Gyeongju's Toham-san 토함산 Eastern sacred "Breathing" Mountain Host to Bulguk-sa, Seokgul-am, Girim-sa and more |
Toham-san's Bulguk-sa, one of Korea's top-20 temples, seen from the sky |
the world-famous Seokgul-am grotto-temple complex, seen from the sky |
beautiful sunrise photo of Munmu-daewang-neung by Jason Teale that bridge is new... |
The gigantic but lonely twin-pair of pagodas [ssang-tap] of Gam-eun-saji. This was once a grand temple overlooking the Munmu-daewng-neung, huge and active from around 700 CE until the early 1200s (when the Mongols sacked and burned it), but now these towers are all that remain -- the largest extant Shilla pagodas. Many relics found here are in the Gyeongju National Museum. |