Tourist Attractions

National Palace Museum

http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/home.htm

National Palace Museum, located in outskirt of Taipei City, is home to essence of the five-thousand-year Chinese history. It has the finest collections of Chinese Arts, providing an eye-opening experience of Chinese culture. Taiwan is somewhere you can experience the amazement of Chinese culture.

Taipei 101

http://www.taipei-101.com.tw/index_en.htm

Sunrise, Sea of Clouds, Railway, Forest and Sunset are the Five Wonders of Mount Ali. Every year, for about a month in mid-March, Mount Ali is also wreathed in cherry blossoms.

The Alishan Forest Railway was built in combination with the most advanced technics of mountain railway engineering of the world at the time in terms of its building era. In the history of the development of the engineering technique in the railroad, this creatively engineering technique could be considered as a great work. In 1906 under the guidance of Dr. He-He the Japanese started to build a railroad into the mountain. The Alishan Forest Railway began to operate in 1912, they extend the initial railroad to Alishan in 1913. With transportation available for forest products a massive logging business started that eventually removed most of the large cypress from Alishan. Officially, full freight service began from Chiayi to Alishan in 1918. The railroad was not intended for passengers but in 1914. In 1920, the first guest car was added for the lumbermen and inhabitants along the line.

The total length of the Alishan Forest Railway from Chiayi to Jhaoping Stataion was 71.9 km when the railway was completed at first. It once had had 25 stations the most along the route and passed through 72 and 114 bridges from 30 meters to 2,274 meters above sea level. Ordinary trains could not climb up the railway because of the high elevation and the small radius of each bend. It is the challenging geographical conditions that make this mountaineering railway well-known to the world.

Every weekend passengers can take the old stream train with wooden cart between Chiayi City and Chuchi Town. Every cart cost NT$4,000,000 to be made to copy to the exterior and interior as the original cart in 1910s.

Alishan Mountain

http://www.ali.org.tw

Two buildings for historic archives of Chiayi City were religious fast house and social affair house affiliated to Chiayi Shrine in the Japanese colony. The Historic Archives Building of Chiayi City has been listed as historic site. Fast house was a place of fast and preparation before sacrifices and social affairs house is an office for shrine administration management.

Taroko Gorge

http://www.taroko.gov.tw

Located in eastern Taiwan, this is a world-famous gorge carved out of marble. A magnificent and impressive wonder of nature, the area is also home to a wealth of Aboriginal cultures and magnificent stone artwork.

Sun Moon Lake

http://www.sunmoonlake.gov.tw/sun.aspx?Lang=EN

Sun Moon Lake is located in the center of Taiwan and is the island’s largest lake. It is a beautiful alpine lake, divided by the tiny Lalu Island; the eastern part of the lake is round like the sun and the western side is shaped like a crescent moon, hence the name “Sun Moon Lake”.

Its beauty is created by the combination of mountain and water scenery, and its 760-meter elevation helps give the impression of a Chinese landscape painting with mist-laden water and clearly defined levels of mountains. The constant changes of mists and moods on the lake make it impossible to comprehend in a single look, and thus, visitors like to linger here.

Love River

http://pwbgis.kcg.gov.tw/Love/

As the river runs through some of the most prosperous parts of the city, the beguiling fragrance of rich coffee wafts from the "Love River Mambo" and "Golden Love River" coffee arts & culture squares, mixed in with stirring melodies.

Kenting

http://www.ktnp.gov.tw/eng/index.aspx

Located at the southernmost tip of Taiwan, this national park covers both land and sea. It is renowned for its wintering migratory birds, coastal forests, undersea coral, and tropical beaches where a variety of water sports are on offer.

For more information, please refer to Taiwan Tourism Bureau at http://taiwan.net.tw