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Kyongju Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kyongju, Korea Rep.
Sleeping Korean Style.
This is a top pick! ... A hot floor will never have felt so good....! Footnote: Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple, Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong and Gyeongju Historic Areas (incorporating Mt Namsan District, Wolseong Fortress District, Daereungwon Royal ...
Gyeongju
This is a top pick! ... housed the permanent exhibition. There were 2 other buildings that were home to the archeology and to the Buddhist art exhibitions. Around Korea, the Iron Age was lived with a lag of a few centuries, compared to the Middle East. Around the 7th ...
Bulguksa Temple...
... time in Korea so far. Nothing in particular happened, but suddenly I just felt bored of being in a routine. I'd been in Korea exactly three months, and research suggested that this is prime culture shock territory. The newness and excitement has worn off, ...
Welcome to Gyeongju
... and had plenty to do and see while there! Yesterday we visited the National Fusion Research Institute in Daejeon and the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials. Today our tours included the Pohang Iron and Steel Company (which was actually pretty ...
Around the ancient capital
... any emails. One can only wonder if we did or said something which may have unwittingly offended them. This was Korea after all, and you could never tell how people felt about what you said. Despite showering them with praise about their ...
Látogatás a Bulguksa templomba / Temple tour
Utolsó kirándulásunk a Silla dinasztia által 528-ban épített Bulguksa templomba vezetett, ami kétségkívül Dél-Korea egyik legszebb buddhista templom-komplexuma. Sajnos a világháború és a japán megszállás idején szinte az összes ...
Golden Week Travels- heading north
Gyeongju was only an hour bus ride from Pusan. After ditching our bags at a hostel, (that seemed like a barn after the place we stayed in the night before) we rented bikes to explore the quaint village. It seemed like a grand idea, and ...
In Gyeongju
Quick message, I've made it to Gyeongju and its hostel, what a dump! What more evidence do you need that monopolies don't work? Supposed to be paying for the computer too, so can't be long. Will probably next message when get to Japan on the 4th. See you ...
Gyeongju, August 17-18, 2006
We tagged along on a conferance tour to Gyeongju for two days and saw the sights, which included some beautiful scenes, a temple, and a few ...
Killer Hike
... and spread there veggies out or whatever their product was and just hang out all day. At this market you could buy all sorts of fruit, spices, veggies, live turtles, fish, and all sorts of other food. Korea you are an interesting country. ...
temple stay = very bruised knees :(
Yesterday was somewhat of a slow day; we couldn't take photos at the places we visited, which were: Daewang-Am tour in Gyeongju, the Wolseong Nuclear Power Station in Wolseong, and the Gyeongju National Museum. Our first stop today was the Seokguram ...
Unter Hügeln
Am Morgen wuchtete ich mein Gepäck aus dem vierten Stockwerk über schmale Stiege wieder herunter auf die Straße. Da auch meine schweren Kleidungsstücke wie die Wanderschuhe in der Tasche waren, ist sie eindeutig zu schwer, um komfortabel zu reisen. ...
A Buddha-hegy / Challenging Mt. Namsan
Vasárnapra igazi hegymászó túrát szerveztünk, célunk a vallási relikviákkal sűrűn tűzdelt Namsan hegy meghódítása volt. Elegendő vízzel és némi táplálékkal felszerelve vágtunk neki a feladatnak, ami korántsem ...
Bulgoksa and Seokguram
... start and got the 6.28am train from Suwon, which took a little over four hours to get us to our destination. Although Korea's countryside can be attractive, with wooded hills and rice paddies, it isn't diverse and thus a journey such as this can ...
The Kyoto of Korea
... it was that nice. There were so many couples out tonight too. It was really evident I wasn't in Japan anymore with all of the public displays of affection going on. You don't see hand holding all that often in Japan. In Korea, it's impossible not ...
Going to Gyongju
Gyongju is a relative small town in the south east of South Korea. Having been pretty relaxed (some may say lazy) in visiting cultural sites on our journey so far, Gyongju was exactly the place that would remediate that position. It is host to a ...
Down amongst the tumuli
... in the middle of the old area of town too - an added plus. The charming Sarangchae guesthouse oozes with the traditional Korea, with its tile-roofed buildings of plaster and wood and a lovely courtyard linking them for guests to gather and socialize in. ...
Mártózás a Japán-tengerben / Baywatch time :-)
Hétfő, tökéletes az idő egy kis tengerparti pancsolásra. A busz 300 Ft-ért elvisz Gyeongju-ból a majd egy órányira fekvő strandra! Rendes helyi fürdőzőkként vittük az itt alapnak számító strandfelszerelést: PVC ...
Lovely Gyeongju
Gyeongju was the most beautiful place we saw in Korea. It is the ancient capital of the Shilla Dynasty (~900-1200 AD) and lies in a large valley filled with rice paddies, surrounded by green, forested mountains. We rented bikes and rode around the town, ...
Glutton for Punishment
Okay. We are insane. Our hotel last night was not exactly a spa. There is nothing special, what a dump. Hey, that was the chance we took booking over the internet. Like playing Russian roulette. We survived to talk about it. It is stinky here. ...
Látogatás a Silla birodalomba / Gyeongsangbuk
... spend our first long weekend visiting Gyeongju county, the cultural capital of the ancient Shilla kingdom and surroundings. 2010-2012 is Korea Turism Year, offering free busrides to several cities of the country from Seoul! This is a chance we have ...
Gyeongju
Ein Stunde im KTX mit entspannten 300 km/h und 15 minuten in einem überfüllten Linienbus später sind wir in Gyeongju. Das ist die die Hauptstadt des Königreiches der Silla vor ungefähr 1000 Jahren. Hier gibt es Königsgräber, ...
I'm Not a Very Good Cultural Tourist
... things of note from this day-long jaunt were: (1) the East Los Angeles hills where they filmed M.A.S.H. do look a lot like Korea; (2) I had my first bibimbap (here), which is stuff on rice, dining alone in a large restaurant clearly desgined for ...
Gyeongju
... ), and the tower's exact position was related to the locations of certain stars. Bunhwang-sa -- said to be the oldest datable pagoda in Korea (built in AD 634), and a rare example of a pagoda made from brick -- turned out to be a big ...
Bulguksa Tempel
... MOR pa koreansk - kan ikke lige huske navnet p.t. Det ovrige museum var meget interessant, medmange smukke fund fra det gamle Korea. Specielt har man fundet mange velbevarede smykker og en meget smuk kongekrone. Vi tog bussen hjem igen i regnvejr, men da ...