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Hotel Hilversum Suwon

San 42-1 Ha-Dong Suwon, -, Korea Rep.

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Fun with Folks

A travel blog entry by stacimcg

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... less sweet.

I then set off on the trickiest part of the journey, returning to the hotel. I asked a Jogeon warrior at the entrance "Taxi?". He pointed to a small office outside the gate: "Information". Inside I asked the same question to the very nice lady manning the brochure desk. She replied with a long stream of Korean. I smiled. Then she asked "You speak Chinese?" I shook my head. At this point she realized I was a lost ...

Lost in translation

A travel blog entry by stacimcg

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... for a take out order at the Outback, I was offered a tasty fizzy pineapple drink, and the Korean version of Elle magazine which I browsed through and found this inspiring, if confusing, quote. (On a separate note, I haven't been to the Outback in the U.S. in awhile, but I don't recall them ever treating customers like they were at a spa! Love Korea!)

Nail remover (Family Mart) - It's probably quite useful to carpenters, but sounds really painful for ...

Suwon Hwaseong Festival : Fortress & Military Show

A travel blog entry by londone7

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... wall climbs the side of the mountain ridge to reach the ringed summit. Along the top are small watchtowers. Near the top there was a long lookout stretching outside the fortress for about 200m. After this the fortress wall was even so it was easy to walk along.

There was another lookout and gate from where you had a panorama view overlooking the palace and city below. Its actually hard to tell where the fortress walls are as the ...

Suwon Hwaseong Festival : Royal & Citizens Parades

A travel blog entry by londone7

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... 2010 when I first arrived in Korea. This weekend was the annual Suwon fortress festival which would have many costumed performances, battle re-anactments, and a large military street parade. Four of us headed down from Daegu for this weekends events.

If you are not taking the metro from Seoul, the high speed KTX line from Busan thru Daegu also stops at Suwon. Unfortunately, only four trains actually make the stop in Suwon ...

Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival

A travel blog entry by stacimcg

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... the only people present tall enough to see over the 5 1/2 foot wall. We watched the parade (which included a Korean jazz band doing a fabulous rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching in"), and then wandered along the top of the fortress wall and then back inside the walls to the festival tents.

We went in search of dinner and wandered a little off the beaten path, and stumbled (but didn't enter) of a few of the restaurants we'd ...

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