Full-day UNESCO Heritage Tour including Suwon Hwaseong Fortress

Best day!

Our tour guide was Miss Orota she was very kind and made our whole experience one to always remember. She made us laugh and always feel comfortable. She was very attentive and informative. Gave us many recommendations/tips and answered all of our questions. We recommend her for any person who’s thinking about booking this trip. It was amazing. Very thankful for her guidance.

Great cultural tour just outside of Seoul

An excellent tour. Our tour guide Ms. Park was very organized, thorough, and informative. We learned so much about Korean culture from her and it all added to our tour. It was an extremely hot and humid day and she was so thoughtful to help us tolerate the temperatures. The lunch was delicious. Our driver was excellent. It was great to see more towns outside of Seoul,

Jackie was great!! The tour was awesome!

Jackie was the best guide! It felt like a real VIP experience. She was caring, informed, and helpful. A fair bit of walking was involved and it was a hot day, but she ensured and my 76yr old were well looked after. It’s also a stunning tour with some great secret touches.

Visiting some of South Korea’s cultural heritage sites

The view is great and our tour guide Sam is very knowledgeable. He takes great photos too. The walk along the fortress is just right with a few rest stop to enjoy the view of Hwaseong Fortress. Enjoyed delicious food at a traditional Korean restaurant. Learned a lot at Jongmyo shrine and marvel at the Changdeokgung palace structure, design and painting.

Best Tour We Experience in Seoul

They pick up from our Pacific hotel about 8 am, beside two of us, only one other lady for this tour, Yura Song our guide, very professional, speak perfect English and explain the history of each place we visit, she try her best to make sure we all enjoy the tour, visited all the places as mention, a big surprise is seeing martial art show was included, thanks to Yura, we sat at the front row to see it all, for us the show alone is worth for price of the ticket, then she took us to a very nice restaurant for lunch, we had a great time with this tour.

We entered our hotel lobby early and...

<p>We entered our hotel lobby early and three of them were already waiting for us--a driver, Jeanie our tour guide, and another lady who said little probably tour-guide-in-training. Good start.<br/> And it turned out we were their only guests, so it was essentially a private tour. <br/> Jeanie's English took some effort to understand/follow, but she was very patient with us. <br/> At first we worried we had inadvertantly signed up for a duplicate tour of the previous day's sites, but she took us to a different, temporary, Palace, a Shrine, and a different Village--this one was an actual village where people lived, not where the government moved houses from different places to make a village of five houses. We saw an actual Fortress still active, where we walked part of the grounds, then rode a trolley around the rest of it. We attended a Martial Arts show with a crowd of locals. We visited the Palace Museum on the grounds of the Palace we had toured the previous day and learned about the history of Korean royalty.</p> <p>Lunch was bibimbong--delicious! </p> <p>Best thing: no mandatory factory tours!</p>

We've had this tour on feb 04: cold...

<p>We've had this tour on feb 04: cold weather but fine and memorable day however, thanks to Jong as she was a nice and knowledgeable guide, telling us about Korean history and dynasties as well as rites and habits. <br/> We were on a three days stop in Korea en route to Fiji and Wallis Island from Paris.</p> <p>My wife ans I much enjoyed being on a private tour indeed. We could appreciate Hwaseong fortress and Haenggung Palace in the morning even although we had to pay attention to frozen soil in some places. We had the chance to watch a performance led by students in Joseon martial suits as we were on Saturday. <br/> Back to Seoul we could taste the most delightful bibimbap in our short journey to Korea, in a restaurant actually located just in front of our hotel, just in time to feel warmer and strenghtened before the afternoon sites: Bukchon Hanok village then the magnificent Changdeokgung Palace and Jongmyo Shrine.<br/> When Chung left us in Insa-Dong we still could talk with some students in that street and also with people demonstrating every Saturday in Myeong-Dong area.</p> <p>We highly recommend this day-tour and warmly acknowledge Jong. We now wish to learn more about culture of lovely and engaging South Korea.</p>

We were met at our hotel on time and...

<p>We were met at our hotel on time and we spent a day with our knowledgeable guide. An excellent tour, we saw the Suwon Fortress, the Palaces, the Shrine and walked around the Bukchon Hanok Village.An excellent bibimbap lunch at a local restaurant was a bonus.</p>

韓国の世界遺産、建物の歴史、文化的背景に興味がある一定年齢層以上向け

古い町並み風景を残す北村観光からはじまり、世界遺産に登録されている施設を回るバスツアー。日本語での丁寧な説明もあり、効率的に回れました。やや、歩く距離はあるので、足下は履き慣れたもので。韓国には何度も足を運んでいるものの、歴史遺産等を巡る機会はなかったので、建物や風景もさることながら、その背景や歴史を知ることもできたことは学びのひとつとなったツアーでした。レジャー的要素はないので、韓国の世界遺産、建物の歴史、文化的背景に興味がある一定年齢層以上向けという印象。 なお、ガイドの方の日本語はわかりやすく、丁寧。バスのドライバーも、地点ごとの乗り降りもあまり待たされることなくスムーズ。運転も丁寧で好感。