A 1-night, 2-day fall travel course in Pocheon where you can enjoy the scent of nature

Enjoy the scent of autumn nature in Pocheon, the city of forests and water! Starting from the National Arboretum to the fragrant Herb Island! Let’s go on a journey that will move your heart! At the National Arboretum, you can see maple trees colored like watercolors, and at the mountain temple, you can feel the elegance and fragrant atmosphere where you can learn the aesthetics of slowness. Let’s feel the leisurely atmosphere.

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Dongison Mandu (dumpling restaurant)

Homemade dumpling hotpot is made by mixing flour, tofu, kimchi, mushrooms, etc. in broth made by boiling beef, and the soup has a chewy taste and mushrooms, making the soup taste cool and refreshing. Steamed dumplings are filled with cabbage and mushrooms and have long been a favorite delicacy among gourmets.

Korea National Arboretum

The specialized exhibition garden consists of an ornamental tree garden with trees of high ornamental value, an arboretum with trees with beautiful flowers on display, a wetland botanical garden with plants growing in wetlands, as well as an aquatic botanical garden, a medicinal plant garden, a food and medicinal plant garden, a shrub garden, a vine garden, a hands-on botanical garden, and a warm-zone plant greenhouse.

Pocheon Intangible Cultural Heritage Training Center

The Pocheon Intangible Cultural Heritage Training Center is a place where Pocheon's intangible cultural heritage transmission facilities are gathered. It is a complex cultural space where cultural heritage education and experience can be conducted as well as exhibition facilities for items used by our ancestors, such as tatami mats, bats, braziers, majdure, chaeban, and gilma. The second floor has a small practice room and a large practice room where you can experience Pocheon cultural assets, and an educational program is provided to learn 'Menari', an intangible cultural asset of Gyeonggi Province.

Pocheon Mountain Temple

This is a Korean alcohol museum focusing on Gayangju, a traditional liquor. The large drinking vessels lined up in Sewolang in the mountain temple garden are spectacular, and it is fun to see the relics and related materials that have been buried by hand. After visiting the museum, you can sample the raw liquor of the Baesang-myeon brewery, and there is also an experience program where you can make gayangju, fruit wine, and sushiju. It is a traditional liquor gallery that is well-received by foreigners as well.

Jangsuchon

It is located in Hwahyeon-ri, Pocheon-si, and has been selected as a representative restaurant designated by Pocheon-si. Herb Island and Sanjeong Lake are nearby, and Unaksan Mountain is also nearby. It is a wellness restaurant that serves traditional meals to customers using only clean, natural produce. This soft tofu and barley rice specialty restaurant is a place where various groups, events, and events can be held.

Pocheon Art Valley

A picturesque emerald lake, with granite cliffs as steep as a folding screen above it! Pocheon Art Valley, a complex cultural and artistic space where you can appreciate and enjoy art in nature, was an abandoned quarry that no one visited until the 1990s. However, it has now been completely transformed into a healing spot with nature and art, visited by 400,000 people annually. In particular, since 2014, the Astronomical Science Museum, where you can admire the stars in the night sky, has been opened and has been very popular as a place for experiential education for children and as a date course for couples.

Herb Island

It is the largest herb botanical garden in the country registered as a first-class specialized museum (botanical garden) with a botanical garden and exhibition hall (110,000 ㎡) within the tourist farm Herb Island (329,000 ㎡). About 250 types of herbs and various plants are planted in the Herb and Plant Museum, so you can see bright and green plants throughout the four seasons. The Herb and Plant Museum consists of a total of four indoor exhibition halls and an outdoor exhibition hall. There are herbs and plants at the center of each exhibition hall, making viewing fun and being used as a healing space as well as a place for children's ecological experience education.