The first picking
Ask about itBoseong’s tea is picked by hand on terraced slopes. Walk the rows in the morning mist, then drink the year’s first tea in a farm tea room.
Tea fields, wetlands and islands · three to four nights
Tea, reed beds and islands
Boseong and the south coast 보성 · 남해안 · The south coast
The south coast is where Korea slows down. Boseong’s tea plantations run in curved rows down the hillsides, and the first leaves are picked in late April and May.
From there it is a short drive to the reed beds of Suncheon Bay, the walled folk town at Naganeupseong, and a coast of a few thousand islands. We take three or four nights and a car with a driver.
34° 46′ N, 127° 05′ E
Suncheon Bay
Ask about it
A national garden on the edge of town, and beyond it the reed beds, which turn gold in October and November. A boardwalk crosses them to a hill where you watch the tide come in at sunset.
Islands
Ask about it
Yeosu and Tongyeong sit on a coast of islands, many reached by short ferries. Oysters come from these waters in winter.
What we’d do
Private, with a guide where it helps. Times are a guide.
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Tea picking and a tasting at a family farm
Tea
Half day
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Suncheon Bay boardwalk at sunset
Walk
2.5h
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Naganeupseong, a walled town still lived in
Village
2h
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Songgwangsa, one of the three jewel temples
Temple
Half day
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Ferry and lunch on a small island off Tongyeong
Sea
Full day
A walledtown,stilllived in
Naganeupseong, Suncheon
34° 46′ N, 127° 05′ E
At the table
Food calendar- 01Nokcha (green tea), first flush
- 02Kkomak (cockles) from Beolgyo
- 03Gul (oysters) in winter, Tongyeong
- 04Hanjeongsik, the full Jeolla table
Get in touch
Mon–Fri, 09:00–18:00 UK time
The Executive Centre, Level 43, Three IFC, 10 Gukjegeumyung-ro, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07326, South Korea