Wild Korea

The park is just a short taxi or bus ride from downtown Gumi. There’s a tourist village with dozens of restaurants – that’s just above a lake where one can rent duck boats. Above the tourist village, the road leads to a parking lot for the cable car. Here one pays 600 won (about 60 cents U.S.) for adult admission. A short walk up to the cable car, and from here or from the upper terminus, trails continue on up to the summit. Geumo Mountain is 976.6 meters high. Besides its natural features, the park also features several temples. One, Haeunsa, is just a short walk from the upper cable car terminus. Most of these photos were taken in January; a couple in the Spring.

Looking up to Geumo Mountain ( 금오산 ) from the bottom

The trail from the parking lot winds up through the forest.

This dorky-looking jangseung ( 장승 ) is just below the lower cable car terminal:

This cable car (one of two) is sliding into the lower terminus:

Cable car ( 꼐이블까 ) climbing up the slope

Part of Haeunsa ( 해운사 ) temple

The muscian and the soldier were painted onto the entry gate to Haeunsa.

These lanterns were photographed in the Spring, during the Buddha’s Birthday season

Old and new statues at Haeunsa

Large buddha

Daehye waterfall ( 대혜폭포 ), here frozen in winter, is a short distance up from the temple

Down at the bottom again, we find a turtle fountain.

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