Posts Tagged ‘cheongju’

We embarked on an expedition to Cheongju only because it’s really close to Daejeon. It’s 30 minutes away on the Mugunghwa, the slowest train in South Korea.

We hadn’t made a plan on where to go once we got there, but that isn’t any different from 90% of the places we go.

When we hopped off the train, I looked in my Lonely Planet Korea and figured we should go check out an old fortress wall called Sangdang Sanseong. We took a taxi from the Cheongju train station and got there in about 20 minutes.

We walked along the fortress wall for about an hour and took tons of pictures in the steamy hot Korean sun. Then we found a bus stop and took the next bus back towards civilization.

During the taxi ride out to Sangdang Sanseong, we saw an area full of museums and decided to get of the bus at a stop near those and check them out.

The museums consisted of dinosaurs, old gems and stones, the solar system, a greenhouse, old tribal masks, and halloween masks.

I found Cheongju to be a great way to spend a lazy summer Saturday. I know of a few more sites that we missed out on like the Cheongju Zoo, the Korean Craft Museum, Heungdeok Seongdang, Yongusaji Iron Flagpole, and Jungang Park. (Read about them here and here and here.) If any of you have checked out these places, let us know what you thought about them in the comments!