Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
June 2012
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ITINERARY TABLE
Annyeong Haseyo! ....................................................................... 5
Depart! .......................................................................................... 6
First Impression............................................................................ 8
Gyeongju vs Kyoto ....................................................................... 9
Daereungwon / Tumuli Park ....................................................... 10
Temple Stay at Golgulsa ............................................................. 13
World Culture Expo Park ........................................................... 30
Silla Millennium Park .................................................................. 35
Accommodation......................................................................... 38
Bulguksa ...................................................................................... 41
Seokguram ................................................................................. 44
Yangdong Folk Village ............................................................... 47
National Museum ....................................................................... 50
Banwolseong.............................................................................. 53
Cheomseongdae Observatory .................................................. 54
Local Foods................................................................................. 55
Donggung Palace and Anapji Pond ........................................... 57
Namsan Mountain...................................................................... 58
Poseokjeong ................................................................................ 61
Najeong Well .............................................................................. 62
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Bunhwangsa ............................................................................... 64
Hwangnyongsa .......................................................................... 66
Back to Seoul .............................................................................. 69
Recommendation ...................................................................... 70
Day
Day 1
Time
Morning
Noon
Day 2
Afternoon
Afternoon
Day 3
Evening
Morning
Afternoon
Day 4
Evening
Morning
Afternoon
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Activity
Go to Gyeongju from Seoul
Arrive in Gyeongju
Daereungwon / Tumuli Park
Temple Stay 1 Night at Golgulsa
Checkout from Golgulsa
World Culture Expo Park
Silla Millennium Park
Check into Nahbi Guesthouse
Bulguksa
Seokguram
Yangdong Folk Village
National Museum
Banwolseong
Cheomseongdae Observatory
Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond
Namsan Mountain
Poseokjeong
Najeong Well
Bunhwangsa
Hwangnyongsa
Back to Seoul
Annyeong Haseyo!
With a little preparation, today I was off to Gyeongju by myself for 4
days carrying 1 backpack only. At that time I was staying in Seoul,
South Korea. Many people asked me, Where is Gyeongju? What to
see there? Maybe it is not as popular as Busan or Jeju, but if you
love cultural places like me then you should really visit this city.
Gyeongju in the old days was named Seorabeol, a capital city of Silla
Kingdom. Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms which ruled Korea
Peninsula (both North and South) in 57 BC 935 AD, together with
Goguryeo and Baekje. Later Silla conquered the other 2 kingdoms to
become Unified Silla.
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Depart!
There were 3 ways to go to Gyeongju from Seoul by public
transportation.
1.
2.
3.
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I chose the first option, because it was cheaper than the second
option, but faster than the third one. I departed from Express Bus
Terminal, because its closer to my place. See below Seoul Subway
map: 21 minutes 6 stations vs 31 minutes 14 stations.
D = Departure
T = Transit
A = Arrival
This was the bus I took, quite fancy, right? I departed Seoul at 8:10 in
the morning (on time!) and arrived in Gyeongju around 12 at noon.
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First Impression
Soon when the bus arrived in Gyeongju toll gate, we were welcomed
by a nice old Korean style gate. Apparently every corner of the city
was designed with old stuff. Bus stops were shaped like Hanok
(Korean Traditional House). Temples, tombs, stupas/pagodas,
Buddha statues were seen everywhere. Every corner of the city had a
story. I was about to die of excitement. Gyeongju city did really have
one unique character and I fell in love with this city directly.
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Gyeongju vs Kyoto
Arrived in Gyeongju Express Bus Terminal, first thing to do was
entering Tourist Information Center (TIC), since its located just
beside bus terminal. I don't know why, it's already a habit to visit TIC
before starting the journey even though I already noted and knew
where and how to go to places. There's always something to ask and
something new to discover in Tourist Information Center.
Like this time, when I entered TIC, which was located just beside bus
terminal, a friendly old guy inside looked at me and directly talked to
me, even before the staff greeted me. "Indonesian?" Whoa, how does
he know? I hadnt spoken anything yet.
He was a Japanese traveler who lived in Indonesia sometimes ago for
few years, so perhaps he was familiar with faces like mine. He said he
wrote for Lonely Planet before, and had traveled to many places
around the world. From the way he talked, I could tell that he was
not bluffing.
Then we talked about how different Japan and Korea in terms of
tourism sites. By chance, I had just been to Japan 2 weeks before my
trip to Gyeongju, so I knew exactly what he was trying to say. This
Gyeongju city of Korea is like Kyoto in Japan, full of historical and
cultural things. Kyoto has many beautiful temples and gardens, but it
is really commercial. There is no place without entrance fee. While in
Gyeongju, we could find some free good places to visit, for example
(the ones that the man recommended to me): National Museum and
Yangdong Folk Village. I directly noted them in my To Visit List.
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Other than seeing the tombs, you can just walk around enjoying this
beautiful park. It was all green during summer. I wonder how it
would be like in other seasons.
I ate my packed lunch Tuna Kimbab here which I brought from Seoul,
before heading to the next place. Kimbab is a Korean dish made of
steamed white rice wrapped by seaweed and filled up with various
ingredients like cucumber, carrot, radish, egg, tuna, beef and fish
cake. It is often eaten during picnic, traveling and outdoor events,
because it is really practical, easy, fast, convenient and quite stuffed.
Most bus terminals in Korea have a food stall selling Kimbab.
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really near the temple. I had to walk, under the hot summer sun, for
about 1 km. There were signs of Golgulsa along the path walks, so I
just needed to follow them. Along the street, there were many
industrial factories that were not really nice to see. I was praying that
the temple was not located near any of these factories. If it was, then
my imagination about a peaceful Temple Stay was ruined.
What, another 3km?! No, another temple called Girimsa was another
3km, but Golgulsa was here onto the left. Apparently there was free
performance of Sunmudo twice daily in Golgulsa at 11 AM and 3 PM.
Just about the time! Wait, perhaps they asked me to come before 3
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Dormitory
There were about 1 hour left from dinner time, I then walked and just
sat around the main building. Because this area was located on the
most top of the complex, we could see a lot of things from here;
such a perfect place for meditation.
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During the walks, I was thinking how I was easy to get up in this early
morning to do morning chanting. Was it because the excitement of
this new experience? Was it because I was the outsider who felt
guilty and not respect them if I came late? Was it because I was
scared with the punishment? In my own religion, I also had an early
morning pray (Sholat Subuh), but I often woke up late and missed it.
This really made me reflect my habit to respect my own belief like I
respect other religions. I hoped from that day I could wake up early
more often and did my morning pray (instead of chanting) excitedly.
In the main hall, some monks already started the preparation for this
morning chanting. Like yesterday chanting, I was also given the script
book in English. We sat on the cushioned floor and started chanting
with a beautiful rhythm accompanying by the tock tock wooden
sound. After chanting, we had sitting meditation. I thought this was
almost the same with praying in my religion. During praying we
should be focused and not thinking elsewhere.
I felt peaceful in the beginning, but after few minutes my feet started
to cramp. I moved my hips to sit on one foot to another, not being
used to sit in that position for long time. My stomach was also
started to sing, made me not focus on my meditation. At that time, I
wished it was finished soon because of the embarrassment caused
by my loud hungry stomach haha.
After that, we had walking meditation. I like this one. Outside the
main hall, when the sun was rising, we lined up about 2 meters from
each other. We then started walking down slowly. The morning air
and breeze were really refreshing.
The gong sounded as a sign of breakfast time. This time I was so
hungry and ended up taking a lot of foods without consciousness. I
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thought I could finish them all, but no. Many people already finished
and went out of dining hall, but I was still struggling with my foods.
Fortunately there was a Korean girl besides me who was aware of my
problem. She offered to eat some foods on my plate. Even though
she could not eat much, but it was really helping. I hope I would
never take too much and waste foods anymore.
From dining hall, we gathered in Training Hall for Sunmudo training.
This time it got less people because the neighborhood teenagers did
not join. The masters suddenly decided to have the training outside,
yay! We all could fit in one 8-seated car. They drove us to a nearby
beach called Bonggil beach which turned out to be the home of King
).
King Munmu is the 30th ruler of Silla Kingdom who unified the three
kingdoms (Silla, Goguryeo and Baekje). He ordered to be buried in
the East Sea after his death so that he would become a dragon and
protect Silla from Japanese intruders. The tomb is formed as a rocky
island, not far from the land. Its said that the remains of King
Munmus cremated body are buried under this rock.
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Then we went
back to the
temple, and had
tea time with
the temple
master. In this
session, we
gathered circle
in one small
room facing the
master. He
made hot green
tea in a big bowl,
pour the tea to
several tea cups,
and pass them
to all of us.
While enjoying
the tea, he
talked about
the temple,
Buddha, Sunmudo, and many other things, mostly in Korean but
sometimes in good English. I remember he said that one night is not
enough to experience the temple culture. He said that in general to
all of us but I knew he specifically talked to me, because I was the
only one in that audience who joined the temple stay for one night
only haha.
It was almost 11AM, some people started preparation for Sunmudo
performance, and the rest were scattered around. It was a free time
anyway. I saw few buses and tourists were around the temple at that
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Yummy Berries
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The girl went to her room for a moment to take her diary and
showed it to me. What, showing me her secret diary?! Apparently she
had been practicing English, and written down her daily experience in
this temple using English. She asked me to review her written English
in that diary. Of course I did it with pleasure. I read it and found the
stories inside was not that secret. Even with few mistakes, I could
understand the list of activities she did in this temple and the result
she hoped to get by doing this Temple Stay.
Her family sometimes visited her on the weekend. She was allowed
to go outside the temple one day a week during weekend, and she
used it for eating meats haha. It was ok as long the meats were not
brought inside temple.
At 12PM, the gong signed of lunch time sounded. We went inside
dining hall to have lunch. This time I made sure I did not take too
much food like in the morning. This was also my last temple meal,
because after lunch I would check-out.
I walked down to my room to take shower and packed my things. I
returned the uniforms and key in the administration office, and
walked out of the temple complex back to Gyeongju city. Goodbye,
Golgulsa! Thank you for this first Temple Stay experience. I looked
forward for another Temple Stay in other temples in other seasons in
Korea. Next time I want to meditate and think about life peacefully in
a temple during cold winter with white snowy scenery mountains of
Korea, or during romantic fall season with colorful trees view. That
would be nice.
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The tower is basically the center part of this park. From the tower, I
went to the front part which I skipped this in the beginning maybe
because too mesmerized by the tower. In the front part, there are
some dioramas about the love story between Princess Seonhwa of
and a Hwarang hero named Giparang. The Hwarang (Flower Boys) is
an elite group of male youth in Silla where members gathered for all
aspects of study, originally for arts, martials, and culture. There was
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also a children section with cartoon statues like the famous Korean
animation: Pororo.
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Then I walked to the back part of this park, passing by the Tower
again. On the right side there is a big theater usually showing the
famous cultural show, like Miso: a traditional musical dance
drama/love story chronicling the four seasons of Korea. Id really love
to watch that show, so I checked the upcoming schedule for that day.
The next show would start at 6pm; I did not think I could make it
since I still had to visit Silla Millenium Park after this. Miso show is
showing also in Seoul, so I might be able to watch it later in Seoul
(but apparently not). On to the back side of the tower, first I saw a
Dinosaur park, where many kinds of Dinosaurs statues were showing;
not interested.
Then, there is TV Drama Athena Location Set. I came inside the
building to find out about the drama, and to chill out a little bit in a
cold room. This action thriller drama was aired in SBS in 2010, and
telling a story about a counter-terrorism agency called National antiTerror Service (NTS) to protect nuclear energy technology. Sounds
complicated. So this building is apparently the NTS office setting for
the drama. The last part of this Expo that I saw was a Chinese Zodiac
Park. There are 12 animal statues wearing Chinese cloth standing in
circle representing the 12 Chinese Zodiacs.
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Accommodation
It is time to check in to the hostel I've booked: Nahbi Guesthouse
(closed since July 2014). In choosing a hostel, I usually check its rating
and availability in booking service websites such as hostelworld and
hostelbookers, and also the rating in tripadvisor. When I find a hostel
name, I search their website first to check if the rate written in their
website is cheaper than booking service websites. Mostly there is no
difference in the rate, but booking service websites like hostelworld
required us to pay deposit and their service fee. Like this guesthouse
in Gyeongju, I ended booking it directly through their website
because they did not ask for deposit. My agenda in Gyeongju was
quite flexible so I did not want to lose any money if I canceled it later
hehe.
As expected, I did change my plan from 3 nights to 2 nights only
when I was already in Gyeongju, after more reading, browsing and
consideration that 2 nights 3 days is enough to explore Gyeongju city.
I booked Nahbi Guesthouse for 3 nights but when I actually checked
in I said I changed to 2 nights only. At that time, staying 2 nights in a 4
beds female dorm room of this guesthouse cost 34,000.
I followed the map and guide that I received from their email. The
location was quite strategic in downtown, as you can see from the
map below: 10 minutes walking distance to Express Bus Terminal (for
buses traveling in Express Way to/from other cities), to Intercity Bus
Terminal (for regular buses), to Tombs Park I visited the day before,
and 20 minutes walking distance to train station. It was easy, from
Silla Millenium Park, I just needed to find a bus back to bus terminal,
which was the same bus I took from bus terminal to the temple the
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day before, and from the temple to World Park / Silla Millenium Park
this afternoon.
The nearest bus stop was the one located just in front of the building,
but I alighted few stops before, on the bus stop in front of Gyeongju
Train Station, and walked to the hostel while exploring the area.
There were market and some shops on the left side, while mostly
banks on the right side.
It was around 8pm when I finished checking-in the hotel and taking
shower. I went to the hostel main area to discuss with the
receptionist about some places to visit in Gyeongju, and to sit around.
As usual guesthouse, they provided TV, books and some boardgames
in the lobby.
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Bulguksa
I started the next day by visiting Bulguksa, the most famous temple
in Gyeongju. It is a home to two most valued pagodas in Korea:
Dabotap and Seokgatap, and other National Treasures.
I read in the internet that I could take Bus No 10 and 11 to go to
Bulguksa. Fortunately Bus No 10 came not long after I arrived on the
bus stop across my hostel. The journey took about 1 hour which cost
1500, passing by most of the other major sights.
The first thing to do when I arrived in Bulguksa was checking the bus
schedule to my next destination, Seokguram. This is important so I
could use my time efficiently for sightseeing more than for waiting
bus. One of the convenient things of traveling in Korea is you can
check bus schedule in almost every bus stop, and the buses come on
time.
Since it is a famous tourist place, there is a Tourist Information
Center (TIC) outside the temple. If you cant understand the schedule
written on the bus stop, you can just easily ask the staff in TIC. The
bus from Bulguksa to Seokguram is No 12, and it runs every 30
minutes.
The entrance to Bulguksa Temple is called Seokgyemun. It has 33
steps staircase which resembles 33 steps to enlightenment. It is
divided into two sections; the lower section named Cheong-un-gyo
(the Blue Cloud Bridge), and the upper section named Baek-un-gyo
(White Cloud Bridge).
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In one part of the garden, I saw many stacks of stones. It was actually
a kind of worship visitors put to ask for good fortunes from Buddha.
Each stone within the stack represents a particular wish or family
member. This is a common practice in South Korean temple.
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Seokguram
From Bulguksa, the bus was going up to Tohamsan Mountain where
Seokguram Grotto laid. It was part of Bulguksa temple complex,
located 4 km east of the temple. Arriving in the parking lot, we had to
walk up again around 500 m to reach the site. But no worries, the
way up there was so green, refreshing and convenient; very safe for
older people and children. There I met a little cute squirrel.
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There are few buses going to Yangdong Village, and the journey
takes about 40 minutes which cost 1450. After stopping at
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At that time, there was no entrance fee to this opened and peaceful
village. It is a Koreas traditional village from Joseon Dynasty. It has
around 160 old houses and buildings with tiled and thatched roofed,
which some of them are still used by local people. This village was
founded by Wolseong Son (of Gyeongju) whose daughter was
married to son of Yeogang Yi (of Yeongju) in the 15th century. Since
then, it has been home for these two high class clans.
The village follows the valleys typography and characteristic of
Joseon Dynasty society. Homes of Wolseong Son and Yeogang Yu
clans are located on the higher ground, while the lower class homes
are built on the lower ground. Some of important materials to see
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Mucheomdang
There was no specific map and guide, so I just walked around the
quiet village for about an hour. Be careful to tolerate, respect and
not disturb local people living there when exploring the village.
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National Museum
From Yangdong Village, I took the same bus to get back to the
Intercity Bus Terminal. It's time to visit interesting places inside the
town. My first stop was National Museum, because it's gonna be
closed at 6pm while some other places were opened until night.
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Banwolseong
Banwolseong (Half Moon Fortress) or Wolseong Palace was the
location of royal palace during Silla Dynasty. It is shaped like crescent
moon and located on top of the hill. Now the ruins of the palace are
just an empty lot with lush forest. There was a sign standing on this
site indicated it was one of the shooting locations of Sageuk Queen
Seondeok.
The only remaining structure in Wolseong site, other than small moat,
is Seokbingo, the ancient stone freezer. It was not from Silla period,
but it was built during Joseon Dynasty. It is a warehouse made of
stones and round dome roof to store ice in the winter and use it in
the summer. There are three ventilators on top of the ice storage to
maintain the internal temperature. I do not really understand how
this works, but wow, whoever made this was very genius.
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Cheomseongdae Observatory
Cheomseongdae is a star-gazing tower built during Queen Seondeok
rule, to observe the stars for predicting the weather. Remember
Queen Seondeok I mentioned earlier? She was the first female ruler
of Shilla Kingdom that ruled from 632 to 647. Therefore,
Cheomseongdae is considered as the oldest surviving observatory in
East Asia.
It was built in a cylinder shape piled up with 362 stones to make 27
levels, with a square entrance in the middle. Twelve of the layers are
below the window level and 12 are above. Its said that 362
represents the 362 days in lunar year, 27 represents Queen Seondeok
as the 27th ruler of Shilla Kingdom, and 12 represents the month of
the year. Wow, very well-thought ya! The entrance fee is 1000, and
its opened until 9 or 10pm in the evening. At night the tower looks
more beautiful with lights surrounding it.
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Local Foods
It was getting dark, but not too dark yet to see Anapji Pond in lights.
So I went around to get myself some foods for dinner. Across the
street of Cheomseongdae, on the way to Anapji Pond, there were
many restaurants and shops. I went to a souvenir shop to buy the
famous Gyeongju Bbang, breads filled with red bean.
I then entered the first restaurant that looks nice, and sat in one of
the empty tables. At that time there were about 10 other customers.
Suddenly one woman, perhaps the owner of the shop, approached
me and asking me in body language which somehow I understood as,
how many people? And when she knew I said one, only me, she
shook her head while talking in Korean as if saying, you cannot eat
here. I could not understand why, and I did not want to argue much.
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Namsan Mountain
The next morning, I checked out from hostel and went to Namsan
Mountain with all my belongings. Can you imagine? I am amazed now
how strong and practical I was back then: carrying only one backpack
for 3 days traveling and carrying it while hiking a mountain.
I took bus no.500 from the bus stop across the hostel to go to the
entrance of Namsan (san in Korean means mountain, so it is kinda
duplicated to call it Namsan Mountain). It cost 1450 using t-money
card. The mountain is located not far from the city, in the South of
Gyeongju. Across the entrance, there was a small shop selling some
snacks, towels and other hiking necessities. I bought some snacks
and a towel with Gyeongju map on it as a souvenir (and as a sweat
towel).
Another good thing in Gyeongju: no
entrance fee to hike Namsan. Just
like other mountains in Korea, the
hiking path/way was properly
maintained and designed well to
accommodate the hikers. The special
and unique thing about Namsan
compared to other mountains in
Korea is there are a lot of Buddhist
and Silla temples, shrines and
artifacts throughout the mountain.
They call it an open-air Silla Museum.
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The Ahjummas then opened up their picnic foods and drinks that
includes, of course, Makgeolli. Makgeolli is a light sweet alcohol
made from rice or wheat mixed, elderlys favorite drink. I couldnt
reject it when they offered me some, because yeah I admit I like it
too.
I told them I wanted to visit all relics showing in 1N2D show, but they
said some of them were located very high and not easy to reach.
They did not recommend me to hike there alone. Well yeah then, I
followed them to climb down back (*easily gave up*). I was already
satisfied going up until that peak and seeing some of the relics. Its
time to visit another places.
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Poseokjeong
On the foot of Namsan, there is a historic site called Poseokjong.
Poseokjong was a separate royal palace where the king held
banquets for nobles. The palace itself was gone but the abaloneshaped water canal made of granite remains. It was the canal where
the kings and nobles floated drinking cups and composed poetry.
Honestly I could not imagine the king and nobles sitting surrounding
this small water canal and citing poetry
Thats the only thing to see in this site. Its amazing how Korean
government really takes care of their historic sites even the tiny ones.
The entrance fee to go in this site was 500. It had a very big parking
lot where Namsan hikers usually parked their car.
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Najeong Well
About 2 bus stops from Poseokjeong, there is another historic site
called Najeong Well. The weather was good, the roads were green
and comfortable, and I still had the power left after hiking Namsan,
so I walked there by feet from Poseokjeong while enjoying the view.
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Like Poseokjeong, there was nothing much to see here either. It was
a big empty field with grasses that looked neglected. There were 2
boards displaying some pictures of the well near the main gate, and
then deep inside the field there was memorial stone erected near the
well among the pine trees.
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Bunhwangsa
From the Station, I took bus no.11 to Bunhwangsa. At that point I
knew bus no.10 and 11 were two famous buses which could take us to
many tourist attraction places. After more than 45 minutes journey, I
started to feel I took a wrong bus because I did not think it was that
far. I then realized the bus passed Bulguksa bus stop!
Apparently the bus no.10 goes through the attraction places in
downtown first before goes to Bulguksa in the outskirt of Gyeongju
city. While the bus no.11 is the opposite, it goes directly to faraway
Bulguksa first before goes to attraction places in downtown. My bus
trip to Bunhwangsa that day took 1 hour. It should be 15 or 20
minutes only, Zzzzz! But the bus fare was the same, 1450 using tmoney.
Mojeon Seoktap
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Hwangnyongsa
Just next to
Bunhwangsa,
there is a
remaining site of
Hwangnyongsa.
Hwangnyongsa
(Imperial Dragon
Temple) was once
one of the most
magnificent
monasteries in East Asia until it was razed by the Mongol invaders of
the 13th Century.
In this site we can only see an open field with some stones remains.
But in the old days, it looked something like this (taken from
http://san-shin.net/).
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The first story in the bottom represents Japan. The second one
represents China. The third one was Wuyue, an old Chinese kingdom.
The forth story was Jeju Island. The fifth one represents Baekje,
which is one of the three kingdoms in Korean Peninsula. The sixth
story was Mohe, an ancient Manchuria Kingdom in Northeast China.
The seventh one represents Khitan, Mongolia and Manchuria people.
The eighth story was Jucen, also Manchuria people. The ninth story
on the top represents Goguryeo Kingdom.
During Silla Kingdom, it was the nations largest temple and the
pagoda was the tallest structure in East Asia. The construction was
started during King Jinheung reign. In the beginning, it was intended
to build a new palace. But after a dragon was seen on the site, the
construction was changed into a temple instead, where monks
prayed for the nations and to impress foreigners.
It was designed by Architect Abiji from neighbor kingdom Baekje
which was conquered by Silla Kingdom. About 23 years after
completion of the pagoda, Queen Seondeok unified the Three
Kingdoms (Silla, Baekje and Gogurye); later, numerous scholars
pointed to the pagoda as a contributing factor in the unification.
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Back to Seoul
It was almost 4pm and I was hungry. I skipped lunch today because I
ate many snacks during hiking in Namsan and I was just too lazy to
eat. I went back to bus terminal to buy ticket back to Seoul, and
perhaps would grab some foods in the terminal while waiting for the
bus departure. But when I arrived in the ticket counter, apparently
the next bus was about to depart in 5 minutes and there was still seat
available. I decided to jump in this bus directly, and eat later in Seoul.
As I said in the first chapter, the bus fare was different. Now I got 4seats in a row bus (but fortunately I got 2 seats for my own) and paid
19,500. Nonetheless, for me it was as comfortable as the 3-seats in
a row bus I took from Seoul.
Thanks Gyeongju for the last 4 days! I really like all the cultural places
in this city. There are some places I have not gone yet, so I hope I
could visit Gyeongju again next time.
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Recommendation
So, based on my experience, what are the places in Gyeongju I
recommend to visit? It is very easy to answer: all of the places above!
I really like every place I have visited in Gyeongju, so I recommend all
of them. Hmmm maybe except Poseokjeong and Najeong Well,
because nothing much to see there. Climbing Namsan Mountain is
also not really necessary if you do not like hiking and do not like
following 1 Night 2 Days teams trail like me.
I also recommend renting a bicycle one whole day to explore
interesting sites in the downtown. They are located quite near each
other. If I rented a bike, I would be able to explore a lot more
attractions. See this map below, I missed site no.1, 2 and 3. Hope I
could visit them in my next visit to Gyeongju.
Anyeong!
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