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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: Changdeokgung - great palace in Seoul |
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Changdeokgung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changdeokgung
Anyone visiting Seoul should really check out this palace (and the ajoining garden). You have to schedule it for a tour (Korean, English, or Chinese), but it's worth it IMO. I took one of my visiting buds there last weekend and thought I'd share some pics.
Anyone else been there? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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I think I've been there 4 times now.
It's a good 3 hour walkaround, but it's way over-restored. It's hard to know which parts are original and which were built in 1963, whatever. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
I think I've been there 4 times now.
It's a good 3 hour walkaround, but it's way over-restored. It's hard to know which parts are original and which were built in 1963, whatever. |
I enjoy the walk - but would love it if the tour guide (usually thesame girl in all the times that I've been there) could give some more (interesting) historical anecdotes. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| That's a very fetching beard you have there CC. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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If that's the one with the Secret Garden, then yeah, I like that one. It's too bad they don't allow you to stay too long there, though. I like the King's Lake in Kyeongbok Palace, too.
The other one, by City Hall (Deoksu Palace), the one with the "dump your lover" sidewalk, is not that great. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| You can go there without tours on Thursdays during spring, summer, and fall for 15,000 won. You have run of most of the grounds. |
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