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JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

I love mountains and hiking and so far I've only been to the one closest to me (soyosan) and it was sweet. Looking for recommendations.

Which ones have people liked?

P.S.
If anyone's done dobongsan how was it?

I-am-me · Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Location: Hermit Kingdom

Mt. Chirisan is pretty nice. Lots of trails if you like hiking. Not very tourist friendly though in terms of information.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Anyone else? Where is this place, and is the Korean spelling 키리산?

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

http://tour2korea.com. Has all the info you want.

I've been to around 80% of the National Parks here, and a fair few provincial parks as well. My top 3 NPs thus far:

Jirisan

Naejangsan

Songnisan

And yeas, I've been to Seoraksan, and it was waaaaaaaaay to crowded, kitschy and noisy for my liking. Same with Bukhansan.

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

I've been to almost all of them. Here are my pics:

Songnisan is one of my fav's...perhaps because it's pretty close to my house, plus they have a little hut you can stay in on the mountain.

Jirisan is great for backpacking...you can go hut to hut along the ridge.

Sereoksan is nice because of the ocean/mountain thing all in one.

Deogyusan is very beautiful, plus there's a hut up there as well.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Cool, thanks guys!

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Kwannaksa...right in Seoul at Sadang station.

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

If you're going to try to go to a mountain this time of year, go to Naejungsan.

It's beautiful there right now with the maple leaves changing color.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Any mountain is good....

My favorites would be seoraksan(only during the week though) and Juwangsan.

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

Tobongsan is on the border between Uijeombu and Seoul. Its got plenty of great Mokkoli places nice Possam and Tubu too

sojourner1 · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

I really enjoy mountain hiking in Korea too. I would like to learn how you get to those other places without a car and a map. I hiked most everything around Changwon and found it spectacular and wish to do some more elsewhere.

jlb · Joined: 18 Sep 2003

Get a Lonely Planet. It'll give you the basic information about getting to the mountains as well as a bit about the possible hikes and a a small map. Once you get to the mountain, you can get better information.