Hwasun Gotjawal Forest 화순곶자왈생태숲길

Gotjawal is the only one forest in the world where the Northern plant hardiness and the Southern plant hardiness co-exist.
Gotjawal is a Jeju dialect which means a mess area where trees, bine plants and stones are mixed like a thicket.
Gotjawal is distributed widely in Jeju but this place. Hwasun Gotjawal especially famous.
The reason why a number of the tropical and the frigid plants can coexist is because the height of the slope and solar radiation quantity is different.
You can reach the observatory for about an hour on foot.
Looking down standing at there, you’ll see the stocks like pigs, cows, horses, chichens etc running here and there.

1211-2 Hwasun-ri, Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, South Korea

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