in Yeosu and, with hundreds of Korean tourists, wandered through the lush green fields of tea. The fields were a magnificent sight, perched on hills shrouded by low lying cloud and surrounded by pine trees.

Korean's are addicted to all that is green tea. While in Boseong we ate pork that had been raised on green tea, and since being in Korea we have spotted green tea- muffins, chocolate, bread, latte... and my absolute favourite, pizza bases! And that doesn't even touch on all the beauty products that are based on this green wonder substance.

Here are some of our snaps from our time in Boseong.

Rolling hills of tea amongst pine forest

Someone always offers to take our picture!

Tea, tea and more tea.. people, people and more people!

Lush and green, so different to an Aussie summer