{"id":36194,"date":"2024-12-13T20:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=36194"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:00:36","slug":"day-07-suncheon-suncheon-bay-national-garden-west-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2024\/12\/13\/day-07-suncheon-suncheon-bay-national-garden-west-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 07 @ Suncheon – Suncheon Bay National Garden – West Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/p>\n

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A bowl of instant noodles on a cold winter day is the bomb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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Flora landscaping that looks like a space rocket? Or so the boy quipped when I was writing this blog entry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wide footpaths and few other visitors about.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The pond is home to a number of swans – we counted at least six – and a flock of ducks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The kids were happy to lie here for a while and let their parents continue exploring!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From the far end of the pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Weeping willow trees lining the banks of the pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This was around 1PM, and the weather was still cloudy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A trio of beautiful fennec foxes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A prairie dog giving the same look that Peter does when we catch him with candy in his bedroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Engrish signboard elicited a couple of chuckles from us!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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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<\/p>\n

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