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Sports Traveler and the Korean Tourism Organization Exclusive Tours
 
Sports Traveler announces our partnership with the Korean Tourism Organization to provide our clients with Pre and Post Summer Games Tours to Korea during the Beijing Olympic Games. Travel packages include lodging in Seoul, Korea, guided tours and tour add-on's.

Seoul, Korea is considered to be the gateway of Asia. Many flights into China for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games will connect through Seoul. Tours offer clients and opportunity to "stop over" in Seoul and experience all that Korea has to offer.

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"Seoul Stop Over Special" Tour Package
  • Three nights at hotel accommodations at your choice of Sofitel Ambassador Hotel (4 star) or JW Marriott (5 star)
  • Daily breakfast for two daily
  • Round trip airport-hotel transfer by a private car
  • One day private tour car tour of Seoul with an English speaking guide
  • All taxes and service fees

Prices starting from: $1099 per person
(based on double occupancy)
 

Tour Sample Itinerary

Day 1 Seoul
Arrive at Luncheon Int’l Airport. Transfer to hotel in Seoul (70~80 min drive)

Day 2 Seoul

Full Day City Tour:
Gyeongbok Palace
The 40- acre Gyeongbok Palace was built in 1394, the third year of the Joseon Dynasty.
Geunjungjon, the largest and most impressive building in the palace, served as a throne room and an audience hall. Gyeonghoeru, a spacious two-story pavilion, overlooks a picturesque man-made pond just northwest of the throne hall.
National Folk Museum is in the Gyeongbok Palace complex. It explains the religious rituals, housing customs, household tools and implements, food and social dynamics of traditional Korean life.
Insadong Alley is where you can experience the traditional culture of Korea while remaining in the heart of the city.
Seoul Tower is the first attraction of its kind in Korea. It boasts a height of 236.7m and is an additional 243m above the sea level. Seoul Tower is equipped with 2~3 stories of observatories and two revolving restaurants with a 360-degree view on the first and fifth floors.
Namdaemun Market located in the very center of Seoul, is the largest traditional market in Korea selling clothing, shoes, house wares, foodstuff, flowers, tools, wigs, glasses, accessories of every kind, gifts, sporting goods, electric appliances, furniture etc.

Day 3 Seoul
AM Tour Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Imjingak Park, 3rd Infiltration Tunnel, Dora Observation Post, Dora Station
57 years have passed since the outbreak of the Korean War, and the drawing of the 155 mile cease fire line from the East Sea to the Yellow Sea has created the Demilitarized Zone. Symbolizing both war and peace, the DMZ is a place where time has come to a stop. Today, it is a heaven for rare animals, birds, and plants in one of few places where nature remains undisturbed
PM Free Time

Day 4 Seoul
Free time until departure
Transfer to Luncheon Int’l Airport for Departure

 

Additional Seoul Tours available:
Nanta Performance:
Nanta is non-verbal comic Cooking performance.
This wild and funny percussion performance has won international awards and acclaim.

Jeongdong
Theater traditional performance with local dinner:
Korea’s first repertory theater. Main programs in clued the drum dance, panasori, Sanjo hapju, Samullori, the sword dance and fan dance.

Jump:
Jump is the latest hit musical arts-comedy to feature on London West End 2006 and sell-out show Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005. An Innovative fusion of martial arts and comedy, Jump revolves around an anything but-typical Korean family. From the comically authoritative grandfather and the Tae-Kwon-do chopping mother to the lovely yet deadly daughter and two fumbling burglars. This is martial arts.

The Han River Evening Cruise:
A symbol of Seoul, the Han River runs through Seoul east to west, with an average depth of 2.5m and width of 1,000m. Splitting the crashing waves coming down the Han-Gang(River), the sightseeing boats with comfortable atmospheres offer leisurely rides in the fresh air.

Temple stay:
A Temple Stay is a cultural-experience program designed to help people better understand Buddhism in Korea. Temple stay offers various kinds of practicing methods, such as Yebul (ceremonial service involving chanting), Chamseon(Zen meditation), Dahdoh(tea ceremony) etc. Participants can find their 'true self' harmonized with nature while staying at a temple for a while.

 


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