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A path to a village house with the hills behind — Hahoe Folk Village, Andong
Hahoe Folk Village, Andong · Photo Austin Curtis / Unsplash

Clan villages and Confucian academies · two nights

Sleep on a heated floor

Best months
May, Oct
Nights
2
Getting here
KTX-Eum to Andong, then a car verify
Pairs with
Gyeongju, Seoraksan
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Andong and Hahoe 안동 · 하회 · The inland north-east

Hahoe is a clan village in a bend of the Nakdong River, still lived in by descendants of the Ryu family verify. Its thatched and tiled houses are UNESCO-listed verify, and several of them take guests.

Two nights here is the slow middle of a trip. You sleep on a yo mattress on an ondol floor, warmed from below, and wake to a courtyard and a river.

36° 32′ N, 128° 31′ E

The village by the river

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A path to a village house with the hills behind — Hahoe Folk Village, Andong
Hahoe Folk Village, Andong · Photo Austin Curtis / Unsplash

Walk the lanes after the day visitors leave, then cross to Buyongdae cliff for the view back over the roofs.

The river bend

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The river bending past Hahoe — Hahoe Village, Andong
Hahoe Village, Andong · Photo Jane Kim / Unsplash

The Nakdong loops almost all the way round the village. Walk the sandbank and the pine grove along it in the early morning, when mist sits on the water.

The Hahoe mask dance is performed on some days verify schedule. The masks were carved from alder; a carver shows how.

What we’d do

Private, with a guide where it helps. Times are a guide.

Village roofs at dusk — Traditional village, Andong

A bendin theNakdongriver

Andong at dusk

36° 32′ N, 128° 31′ E

Photo Mathew Schwartz / Unsplash

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