Jirisan National Park — Attraction in Hwagae-myeon

Completed the multi-day ridge hike solo from East to West, traversing Jirisan National Park in 3D2N as a foreigner.

While I was hiking alone, I met several very nice hikers that offered food to me and we had very nice conversations. Definitely was not expecting this - I absolutely love the Korean hiking culture.

I wrote a guide on how you could stay overnight on Korea's mountains/national parks on my blog/socials and more information on the hike from East to West (compared to the usual West to East route)!

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Thank you Jirisan National Park and the hikers for being so welcoming (despite the first two days of rain and...

The scenery of Jirisan National Park is breathtaking! It views are amazing, and it’s such a great place to go hiking! My friends and I did the full route for 4-day-long trip with 3 night in the shelters. It was an amazing experience, but also a little bit of a challenge, because we had to carry all our food in our backpacks during the whole trip, what accounted for around 7-10kg on our backs. But it was absolutely worth it!!! I do recommend it to anyone, even those who are not really into hiking, because this area can change...

Jirisan is a massive, unforgiving, utterly brutal mountain to hike. And I loved every painstaking, and breathtaking moment of it. I unfortunately did not start at the beginning (miscommunication on my part) but somewhere in the middle which was Hadong village. The ascent to the trail as well as the ridge was challenging enough, but when you get to the peak, it gets darn near completely vertical. It's worth it though. Absolutely the best hike I...