Coincidentally, my friends Matt&Joce were here for a two weeks trip and I made plans with them to visit the palace. Indeed, the Secret Garden was a really nice place. The colours were rich and with those nice traditional buildings in the back drop, the picture comes out perfect effortlessly.
The only troublesome part about this trip was that in order to tour Secret Garden, we had to follow the tour, which also has limited spots per day per language. I thought we almost couldn't get into the English tour because it was fully reserved as shown on the website but when I went to the ticket booth itself in the morning, tickets were still available fortunately. The tickets that were most popular were actually the Korean tours.
The entrance cost 3000 won and the Secret Garden tour was another 5000 won.
In the end, the tour was pretty boring and we were more excited to just snap our photos and not listen to the tour at all.
We intentionally, or non, slowed down our pace because we were obsessed with our pictures and we got told off by one of those park staff that we had to follow the tour in order to walk around this Secret Garden. He was pretty fierce and I thought we didn't deserve that!
Look at these golden leaves!
It was a really fun time with Matt & Joce and I didn't regret going there because the fall colours were beautiful. However, I still think the Palace is pretty from the outside because there really isn't much to see within each of the "house".
