Eastern Juwang-san's Yong-am-sa amazing gorge-hidden "Dragon-Rock Temple" |
This new and still-small temple is extremely remote and isolated, deep within the little-visited eastern side of Juwang-san National Park (in western Yeongdeok-gun County, North Gyeongsang Province). I visited in early July of 2007. |
After the entranceway, the cement road soon ends at a stone stream-bed which you must drive (a jeep!) or walk up for 30 meters through a narrow gorge, until the road appears again. |
Next to its Main Hall, high steep rock-cliffs can barely be glimpsed through the jungle-thick forest. |
and then larger doltap stone towers lead you along an otherwise-unnoticed path deeper into the forest, where a small obscure waterfall has been converted into crude & mystical Shamanic shrines. |
Yong-wang [Dragon-King of the Waters] shrine, closer-up |
stone-built San-shin-worshipping Shrine, on the right side of the waterfall |