Day	Area/Meals	Itinerary
Full Day	Buyeo & Gongju	Hotel -> Buso Fortress (Baekhwa Pavillion, Gosansa Temple, Nakhwaam Rock) -> Baekma River Cruisng -> Buyeo National Museum -> Gongsan Palace with changing guardian ceremony -> Ancient Tomb of King Muryeong -> Hotel

Looking for Historical City of BC 500~700
In the Heart of Baekje Buyeo, the Last Capital of a Mighty Nation in the areas of Gongju, and BUyeo, historical relics from the Baekje Dynasty still remain as the main attractions.

Features

Gongju National Museum Gongju National Museum manages and preserves the cultural treasures excavated from northern Chungcheongnam-do. It takes special care of cultural treasures discovered from Muryeong Royal Tomb in 1971. The Muryeong Royal Tomb is the tomb of King Muryeong (501~523) and his queen consort from the Baekje Period. You can view most of the relics from the Tomb at the museum. The current buildings were specifically built to exhibit those relics. Gonju Museum has excavated many other relics and sites. The exhibit hall constitutes of 2 parts. It exhibits over 1000 relics, including National Treasure No.19 and No.4. The first room of the 2nd floor displays the relics from the Muryeong Tomb. It is quite a treat to view the golden belt, bracelet and bronze mirrors. There is even a full-scale model of the Muryeong Tomb for you to view. The 2nd room of the first floor displays the relics from the Chungcheongnam-do area by chronology. Outside in front of the main building is a garden where you can go to after the viewing inside the museum, and you can see many relics which were excavated from the whole Gongju district. An eye-catching site is the two large stone bowls, used long ago to store water. Between the relics, there are dozens of golden pine, nut pine and cherry trees planted, which are over 70 years old. It is an ideal place for visitors to rest. If you are looking for souvenirs, there is a Souvenir Shop where you will find many cute souvenirs. Songsan-ri Ancient Tomb(Burial Mounds and Tomb of King Muryeong) The Songsan-ri Burial Mounds and Tomb of King Muryeong(reign 462-523) contains representative relics of the Baekje period (234~678). The Songsan-ri Burial Mounds have graves of kings from the period when Baekje's capital was Gongju, and it is believed to contain 10 such graves. Only seven graves have been discovered so far. The biggest attraction of Songsan-ri Burial Mounds is the wall painting drawn on the number 6 tomb – it is the only art of its kind in the world, drawn from the way the bricks were laid to create the wall. The tomb is shaped like a long tunnel, the top rounded like a dome. There are pictures of fire-breathing dragons on the tomb. Only the parts of the wall where the pictures were to be drawn had earth coated on, and on that earth was drawn Sasindo – the blue dragon, white tiger, red peacock, and black turtle. The popular Tomb of King Muryeong is the 7th tomb, and it is the resting place for Baekje's 25th King Mu-Ryeong and his Queen. This tomb was discovered accidentally when installing pipes to prevent tombs number 5 and 6 from being flooded. Tomb of King Muryeong was found to be unusual in the way it was built and what it contained. It was built with bricks like the 6th Tomb, and many national treasures were found inside, supplying scholars studying Baekje culture with precious research material. There were 108 kinds of artifacts found inside, totaling 2,906 items altogether. 12 of these artifacts were designated National Treasures. They are all on display at the Gongju National Museum. Some of the representative treasures are the crowns worn by the King and the Queen, gold decorations for the crowns, gold earrings, necklaces, bronze mirrors, pillows, and foot pillows. Recently the tomb was permanently sealed to protect the treasures. You can look at the miniature of the tomb, however, an exact duplicate of the original, in the basement of the Gobungun Building.  Buso Fortress The Fortress to defend the ancient capital Buyeo.

Remarks

Extra Charge of KRW 30,000 at weekend