I am writing an essay and all the websites i have visited are inadequate, can you tell me about what else there is there besides the mountain? The park is in South Korea by the way.
2006-10-03 16:41:46 · 1 answers · asked by Stephie 1 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Korea
Mt. Mai, "Horse-Ear Mountain" named after its shape of twin rocky peaks look like a pair of horse's ears is formed of sedimentary rock which looks like a composite gray-pebble mass hardened in cement.
The West one of two peaks is called "Female Peak", 673m,
The other one located East side called "Male Peak" is 667m.
The Mountain has been called by Many names from old times.
Also various names according to its scapes of each season are to be known as "Sail Peaks" in spring, "Dragon Horn Peaks" in summer, "Horse-Ear Peaks" in autumn, "Scholor-Brush Peaks" in winter.
Stone pagodas erected between rocky peaks and Temple which is on the foot of the mountain.
There're about 80 pagodas, among them main pagoda upto 30 feet tall called 'heaven-earth twin pagoda', means Positive('Yang') and Negative('Um') by Oriental philosophiy.
Mt. Mai was designated as a provincial park in 1979,
also as a national tourist resorts in 1983.
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2006-10-05 23:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by Sandy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋