Popular pastimes like collecting berries and mushrooms and walking in theforest are forbidden in contaminated areas but as time progresses the radiation signs are often ignored.
The woodcutters and gold prospectors may be long gone, but travellers can still relive this fascinating historic era through a series of forestwalking trails that evoke the vanished world of the woodcutters, winding beneath the canopy along rust-coloured streams dappled with sun and shadow.