• Start
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• Gaepyeong Hanok Village
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• Josaenzip
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• Sangrim Park
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• Hamiang Wine Valley
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• Anui Wonjo Galbee restaurant
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• Odojae
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• Seoamjeong Temple
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• Maum Hotel
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• Hyeon Restaurant
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• Gwanghalluwon Garden
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• Guryong Falls
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• Silsangsa Temple
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• Finish

Korea has a beautiful road. Odojae in Gyeongsangnam-do is so distinctive and beautiful road. Hamyang citizens call the road as “Odojae”, but people of other regions call it as “Jianchi(Jianjae)”. The official name is still “Jianchi”. But the top of the road is called as “Odojae”. People in the past should pass “Odojae” to reach Jangteomok Pass of Jirisan mountain for barter. It was selected to one of “100 beautiful roads” by Ministry of Construction and Transportation. Okay, here we go!

You can see an extraordinary road when you drive No.24 national highway from local road in Guryong-ri to Namwon. It looks like a snake. What an interesting road! You can find a signpost named “the road to Jirisan mountain”, and you will reach the road to Namwon after passing two hills.

Some senior citizens looked at me curiously when I took a picture of the village. “What are you taking a picture?”, they asked. So I answered that I wanted to take a picture of a beautiful road. But they said, “It is just hard to climb. It is not a pretty road at all.” Some tourists would visit here to take some pictures. But the old ladies would think it is just a terrible road. Anyways, you can find an even sloping road after passing the village hall. Then you will see the curved uphill road of Jianjae soon.

There is an observatory in the shoulder of a road, so you can overlook the whole view. The curved road is amazing. I am sorry that I couldn't take a beautiful picture due to the weather. But I couldn't wait until night because I had to go to Namwon to take a picture of the night view.

A legend says people get enlightment after walking this road. So a number of classical scholars and ascetics like Jeong Yeo-chang, Kim Jong-jik, Kim Il-son, Yoo Ho-In and Suhsan Daisa walked this road. Maybe I got enlightment, too.

You wouldn't move to another place. The road is amazing. Jirisan mountain is high enough. You can find the curve road over and over again. I think It is like our life.

You would look back on the way you walked. You will see the first course of Jirisan mountain after passing Odojae. And you will find deep in the heart of the mountains.

You can see the signboard named “the old inn” along the side of the road. I went inside to drink makgeolli (raw rice wine)

But it is closed. I think people used to relieve their thirst and take a break here. I wonder how the people lived in the inn.

It was the first time that I saw the small inn like this. I wonder how makgeolli tastes in the past. It would be out of this world, I guess.

I met “the first course of Jirisan mountain” in the top of the hill. There were parking lot, an observatory and small rest area. Chinese poems in the Joseon dynasty period have been written on the stones eveywhere.

There used to be a shrine to the village deity on the top of Odojae. Passerbys stopped and made a wish in front of it. The memorial stone of a mountain spirit was establised when the road to Jirisan mountain was open in 2003. You shouldn't miss the chance to made a wish. Who knows? Your wish can be realized.

There is a monument house with small memorial stone written “Odosanryeongsinjiwi” on the right side of the first door in Jirisan mountain. People those who had to pass this mountain might have felt sad. This hill had been the line of defense from the Silla period to Korean war period. I made a wish in front of the hill.

I could see only mountain and the sky after looking around on the first course of Jirisan mountain. I like it. You can find the top of Beopwasan mountain after climbing the mountain.

You can find a wide park of Jirisan mountain after passing the first course of Jirisan mountain. You can see the main ridge of Jirisan mountain from Nogodan peak to Cheonwangbong peak in the pavilion. But it was raining at that time. I am sorry for that. That is the top of Cheonwangbong peak (1,915 meters).

Odojae is the shortest course from Hamyang to Jirisan mountain. Why don't you appreciate the main ridge of Jirisan mountain in the beautiful curved road, and forget about your anxiety?

+ Address: Guryong-ri mountain 119-3, Hamyang-eup, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do

Address: 경상남도 함양군 함양읍 구룡리 산119-3 / 대한민국 경상남도 함양군 함양읍 구룡리 산119-3