Continued from the previous post! We’d explored the East Garden for 3 hours, and needed to find some lunch. The park has a couple of cafes sprinkled throughout the area, but most seemed to be closed. What we found open was a small snack and food shop beside the Sky Cube station, and we filled our tummies with a combination of biscuits, cup instant noodles – there is a hot water dispenser in the shop for visitors to cook their instant noodles – and ice cream. Yep, junk food through and through – but the kids loved it!
A bowl of instant noodles on a cold winter day is the bomb.
The West Garden is about half the size of the East Garden, and the main centerpiece is a large pond that is called the Suncheonman Bay WWT Wetland. Pictures of the West Garden:
Flora landscaping that looks like a space rocket? Or so the boy quipped when I was writing this blog entry.Wide footpaths and few other visitors about.The pond is home to a number of swans – we counted at least six – and a flock of ducks.The kids were happy to lie here for a while and let their parents continue exploring!From the far end of the pond.Weeping willow trees lining the banks of the pond.This was around 1PM, and the weather was still cloudy.There is a small children’s zoo in the West Garden that hosts 12 mammals, 3 reptiles and 12 birds. Many of the zoo’s inhabitants were sleeping as it was a cold winter morning, but there were a few animals that were up and about. Like these always adorable meerkats, two of whom were enjoying the heat lamp.A trio of beautiful fennec foxes.A prairie dog giving the same look that Peter does when we catch him with candy in his bedroom.The Engrish signboard elicited a couple of chuckles from us!
We took about an hour to explore the West Garden, and by 1:45PM figured it was time we made our way to the wetland reserve. Continued in the next post!
