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 Photo essay: Cheongdo to
Goryeong
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(80km,
50mi) Mostly flat agricultural valleys, but a couple of hills.
Points of Interest: potato country, petroglyphs, Goryeong market |
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Anti-Compromise Stele: The monument in the lower
right corner of the picture was erected for the expulsion of foreign armies
(presumably Japanese and Chinese) in 1886 and 1891. It reads, "If we do
not fight against the Western barbarians, we have no other choice than coming to
terms with them. Compromising with them means selling out our nation." |
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It is worth noting the land use pattern in this and
most other photos. The valley floor is used for agriculture. The
hillsides are forested. Living areas are often in the transition between
the two, compact and often even more dense because of multi-story buildings.
These land use pattern are religiously followed. Even small towns will
often have significant amounts of residential high rise development. |
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A large collection of family graves and tombs: Graves tend to be isolated or in
small family groups. This site is unusual for this area because of
the size and number of groups of graves. There is also a lot of monuments
suggesting a wealthy family that has been in a prominent position for a long
time. |
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 The hills may look big, but
the valley floor is flat. In this section we got to enjoy a
substantial distance on the valley floor. |
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A good sign of a low traffic road is rice and other
produce drying on the road. |
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For the more ambitious, the is a side
trip to Chang-nyeong. The tumuli (tombs) there belongs to the kings of Bihwa
Gaya and are spread around the Changnyeong Museum. There are over 150
tombs in the area. Tombs were excavated under Japanese Rule and again in
1992. Most of the tombs were built in the 5th or 6th century (pre-Unified
Shilla Kingdom). |
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Student in a school yard. Schools are
consistently orderly, clean, modern and well maintained. |
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 One tourist map described the are east
of Goryeong as potato country. Right on cue we saw fields of potatoes and people harvesting
potatoes.It is in this district that you cross the
Nakdong River route from Daegu to Namji. |
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Petroglyphs at Yangjeondong: These were
made from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. Though much of the site is
worn, it comprises four triple concentric circles, twenty-nine cross patterns
and seventeen drawings of human-like faces. Concentric circles are common
is shamanistic systems. |
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A group of women walking the road picking up
garbage. Generally there is only a miniscule amount of litter in towns and along
the roads. The towns are pretty much swept everyday and evidently there is
an organized effort to pick up trash along rural roads as well. |
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Entering Goryeong from the east, is a fancy and significant pedestrian /
bicycle bridge. After getting users across the river, there is an
underpass that takes them safely under an expressway and into the street
grid of the town. From that point it is not always so bicycle or
pedestrian friendly. |
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 Shops
and markets tend to be very specific: the pan shop has a lot of variety of
pans, the clock shop has time pieces from wristwatches
to digital clocks to grandfather clocks, and the garlic woman has a lot of
garlic. But this doesn't even scratch the surface of the kinds of
merchant that there are in town. |
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Cheongdo
 Haeinsa |
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Gimcheon
Hoeyang |
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The hills may look big, but
the valley floor is flat. In this section we got to enjoy a
substantial distance on the valley floor.
One tourist map described the are east
of Goryeong as potato country. Right on cue we saw fields of potatoes and people harvesting
potatoes.
Shops
and markets tend to be very specific: the pan shop has a lot of variety of
pans, the clock shop has time pieces from wristwatches
to digital clocks to grandfather clocks, and the garlic woman has a lot of
garlic. But this doesn't even scratch the surface of the kinds of
merchant that there are in town. 
