Sunday, April 20, 2008

Birthday Celebration At Osan Park

The Place: Osan Park as the name suggest is located in Osan.Its a huge park with lot of trees and a big lake.There a nice MAZE out there. We saw one similar maze during our visit to Jejudo. Osan is about 10km from Suwon.The official website for the Osan Park is as below. The site is in Korean till date.Hopefully they will add English interface soon.
Osan Park

We went there on 16th April to celebrate my birthday . The park is beautifully made Its an arboretum. There are many varieties of plants bushes and trees all around. Since its April so the leaves are yet to come but the flowers are in full bloom.

At home ready to begin the celebration.

It took around 30 min from our house in Suwon to reach the park.

The azelia blossoms all around the park.

Small cute over bridges .

I just want to fly out of joy.

The view of apartments far away from the park.




The ecological garden.
Cherry and peach blossoms can be seen everywhere.


The exhibition Hall.

Method to find the age of the tree by counting the rings.


The aquarium.



A small pond outside.


The indoor tropical Garden.


The Topiary garden.


The maze inside the garden.
We spent around three hours inside the garden . By then it was almost 6 pm .We went to a pork barbecue restaurant to have some yummy Korean food.

Birthday celebration ends with yummy Korean food.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Garden Of Morning Calm

About the Garden of Morning Calm:Achim Goyo (Morning Calm)” comes from the Indian poet Tagore, praising Korea as the country of the morning calm.

For detailed information please check Visit Korea Website.It has all the required detail of how to reach there.

The Garden of Morning Calm
Home Page of the Morning Calm Garden

Many of our friend together decided to visit the famous Garden of Morning calm.We hired a 9 seater Van so that we can all be together and have fun in the vehicle.

Inside the VAN


There was quite a lot of traffic and we reached at around lunch time.After reaching there we had lunch together in the garden.

Lunch time at morning calm garden.


yummy platter.

Usually The garden is dark green every where but since we reached there in mid April, leaves were still not to their full size and many flowers were yet to bloom.



The garden is quite big


Kunjal and Tanvi playing in the green grass.


The cherry blossom trees were yet to blossom.


Beautiful flowers of many varieties.


Kunjal tempted by the tulips.

The Garden looked so colourful due to the variety of flowers.

There was a Indoor Orchid Garden with many varieties of orchids.


Inside the indoor orchid garden.

On the way back we stopped by a cottage beside a stream to have some fun and food.


The kids taking rest.


We made Indian Traditional tea and Pakoda there and enjoyed the moments together with friends.It was kind of drizzling outside.