Farm Kamille: A Beautiful Garden To See In Taean-gun

Farm Kamille (팜카밀레) is a gorgeous garden in Chungcheongbuk-do that makes a great addition to any trip to Taean-gun. I’ve been to Taean-gun on the west coast of Korea a few times now and each time find something beautiful to see. It’s an area of Korea that is easy to get to from Seoul and makes a perfect weekend away without much hassle. You could easily spend a weekend seeing plenty from the beaches to the gardens and parks.

Take a road trip and stop at Ami Museum on the way or in the spring don’t miss the flowers on the mountainside at Yoogibanggaoak and you’ll end up with a fun road trip with nature, art, and fun! What are you waiting for?

Farm Kamille, Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

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How To Get There

Address: 56-19 Uun-gil, Nam-myeon, Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do (충남 태안군 남면 우운길 56-19)

By Car: There is so much to see in Taean and beyond. If you don’t have a car, look into renting a car while in Korea. It’s not difficult and makes planning super cool adventures even easier.

By Bus: Catch a bus from Central City Bus Terminal to Taean Bus Terminal. The bus takes 2 hours and 10 minutes. Buses leave every two hours or so. Check the schedule here on Kobus.co.kr From there you can take bus 732 which goes almost directly to Farm Kamille. You’ll want to get off at Mongsan 2-ri Stop which is 18 stops from where you start and it takes just under 30 minutes. From there you can follow signs for a short walk just up the road to the garden.

Basic Information

Hours: March ~ November: 9:00am ~ 7:00pm; December – February: 9:00am ~ 5:30pm

Admission: Adults: W8,000; Children: W5,000 (from March ~ November); Adults: W6,000; Children: W3,000 (from December ~ February)

Website: http://kamille.co.kr/

What To See At Farm Kamille

Farm Kamille is one of the KTO’s wellness travel destinations. Opened in 2004, the grounds are an herb and flower garden. Annually around 100,000 people visit Farm Kamille but there were all of 10 people there the day we visited. There are ten different garden zones and you can either follow the map or just wander but I recommend following the path from the entrance around in a sort of clockwise path so that you can really see everything.

The park is pretty substantial and each zone is beautiful in different ways and you won’t want to miss any part so working in a circle will ensure you don’t miss any little bits. Feel free to wander in and out and along the smaller paths that lead in and around various water features and seating areas where you can just sit and enjoy the views if you like.

Since we visited in the autumn, the first really beautiful area featured globe amaranth and tall pampas. We stopped for some time here not realizing just how much larger the park and gardens were.

When the plants are bigger than myself, I tend to want to plant my feet right where they are and just enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by something. Sitting amongst the pampas was both beautiful and like a hidden oasis that only I was inside of.

I love gardens and parks and if you’ve followed The Soul of Seoul for some time, that is probably not a surprise. There are some really beautiful gardens and parks in Korea like Yangju’s Nari Flower Park, or Incheon’s Dream Park, and we’ve been lucky enough to visit them often when very few other people are around. If you want to be on your own in a park, go on a weekday if possible. But if it’s the weekend, just go when they open.

Most people tend to visit around lunch time or just after so the earlier you can get out the better. And that worked out really well for our trip to Farm Kamille.

While the park is mostly natural beauty and aromatic herbs, there are some quirky little statues and paintings of Petit Prince to find too. Petit Prince seems to make an appearance in a lot of gardens and tourist sites around Korea. He’s in Petite France in Gapyeong, which makes a bit more sense, and in other parks, too. It’s a quirky addition but in Farm Kamille it isn’t overly intrusive on the overall experience. Now that I’ve said that, you’ll also notice the French character more and more. Just watch.

Depending on the season, you can see any number of flowers at Farm Kamille. There’s a rose garden with 60 different types of roses. There is a lavender garden, globe amaranth, pampas, herbs like chamomile and sage, and sunflowers, chrysanthemums, or tulips depending on the season. From spring through autumn, you can visit and see just beautiful views.

The back area of the garden also has a very European aesthetic and you somehow with the rolling of the hills here, you can turn around and feel like the fields just go on and on… even though they really don’t.

There was a moment headed toward the pink muhly and lighthouse when I turned around and thought, wow, how stunning is this little European garden.

Continue along the back fence to follow a path that will lead you around to the small farm area where you, or your little one, can feed donkeys, ponies, and bunnies. From there, there are yet more flowering areas and then a beautiful pond with a picturesque wooden boat that you can seat yourself on for a photo. If you visit in the summer there would be more lotus here too, though not this late in the autumn. I had read that the park took just an hour to see, but we enjoyed quite a bit more time than that though we really love flowers and plants, animals and bugs too.

Experiences At Farm Kamille

After walking through the entire park and gardens, you’ll come out to where a cafe is that is still IN the garden. This is also where you can do experiences, shop for herbal lotions, bath balms, and other holistic herbal remedies and enjoy a cup of tea. There are a number of experiences you can do aside from walking through the gardens.

Foot Baths: Inside the main building just before you exit is a cafe with footbaths with aromatic oils. Drink a cup of herbal tea in the Healing Cafe and dip your toes in the baths. The foot bath areas are private little cubbies that hold four baths per space so it’s great if you’ve got a small group with you too. Cost: W10,000
Cypress Room: Find this room that is shaped like a cave and covered in cypress wood. There are wooden beds inside that can fit up to 10 people and you can enjoy the wooden ambiance for free for an hour.
Wood Crafting & Herbal Perfume Making: In the wood crafting experience, you can make a wooden coin bank, toy, or a book holder. In the herbal perfume experience, learn more about essential oils and herbs and make your own concoction. Cost: W18,000 ~ W26,000 depending on what you choose to make.

Cafes & Shops

After exiting, you’ll come back up to the ticket booth and you can go back out the car park or you can go up to where there is another quite substantial cafe and some shops. They have a bit more in the way of food and drinks if you want something other than the tea you could have inside the park.

There is also this beautiful seating area with plants overgrown to sit up there too which is quite nice. These seats overlook the entire garden so it’s quite nice to either start here to gauge where to go when you’re in the park or to end here to get an overlook of where you just came from.

Farm Kamille is a beautiful KTO Wellness location that you should check out when you head to Taean-gun in Chungcheongnam-do next. The list of places that make up the KTO wellness locations is a must check out and make it easy to plan trips around Korea if you want to make sure you see beautiful places, have relaxing fun, and get in some good photo-ops too.

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