autumn ciff trail

Gaebiri-gil 개비리길 trail takes you the cliff side path along the Nakdong river near Namji 남지 at the southern province of Changnyeong-gun 창녕군 county. Namji is less than 50 minutes drive south of Daegu. The trail name comes down from a folktale about a dog that has been passed orally. Once upon a time, a mother dog gave birth to 11 puppies at an old man's place in a village near the river. Before long, he noticed one of the puppies was relatively smaller and weaker than the rest. That is why she had only 10 nipples so that one of them didn't always get the chance to nurse. A mother dog was able to nurse all the puppies but didn't make sure everyone was getting fed.

Later, the old man sold the 10 puppies other than the poor one on the market. He decided to keep her that he felt sorry for the baby. One day, the old man's daughter who had married into the family in the other village across the mountain visited his father, found the puppy and told him that she would keep the puppy. 

The two villages where the old man and his married daughter had lived were separated by the mountain next to the river. A couple of days later, the daughter was surprised to see the mother dog feeding the puppy. The dog was thought to have crossed the mountain and dropped by to nurse her cub! Since then, the daughter found out that the mother dog came feed her baby every once a day. Even when it snowed heavily, she came as ever.

The villagers were curious about which trail she had taken, so they chsaed her when she crossed the mountain. They were shortly surprised to see that the dog took a steep cliff path where the snow didn't pile up. Later, the cliff trail had became the major route for the two villagers to easily go back and forth between them, instead of going across the mountain hard. 

In Gaebiri-gil, Gae means a dog, Biri cliff, Gil path. These days, the trail has been maintained well for the hikers and tourists. Its whole distance is 6.4 km.