Full Day- Essential Seoul City Tour & Gourmet Tour(including Lunch and Dinner)
This tour is for tourist who want to enjoy culture, heritage and life of Korean. We will visit the most popular attractions in Seoul. Furthermore, tasting of popular Korean foods provides more pleasure to you. You can enjoy city tour and Gourmet Tour for a day. We will visit Gyeongbokgung royal palace, Changing ceremony of Royal Guards, Bukchon Hanok Village, Insadong and etc. We will visit quality local restaurant, and taste Jinseng Chicken soup for lunch. For vegetarian, there are nice vegetarian restaurant. During the tour, we also enjoy Korean snacks or tea. For dinner, we will taste various kinds of street foods at Kwangjang market. For all above mentioned tour activities and foods are included in our tour and you don't need to reserve separate tickets for city tour and food tour. Our professional licensed English speaking guide supply hotel pick-up and drop-off service at any hotel in Seoul for customer's convenience.
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Full Day- Essential Seoul City Tour & Gourmet Tour(including Lunch and Dinner)
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What's included in Full Day- Essential Seoul City Tour & Gourmet Tour(including Lunch and Dinner)
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Gyeongbokgung Palace
Gyeongbokgung palace is the first palace built in 1395 out of five palaces in Seoul in Joseon dynasty. This palace was built by fenhshui which is a traditional geological theory, The name of Gyeongbokgung palace means new dynasty would have big blessing and prospered forever. Geunjeongjeon Hall and Gyeonghoeru Pavilionare are national treasures in the palace, Geunjeongjeon Hall is the main building of the palace, most of major event like king’s inauguration ceremony and reception of ambassadors from foreign countries were held at this building. Gyeonghoeru Pavilion was used for the purpose of banquet and entertainment. Before tour of Gyeongbokgung palace, we will watch the Changing ceremony of Royal guards. Gyeongbokgung palace and changing ceremony of royal guard are closed on every Tuesday, so we will visit the other royal palace, Changdeokgung palace, every Tuesday. Changdeokgu palace is very beautiful palace and is listed on UNESCO cultural heritage.
National Folk Museum of Korea
You will see how the Korean lived from the birth to grave at this museum.The National Folk Museum of Korea is a museum that represents daily life and culture of Korea and is visited by more than two million people every year, and provide educational and cultural opportunities to better understand and experience the traditional Korean lifestyle.
Bukchon Hanok Village
Bukchon(buk means north, chon means village) is a traditional residential village forming with Korea’s traditional house, Hanok(Tiled roof house). As you see, because of rapid industrialization of Korea, most Korean live in apartment and modified western style house, so it is very hard to see the traditional Korean Hanok village nowadays. This Bukchon Hanok village is one of traditional villages maintaining traditional Hanok style. Because this Bukchon was near the palace, and located at a good place according to fengshui, a theory of divination based on topography, this was a good residential area for royal family and high officials for 500 years of Joseon dynasty. Nowadays, Bukchon is one of famous tourist attraction in Seoul. Tourist can enjoy and feel the history of Bukchon , various cultural experience like tea ceremony, calligraphy, handcrafts and etc. at Bukchon.
Inclusions
- Private transportation
- During the tour, we will taste traditional Korean snacks or teas.
- All Fees and Taxes
- We will taste Jinseng Chicken Soup(Michelin Restaurant) for lunch. We will visit not a group tourist restaurants but a popular local restaurants. A nice vegetarian restaurant is also available.
- English speaking guide with official tour guide license
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- We will have a dinner at Gwangjang market with various traditional street foods, and Korean rice wine( makkŏlli) will be served together.
- We pick up and drop off at customer's hotel in seoul.
- Gratuities(optional)
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 10 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
We pick up customers at any hotel in downtown Seoul. Or, we can meet customers at any place if customers prefer.
