A few Saturdays ago, a bunch of us headed out of Seoul on a trip to Gyeonggi-do. We visited Petite France! Petite France is a small village-museum inspired by France and its architecture, along with the book The Little Prince. They have small exhibits or photo spots with The Little Prince figurines and so on. The weather that day was was really good -- warm sun accompanied by cool breeze~
It was my first trip out of Seoul city and I really enjoyed the scenery en-route to Gapyeong train station. Since it was a weekend morning, the train was filled to the brim with elderly people going mountain hiking. After transferring to a shuttle bus (one-day ticket was ₩5,000 and it goes to over 10 attractions in the area) at Gapyeong station, and a few stops later... we arrived at Petite France! The entire journey from home took about 2 hours+ I think.
It was my first trip out of Seoul city and I really enjoyed the scenery en-route to Gapyeong train station. Since it was a weekend morning, the train was filled to the brim with elderly people going mountain hiking. After transferring to a shuttle bus (one-day ticket was ₩5,000 and it goes to over 10 attractions in the area) at Gapyeong station, and a few stops later... we arrived at Petite France! The entire journey from home took about 2 hours+ I think.
View from atop some stairs. I love the white rounded walls (?) along the stairs.
Pretty poppies!
Free puppet shows for visitors
We bought a tonkatsu ricebox for lunch.
Itsy bitsy tiny bunny which was only the size of my fist
Another baby bunny nomming on some vegetables
Colourful illustrations on the walls inside a building
Plates adorning the walls
Gorgeous views of a river and surrounding mountains
The one who inspired the creation of this place, The Little Prince.
Entrance tickets to Petite France was ₩8,000 or SGD10. It was a nice place to spend some time outside of Seoul especially if you're a Little Prince fan, but I didn't read the book nor watched the Korean dramas and shows which filmed in this location so it wasn't a particularly exciting place to me. Decided to give Nami Island a miss and to check out Gangchon Rail Park after this but sadly all Rail Park tickets for the day were already sold out by the time we reached :/
Since we were already at Gimyujeong station then, Kingsly and I decided to have lunch in the vicinity. Strangely enough, all the restaurants only sold Dakgalbi or stir fried chicken which is the city's specialty. The pictures below are post-processed using iphone apps so their colours are very saturated.
Our Dakgalbi - came with sesame leaves, sweet potatoes, chicken, rice cakes, kimchi, cabbage, leeks
Unique train station! The toilets and gantry entry were in this little building and we walked through an underground passage to the station platform beside it.
We did eventually manage to book tickets online for Gangchon Rail Park with 2 days of work and 5 people involved with the process, and visited on 11 May 2014. Will probably post about it another time!