Daytrip to Ganghwa Island (January 27, 2013)
Choji-jin Deokjin-jin Gwangseongbo Gapgot Heights Poongmul Market Goryo Palace Site North Gate of the Fortress Wall Ganghwa Anglican Church Other Scenes
Monthly Archive: February 2013
Daytrip to Ganghwa Island (8 of 9) – Ganghwa Anglican Church
Western missionaries founded this church in 1900. What's striking about it is that the outside is designed in a Korean traditional style, while the inside looks like a Western church. (Visit in Google Maps.)
Daytrip to Ganghwa Island (7 of 9) – North Gate of the Fortress Wall
Every palace needs a fortress to protect it and this is the north gate area of the fortress that surrounds the Goryo Palace and other important spots for the royals on Ganghwa Island for many years. From the top of the hill, we could see where the Yeomha Strait meets...
Daytrip to Ganghwa Island (6 of 9) – Goryo Palace Site
This spot was the capital of Goryo for while during the 1200s while the main capital at Gaeseong was being overrun by Mongols. It was also attacked by the Chinese in the 1600s. Not much is left, including the national library from which the French took what they could and...
Daytrip to Ganghwa Island (5 of 9) – Poongmul Market
This market on the edge of the main urban area on Ganghwa Island opens every five days. We just happened to show up on the day it was open. As they say, "가는 날이 장 날이다" (It's always market day when one visits.) This Korean saying normally has the nuance...
Daytrip to Ganghwa Island (4 of 9) – Gapgot Heights
There are military garrisons positioned all around Ganghwa Island, but the ones along this strait got the most historical action because this waterway was the gateway to Seoul (called Hanyang at the time). Gapgot Heights protected the island going back all the way to the Mongol invasion of the 1200s....
