Gwangyang Baegunsan Natural Recreation Forest Selected as 'Recommended Tourist Destination in May' for Forest Vacation

Let's Heal and Enjoy to Refresh Mind and Body Exhausted by COVID-19

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Gwangyang City announced on the 21st that Baegunsan Natural Recreation Forest has been selected as Jeollanam-do’s ‘Recommended Tourist Destination for May’ for forest vacations.

Located at the foot of Baegunsan Mountain, Baegunsan Natural Recreation Forest features a dense primeval forest so thick that the sky is barely visible, and offers various accommodations such as forest houses, auto camping sites, and campgrounds, as well as seminar rooms and a forest culture recreation center.

Opened last year, the ‘Baegunsan Healing Forest’ offers a harmonious blend of outdoor programs like wind bathing and foot soaking in the cedar and cypress forests for the health improvement of citizens and tourists, along with indoor programs where visitors can experience aromatherapy, meditation yoga, and foot baths.

The Gwangyang Wood Culture Experience Center is a complex cultural space equipped with woodworking experience programs where participants from toddlers to adults can touch and feel wood while creating works, as well as a playground furnished with eco-friendly wooden toys.

The Baegunsan Dulle-gil Trail consists of nine diverse and distinctive courses totaling 118 km that preserve nature as it is, providing an opportunity to breathe fresh air and improve health.

Tourism Director Lee Hwa-yeop said, “We hope that citizens and tourists, who have lost travel and daily life due to COVID-19, can rest their tired minds and bodies at Baegunsan in clean Gwangyang, and boost their immunity through healthy foods such as grilled chicken over charcoal, Gwangyang Bulgogi, Gwangyang Gijeongtteok rice cakes, and plum tea.”

Meanwhile, in addition to Baegunsan Natural Recreation Forest, Gwangyang is home to Nuraengigol Natural Recreation Forest, Seomjingang Kkeutdeul Village Recreation Area, which are COVID-free zones, and is filled with foods that can strengthen immunity such as freshwater clam sashimi and Gwangyang eel charcoal barbecue.

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