Best places: Buddhist temples in Jeongseon-eup, South Korea

Elaborate Buddhist shrine from 676 AD, backed by hills & known for its fall foliage.

👍 The place is very nice. I traveled from Seoul to Jimbo terminal in bullet train KTX, took cab to bus stop and then took bus to Sangwonsa temple. You have to walk to reach to temple and from there if you want trekking, then you can climb to Birobong peak. There are many other treks, you can get the i...

Ancient Buddhist temple featuring an ornate pagoda & a museum for sacred art & artifacts.

👍👍 날씨까지 너무 좋았어요. 어느방향으로 보더라도 너무너무 멋있어요. 다음에 또 가고싶어요.

👍👍 It is not a magnificent or gorgeous temple, but a quiet...it is such a temple..It is a temple with very convenient accessibility at the end of the valley..We recommend that you visit once to see the Sumano pagoda and the Buddha.

👍👍 I stayed here 9 years ago in my first ever trip outside of Europe. Did a volunteering with several other volunteers around the world, exchanging cultures, helping re-building the meditation path and doing a temple-stay for two weeks. It also was my first contact with Buddhism and veganism. There i...

👍👍 This place is an experience like no other. Just be prepared for a hike because the incline is very very real at this place. The temple buildings are flawless and the details are so captivating. I would recommend going in April because the weather is perfect and the flowers that bloom during the spri...

😠 I don't really want to recommend it. The beach in front of Gamgusa Temple is cluttered with trash. Is the energy of Hamchusa due to the weather or time? It was so creepy that I wanted to get out of that place quickly.

👍👍 In Manggyeongsa Temple, there is a Yongjeong called the spring water located at the highest point in Korea. At the top of Taebaeksan Mountain, there are the Cheonjaedan, where a sacrifice is held in the sky, and the monument of King Danjong who became a mountain god above the temple.