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Mt Kumgang with Superb Scenic Beauty

Travel 2020.6.26.



Mt Kumgang is situated in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula. It opens out diverse, magnificent and beautiful scenery in a vast area. It is called one of the most celebrated mountains as it is blessed with 12 000 peaks, myriads of fantastic rocks and soaring cliffs, deep gorges, spectacular falls, pools associated with legends and superb scenic beauty of seashore, which go well with one another.

The mountain is divided into three sections-lnner Kumgang, Outer Kumgang and Sea Kumgang-according to the type of landscape.

In the mountain grow rare plants like Kumgang Stephanandra incisa and Hanabusaya asiatica Nakai, which are found in one and only genus and species in the world.

A foreign poet said: "Don’t talk about any celebrated mountain in the world before seeing Mt Kumgang."

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