제주곶자왈도립공원

This guide to Gotjawal Provincial Park on Jeju traces how the tangled, rock-strewn forest under your feet formed, starting nearly two million years ago as Mount Halla built the island through repeated eruptions. You'll hear why the broken lava here was too rough for farmers to ever plow, and how that neglect let seeds and roots claim ground almost nowhere else does. The guide follows the odd climate trapped in the cracked stone, and what it lets grow side by side. It also points you toward what still runs beneath the path, unseen from the surface.