Hwaseong Fortress Suwon

Knock, Knock! Who's there? Check out at 1100. Check out at 1100 what? That was how our morning started. We were up late last night exploring the market as it was our last night in Seoul and so we planned on sleeping in later this morning. I had already showered and started packing up. It was around 1125 when I heard a knock on our door. It was our …

On our first day to just be tourists, we decided to venture to a festival that my husband had heard about at the Hwaseong Fortress. A quick chat at the hotel front desk, and shortly a taxi was pulling up outside. We handed the driver the card where the hotel clerk had written the name of our destination in Korean, and off we went. I had heard from …

The excursion for this weekend is to the city of Suwon for the Suwon Hwaseong Culture Festival. Suwon is not close to Daegu. In fact, its closer to Seoul. Rather than take the KTX, I opted to take my time and took a Mugunghwa train from Daegu Station to Suwon. The ride was about 3 hours.

Upon arrival in Suwon, I met up with the usual …

... roundabout surrounded by 3 lane traffic each way. Walking a bit further you come to a massive open square and entrance to the Hwaseong Fortress, beacuse I had taken so long to get here (taking a circutous route up the hill towards the temple, passing a ...

... a fortnight and have a chance to catch up on some much needed rest.  We spent the following weekend in Suwon, capped off with some archery at the Hwaseong fortress, where I was in top form hitting the target on six occasions.   With a long ...

... of things to do was to check out Hwaseong Fortress, which I'd been patiently waiting to do for weeks. Hwaseong Fortress is a wall surrounding the center of Suwon, that was built in the 18th century. (Wiki fun fact: it was built by King Jeongjo [Joseon ...

... Jeongjo made an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to make Suwon the nation's capital in 1796. The main sight of Suwon is the Hwaseong fortress and the brick fortress wall running around the entire inner city, a nice walking path. In order ...

... screen in his dashboard while driving, which was a bit unnerving. But we arrived safely with no near misses (or hits). The Hwaseong Fortress is a 3 1/2 mile wall surrounding the city center of Suwon. It was built in the late 1700's by King Jeongio ...

... 't think that any of my examples are funny enough to make engrish's cut, so I decided to share them here instead. Beer Bank (near Hwaseong Fortress)- We'd like to make a withdrawal, please. Coffee and Peanuts (at Home Plus) - I was so intrigued as to how ...

We just hopped off the metro in Suwon for a few hours on our way to Seoul to visit Hwaseong Fortress. It was really nice weather (finally!!) so we walked round the wall of the fortress, which went up really high so had some nice views of the city. En ...

... has done their family stuff yesterday and still have a holiday, guess where they all decide to go... suwon! this is a must see location for anyone living in korea that hasnt gone and its very popular due to its closeness to seoul. the first thing you ...

... ;  Now that we had some food in our belly, my friend and I decided to head to the main attraction of Suwon.  Hwaseong Fortress is essentially a defensive wall surrounding the city.  We ended up walking along the walls for a bit which gave ...

...   When I got to the North gate, I cheated a little and walked through town, because I was looking for the Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Information Center.  It had a moive and I thought it probably had an interpertive center where I could learn ...