7D Korea Golden Rama Tour: Petite France

 If your tour itinerary includes a visit to Nami Island, most likely it will include a visit to the nearby French cultural village, Petite France. From its outward look, you will think that this European village seems to be a tad out of of place in South Korea. 

7D Korea Golden Rama Tour: Petite France

However, due to its unique concept, Petite France has become a filming location for many best-selling TV series like Secret Garden and The Man Who Came from the Star. I watched both series and they are both pretty fun to watch. 

Petite France at South Korea

To be honest with you, I was not particularly looking forward to visit Petite France again because I have been here before and I have explored the whole place (more or less). You probably will not need more than one hour to play at Petite France. But the thing about joining a tour is you don't really have a say in the tour itinerary. You just have to bear with the not-so-excited place and proceed with it. So yeah, Petite France is fun for first time visitor but not so for 2nd time visitor. 

Entrance to Petite France at South Korea

Anyway rather than grumble, let's just revisit the beautiful colorful houses at Petite France. These houses serve as cafe, stores, exhibition facility and also a youth training facility. There are 16 French-style buildings where visitors can lodge and experience French food, clothing and household culture.  

Beautiful houses of Petite France

Right after entering Petite France, you will see an auditorium. There will be puppet shows and performance held at this open auditorium. This auditorium also served as jail for one of the early episode of Running Man. That was quite a fun episode to watch really. 

Open auditorium at Petite France South Korea

Mom feels like posing like Hyun Bin. I don't think she even watch the drama but she's being so cute here trying to stick her head out there because the poster frame is quite tall. Hahahah.

Mom posing as Hyun Bin from Secret Garden at Petite France

Some of the houses are open for you to take a peek inside. The interior design of the house is inspired from a typical village house in French. Hmm, I am not very sure if a house in French village has that many plates though. Do people there still have a very big family nowadays?

European plates collection at Petite France South Korea

This is how the living room looks like with piano, sofa and cupboard. I can tell within one glance that it's gonna be a huge effort tyring to clean the whole house with design like this. 

European living room inside house at Petite France

We were getting bored after 30 minutes of wandering around Petite France so we decided to buy drinks intead. There is a cafe next to the house that we just saw earlier and this is the list of the price for the coffee and tea. 

Coffee and tea price at Petite France cafe

From where the cafe is located, you can see the view of Cheongpyeong Lake. Quite a nice view from above, except for the fact that it was so hot. 

Lake Chuncheonho viewed from Petite France

The seating area on the right side is where you can sit down and enjoy the drinks that you just bought from the cafe earlier. We sat down for a good 15 minutes before we made our move to the auditorium again since our appointed meeting time is still 20 minutes away. 

Cafe seating area at Petite France South Korea

A recreation of a French village will not be completed without a small miniature of the Eiffel Tower, in yellow color. Je'taime! 

Eiffel Tower at Petite France South Korea

  Did you see the statue of a young boy dressed up in green coat behind me? The boy is actually the Little Prince. The concept of Petite France derives from "flowers, stars, and the Little Prince". The village has a memorial hall which is dedicated to Saint-Exupery, the author of the celebrated French novel, Le Petit Prince (1943). I guess you can call Petite France as the Little Prince theme park. If you'd like to, you can buy some souvenirs or even the French kitchenwares from some of the shops in Petite France. 

Posing with Little Prince at Petite France South Korea
Marionette or puppet show are available at certain timing and this show seems to be very popular with the children. I have no idea what the person is saying though because she spoke in Korean but the puppet dance is quite fun to watch. There is no additional fees need to be made to watch the show. 
Puppet show at Petite France South Korea
Admission fees:
Adults: 8,000 KRW
Teenagers (middle and high schoolers): 6,000 KRW
Children (3 y.o. - elementary school students): 5,000 KRW
Seniors (>65 y.o.) and People with disability: 6,000 KRW

Opening hours:

Sunday to Thursday: 9AM - 6PM
Friday to Saturday: 9AM - 8PM

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