Mount Changbai spans acorss the southeastern border of North Korea, just like a dragon with flashing scale, towering into the sky. It enjoys equal fame with the Five Famous Mountains known as the first mountain in the east of Shanhaiguan with its charming scenery. It gets the name from the main peak Mt. Paektu which boosts white floatstone and snow, and enjoys the reputation that “With thousands of years of white snow and pines, Mount Changbai is everlasting under heaven.”
Mount Changbai is both magnificent and miraculous with many beautiful and charming legends like the "Goddess bathes in the pool". Its vertical landscape is more wonderful and it is said that "the scenery of a season can been seen in a whole day". Today, the tour to Changbai Mountain in winter is no longer a myth, it attracts countless visitors from home and abroad to come to pay a visit here all year round.
The nine famous scenes of Mount Changbai are: Tianchi, Chengchahe River, Changbai Waterfall, Julong Spring, Changbai Lake, Underground Forest, Ermans Birch Forest Scenic Zone, Mountain Tundra Scenic Zone and Heifengkou.