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Royal Palace & Special Night Tour

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Tour issue

▶ Changdeok palace is replaced with Namsan Hanok village on Mon.
▶ Namsan Hanok Village is replaced with Cheonggye Stream on Mon.

Information

* Visit a place where traditional Korean-style building is preserved as it is and a village of Korean’s nicest traditional houses.

* Changdeok Palace
One of the 5 grand palaces built by the king of Joseon Dynasty

* Namsan Hanok Village
A place where Traditional Korean-style building is preserved as it is.


What you can expect

You can learn how the king and family lived and governed the whole nation from the palace while you learn the noble life from the traditional village at Bukchon. Now everyone can buy and sell houses and live in Bukchon but it used to be only for the nobles. Seoul City tour 3 offers all palace and Bukchon tours and gives you a lot of insight on the Chosun dynasty and its nobles. There is the large and modern Lotte department store and duty free shop which is located near the Palace and Bukchon. You can find not only luxury items with reasonable duty free prices but also a grocery market and great restaurants. Highlights - Historical, cultural and heritage tour of Seoul with a friendly guide and best logistics - Changdukgung, UNESCO world heritage site, The most beautiful palace in Asia - Bukchon Hanok traditional village where Chosun noble life is still breathing - World′s best Ginseng exhibition center or Amethyst exhibition shopping center - Seoul′s best Lotte duty free shopping center


Highlights

Even for Seoul residents or natives, Bukchon Korean traditional house town makes them wonder that it stills exists and is part of Seoul. As you may know, Seoul is full of modern and hi-tech and no one expects an old traditional town in the middle of the city. Bukchon Hanok village is the old town located between Gyeongbokgung palace and Jongmyo shrine and named as North village. It also has lower land in the south than in the north. This characteristic provides a great viewpoint where you can enjoy the landscape of Mt. Namsan and a forest of skyscrapers. This is the reason why noble families and high-ranking officials of the Josun dynasty lived in North village. Bukchon is also a hanok (traditional house) concentrated area and its alleys wind and twist between the houses. The traditional houses stand close together roof by roof. Everyday life in Hanok takes place not only within the houses but also outside of houses in the alleys. In alleys, adults have friendly conversations and the elderly take a rest and converse among themselves. There used to be only 30 traditional houses with black tile roofs left but people and government have tried to keep this town as original in form as possible so you can see how people used to live together for 600 years in the Chosun dynasty. Bukchon is called ""the street museum in the urban core"" having many historical spots and cultural heritage sites of the 600-year-old history of Seoul. For visitors, the alleys of Bukchon are an interesting window which exists into the ordinary lives of ordinary Koreans. We′ve traveled through life at high speed so far, so it′s time to give your soul a moment of rest a with slow and peaceful walk in Bukchon Hanok Village. There are 8 photo spots where you can take pictures from the 8 best photo angles of Bukchon, and you don′t want to miss the Choongang High School which is well known for the Korean drama, ""Winter Sonata,"" that Yong Jun Bae and Jiwoo Choi starred in.


Itinerary

Hotel → Changdeok Palace → Amethyst or Ginseng Center → Insadong → Namdaemun Market → Korean Wave Experience Zone → Namsan Cable Car → Dongdaemun or Hotel Sending
  1. 창덕궁11.jpg Changdoekgook Palace is the only place that is designated as a World Heritage site within Korean palaces.Changdeokgoong palace receives a lot of praises for its beauty and is well remained as its original state.Especially the back garden, which occupies over half of the palace, shows the beauty of the Korean traditional garden the most well.This place is where the kings of Joseon Dynasty had relived their stressed and spirits from state affairs in the past.Let us become like a king of the past during the Joseon times and take a stroll and rest around the backyard of the Changdoekgook Palace.
  2. 인삼 자수정5.png The colour of Amethyst is as unique as it is seductive, though in fact this gemstone of all gemstones is said to protect its wearer against seduction. Korean Amethyst is extravagance in violet since it has been formed from granite stone base since 5000 years. Moses described it as a symbol of the Spirit of God in the official robes of the High Priest of the Jews, and the Russian Empress Catherine the Great sent thousands of miners into the Urals to look for it. It was said to protect crops against tempests and locusts, bring good fortune in war and in the hunt, drive out evil spirits and inspire the intellect.  Ginseng is renowned for its effectiveness as a great healer for living ever so young.Especially if you eat ginseng when you lose your energy, it really helps to regain energy.Korea is acknowledged by the world because of the quality of ginseng as if it is the birthplace of ginseng.You can experience various kinds of ginseng products like gingersnap, extract, ginseng preserved in honey, and other great quality of products made in Korea.
  3. info_photo_18_1.jpg When foreign celebrities visit Korea, they always stop by this area; the closest Korean styled avenue, this is Insa-dong. Not only hundreds of art galleries are there but, dozens of traditional handcraft shop, antique art markets, and traditional tea houses. Because of the development of modern civilizations, many foreign Coffee shops and restaurants have launched around the place, yet this area unconventionally use Korean on their gate signs.
  4. 남대문시장4.jpg The oldest traditional market Namdaemun market has been originated from 14th year of king Taejong (1414). Merchants were allowed to open shops around Namdaemun which now became modern market. As is its long history, the scale is huge. 17 acre large size of land where 54 acre size of shopping flats are located. Not by only just size of the market but you will be surprised by the variety of what you can buy. Except the construction materials and furnitures, you can literally find everything. Food, medicine, fashion items and so on. Although the each shop occupies tiny area, they have unique echo system to sustain their business model. They buy directly things from manufactures or someone nearby to minimize distribution cost. And you can find many shops are selling their own products which means merchants are the manufacturers.
  5. info_photo_1644_1.jpg There is a  Hanryu Star Experience Zone where you can wear Hanryu star’s costume, the digital scope-vision, where you can take picture with Hanryu star on monitor, and TV show set zone, where you can see a filming site of a Hanryu TV show at this Hanryu Tourism Experience Center. You can feel the fever of Hanryu vividly at this place, over 2 million foreigners have visited this place yearly.

Why Cosmojin

Welcome to Cosmojin. Thanks for your interest and support for our service. Cosmojin travel has run Seoul daily city tour for more than 15 years. We developed the most attractive tour packages for visitors and will continue to create new programs to meet international traveler’s need. We help you to plan your own Seoul city tour with well-prepared theme and organized time table. You will find the most convenient way to enjoy Seoul with Cosmojin. We hire the best tour guides with good service experience especially for foreigners and they all get great feedbacks from the customers. They are all proud of what they do for visitors to make your every corner of visits memorable and meaningful. Transportation is another important things define travel quality. We provides brand new and clean cars with reasonable price for various tour packages. There is Korean saying ""Even a chance meeting is due to the Karma in a previous life."" We will serve you as our family and friend as we want you to remember the time with us as a great memory. There are so much fun in Seoul and we cannot wait to introduce all of them. It does not matter morning, afternoon or late night. You will be surprised what you can enjoy in every second. We look forward to meeting you soon. You will enjoy guided tour with interesting secret and meaningful information that you cannot find elsewhere. Aren’t you excited about the best guide, the best customer, the best place and the best tour course?


Tour Included

Guide, Transportation, Admission Fee, Hotel Pick up & Sending Service (in Seoul, Inside 4 Gate), Dinner

Tour Excluded

Personal Expense

Pick-up Service

1. Seoul (Inside 4 Gate)
2. President Hotel 1F, In the Lobby at 13:00 P.M
3. Pick-up service may be delayed due to traffic.

Sending Service

1. Dongdaemun
2. Hotel (Seoul, Inside 4 Gate)

How To Use


  1. Cancel by 18:00 one day before the scheduled tour: 100% REFUND

  2. Cancel after 18:00 one day before the tour date: cancellation fee of 100% of the tour cost.

  3. Cancel at or after the tour begins or no-show: NO REFUND


Note

1. Changdeok Palace will be replaced with Gyeongbok Palace on Mondays.
2. In case some sites of the tours are closed, a visit to alternative places will apply.
3. For your safety, stay with the group and follow the directions of the guide during a group tour.
4. Cosmojin cannot take responsibility for any injuries or losses incurred while on tour.

LIABLITY INSURANCE (CLAIMS-MAKD BASIS). 
Cosmojin is registered in liability insurance corresponding KRW 300,000,000 for travel business license.

  • The customers are not registered for accident insurance covering the medical expenses in case of accidents happening on the day of the event, so please check beforehand with the tour guide if customers are registered with travel insurance from homeland.
  • Please refer to the special terms and conditions on the website for insurance coverage.

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