CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 187 km round trip from Seongnam-si - roughly 3 h 42 in the saddle. On the way it passes Donggureung Cluster, Olleung Cluster, Jangneung Cluster and back through Olleung Cluster. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In the south of Seoul, wedged between highways, apartment towers and the Daemosan hills, a forest of oak and pine hides two royal tombs of the Joseon dynasty. Heolleung is the tomb of King Taejong, the third king of Joseon, who ruled in the early fifteenth century, and his queen Wongyeong, and nearby lies Inneung, the tomb of King Sunjo and his queen from the nineteenth century. Together they form one of the clusters of the Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty, listed by UNESCO in 2009.
Read the complete Heolleung Cluster write-up.
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Heolleung Cluster is where the day begins. Next is Donggureung Cluster.
Nine kings and ten queens of the Joseon dynasty lie at Donggureung, in the city of Guri, just north-east of Seoul. The name means the Eastern Nine Tombs, and it is the largest royal burial ground of the dynasty, which ruled Korea for over five centuries from 1392 to 1910. The tombs are spread across a wooded hillside, each a grassy mound surrounded by stone figures of officials and animals, set according to the rules of geomancy with a mountain behind and water in front.
Read the complete Donggureung Cluster write-up.
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Donggureung Cluster comes up 27 km in. Next is Olleung Cluster.
Seoul's royal tombs are not all in the city centre, and the ones on this stretch lie in the green country just to the north-west, in a belt of forest, farmland and expanding suburbs that stretches towards the border. The cluster on our list is one of several groups of Joseon dynasty burial mounds, and the nearest sizeable town is Uijeongbu, nearly half a million people, with Goyang just beyond it.
Read the complete Olleung Cluster write-up.
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53 km in you reach Olleung Cluster. Next is Jangneung Cluster.
North-west of Seoul, close to where the Imjin river flows into the Han and the demilitarised zone cuts the Korean peninsula in two, lies a royal tomb: Jangneung, the resting place of King Injo, who ruled Joseon in the seventeenth century, and his queen. Injo's reign was marked by invasions from the Manchu, and he was forced to humiliate himself before the Qing emperor in 1637, a defeat that still resonates in Korean memory. His tomb, like the other Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty, inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2009, is a grassy mound on a hillside, guarded by stone figures of officials, warriors and animals, with a T-shaped shrine below.
Read the complete Jangneung Cluster write-up.
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Jangneung Cluster, about halfway. Next is back through Olleung Cluster.
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Read the complete Olleung Cluster write-up.
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back through Olleung Cluster sits at 107 km, about halfway. Next is back through Donggureung Cluster.
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Read the complete Donggureung Cluster write-up.
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back through Donggureung Cluster comes up 133 km in. Next is Heolleung Cluster.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Heolleung Cluster write-up.
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Heolleung Cluster closes the day.
Heolleung Cluster → Donggureung Cluster is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Donggureung Cluster → Olleung Cluster is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Olleung Cluster → Jangneung Cluster is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jangneung Cluster → back through Olleung Cluster is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Olleung Cluster → back through Donggureung Cluster is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Donggureung Cluster → Heolleung Cluster is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.