Ulsan Tour

Gajisan Mountain displays attractive scenery throughout the four seasons, which is one of the twelve sights of Ulsan. Especially, the mountain offers visitors a splendid view in spring as the royal azalea habitat (Natural Monument No. 462) paints the slopes red. The approach to the mountain is decorated with Seongnamsa Temple, several mysterious stones and rocks such as Ssalbawi Rock and Gwibawi Rock, and a silver grass field, and the ridge leading to Unmunsan Mountain adds more delight to your mountain climbing.

This hot springs for families offers various soaking options that will relax your body and soothe the fatigue of hiking.

Ganwoljae Pass lies at the foot of Ganwolsan Mountain and Sinbulsan Mountain. It is a popular silver grass habitat, and the only place around Busan and Ulsan where you can see a sea of clouds. It offers various attractions including different festivals and events.

When the silver grass is at its peak, the Ulju Odyssey music festival is held in a silver grass field on Sinbulsan Mountain, offering a wonderful and unique autumn sentiment resonating with music.

Sinbulsan Mountain, with its main peak 1,159 meters above sea level, is part of a mountain range spanning from Gajisan Mountain to Yeongchuksan Mountain.Situated between Yeongchuksan Mountain and Ganwolsan Mountain,Sinbulsan Mountain has amain ridgeblanketed with silver grass that especially fascinates hikers in autumn. The mountain also offers leisure and sports activities including paragliding. The mountain ridge, which turns into a magnificent silver grass field in autumn, is a must-see spectacle of the Yeongnam Alps along with the silver grass fields on Cheonhwangsan Mountain

Cheonhwangsan Mountain (1,189 m) lies at the center of the Yeongnam Alps, and offers visitors to ths summit an outstanding panorama of the vast mountain range and silver grass fields of the Sajapyeong Plains. Due to the beautiful landscape of the Cheonhwangsan Mountain area, Cheonhwangsan has been referred to as the Geumgangsan Mountain of the South.

Goheonsan Mountain, across from Sangbuk-myeon, Eonyang-eup, and Duseomyeon,is 1,034meters high. When the area suffered from a severe drought, rituals for rain were held at Yongsaem Spring on the summit.

Munsusan Mountain was originally called Cheongnyangsan,but the name was changed to Munsusan because people believed the mountain was so clean and beautiful that Manjusri (bodhisattva) lived there.

Yeongchuksan Mountain (1,081 m) has Tongdosa Temple, one of the three major temples in Korea. The mountain features a wall of unique rocks and old pine trees and a carpet of silver grass unfolds along the ridge from the summit to Sinbulsan Mountain.

Daeunsan Mountain (742m), known as the last place where the Buddhist monk Wonhyo practiced asceticism, features a royal azalea habitat that reaches from roughly 600 m above sea level to the top. The mountain includes Naewonam Hermitage, a renowned propitious site in the Yeongnam area, and Naewonam Valley, one of the twelve sights of Ulsan. In May, the mountain, capped with bold pink royal azaleas, hosts the Daeunsan Royal Azalea Festival and other events.

Muryongsan Mountain, which has been worshiped as the local guardian mountain, faces fishing boats floating on the blue waters of the East Sea to the east, the flowing Taehwagang River and imposing Ulsan Industrial Complex to the south, and the city of Ulsan to the west. While the 451-meter-high mountain offers a beautiful sunrise, attracting visitors especially on New Year’s Day, it also provides a gleaming night view of the Ulsan Industrial Complex.

Ulju Mountain Film Festival is the country’s first international mountain film festival. It screens films about mountains, people, and nature around the world and holds a lot of auxiliary events in orderto involve professional mountaineers as well as ordinary people who love mountains.