CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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144 km from Gyeongju to Gyeongju, about 3 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple, Yangdong Cluster: Donggangseowon Confucian and back through Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The nearest town is Gyeongju itself, a city of about a hundred and fifty thousand with fuel stations, noodle shops and a reputation as a museum without walls.
Read the complete Sansong write-up.
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Sansong is where the day begins. Next is Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple.
Bulguksa sits on the lower slopes of Tohamsan, a forested mountain above Gyeongju, and it is the most famous Buddhist temple in Korea. It was largely built in the eighth century under the Silla kingdom, at a time when Gyeongju was its capital and one of the largest cities in Asia, and tradition credits the work to the minister Kim Dae-seong. Stone staircases and terraces from that time still carry the wooden halls, which have been rebuilt after fires and wars, most destructively during the Japanese invasions of the 1590s.
Read the complete Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yangdong Cluster: Donggangseowon Confucian.
Yangdong is a village that still lives like the old Korea of the Joseon dynasty. It lies in a valley north of Gyeongju, in a bowl of low wooded hills, and it is home to some of the finest surviving traditional houses in the country, hundreds of tiled-roof and thatched homes spread over the slopes. Two great clans have dominated it for centuries, the Wolseong Son and the Yeogang Yi, and their families built the large tile-roofed mansions on the high ground with the thatched houses of the tenants below. The neat layout follows the principles of feng shui: the main houses face south with a hill behind and a stream in front. UNESCO listed Yangdong along with Hahoe in 2010 as the Historic Villages of Korea.
Read the complete Yangdong Cluster: Donggangseowon Confucian write-up.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Yangdong Cluster: Donggangseowon Confucian. Next is back through Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple, late in the day. Next is Sansong.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sansong write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sansong. That is the ride.
Sansong → Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple → Yangdong Cluster: Donggangseowon Confucian is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yangdong Cluster: Donggangseowon Confucian → back through Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple → Sansong is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.