Duryunsan, Haenam: Daeheungsa Temple and the Ridge Above It
Off Map Korea English-guided walking trips through Korea. Quiet trails, hidden villages, slow moments. Driver-only, self-guided. ▸ Plan a trip Eight peaks around one temple, near the end of the mainland. Duryunsan (두륜산) is a ring of rocky peaks in Haenam, the county at the south-western tip of the Korean peninsula — Ttangkkeut (땅끝), the southernmost point of the mainland, is in the same county. In the hollow at the centre of the ring sits Daeheungsa (대흥사), one of the seven mountain monasteries listed together by UNESCO in 2018 as Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea . Duryunsan is not a high mountain. Its highest peak, Garyeonbong (가련봉), is about 703 m. It is also not Korea's southernmost peak — Hallasan on Jeju, and many smaller hills on the south coast, lie further south. What makes it worth the long trip is the combination: a working temple of real historical weight, a ridge of granite peaks above it, and a loop that joins the two in half a ...