Taichung City One-Day Excursion

Taichung Railway Station → STOCK20 → National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts → Fine Arts Parkway Business District → Taichung Brewery → Tunghai University → Art Street → Metropolitan Park → Feng Chia Night Market

Taichung City Two-Day Excursion

Day 1
City Center → Taichung Park → House of Arts & Humanities → Mayor's Residence → Taichung Broadcasting Bureau → Yizhong St. Business District → Dakeng Business District → Tea time and fruit picking at Recreational Farm → Spa getaway experience

Day 2
Dakeng B&B → Hiking Path → White Cold Irrigation & Drainage System → Recreational Farm in Xinshe → Dongfeng Green Passage in Shihgang → Shihgang Water Dam → Lover’s Bridge in Shihgang → Great food in front of Fengyuan Temple → Sweet Home

Central Taiwan Two-Day Excursion

Day 1
City Center → National Museum of Natural Science → Botanical Garden → Jingguo Parkway → Gongyi Rd. Restaurants → Fengle Sculpture Park → Wanhe Temple Lakeside Business District → Chung Hsing University → Zhongxiao Night Market → Stay at a hotel in city center

Day 2
Choice 1 Nantou: Tea Aroma Walking Path in Mingjian Township, Jiji Boulevard, Shueili Snake Kiln, Wind Closet in Xinyi Township.
Choice 2 Changhua: Lukang, Wanggong Fishing Port
Choice 3 Miaoli: Shengxing Train Station, Soaring Dragon Broken Bridge, Sanyi Museum of Wood Sculpture, Dahu Strawberry Farms
Choice 4 Taichung: Taichung County Seaport Art Center, Gaomei Wetland in Qingshuei Township, Tourist Fishing Port in Wuqi Township, Qingshuei Rice Cake, Qingshuei Rest Area

Dakengshan Path

At 10 in the morning, I slid down Zhongqin intersection and went upward to Dakeng. Looking at border of Central Mountain Range and Taichung Basin, I saw Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus, Muller's Barbet, Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler, Brazilian Fireweed, Mallotus japonicus, Ormosia formosana, birds, flowers, winds and trees. I kept walking forward in the green.

In the afternoon, I went through the basin and climbed to Donghai Forestry Center on the other side of Dadushan. Cows, paths, ducks and herbage gave me a relaxed afternoon in the shades of trees.

The sun set and moon rose. Having dinner at Taichung Utopia Artstreet, I went to metropolitan park in Dadushan. Watching the lights in the basin, I was deeply in love with this charming city—Taichung.

Day 1
Dongfeng Park→ Dadusheng Path→ Donghai Forestry Center→ Taichung Metropolitan Park

Taichung City-Natural Museum of Natural Science

Day 1
Natural Museum of Natural Science→ Botanic Park→ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts→ Jingming 1st Street
Natural Museum of Natural Science is the first museum promoting science education in Taiwan. There are Science Center, Space Theater, Life Science Hall, and Human Culture Hall in 24 themes. The Botanic Park is behind the museum, occupying 4.5 hectares and collecting approx. 750 plants.

Jingming 1st Street is the origin of European style shops in Taichung. It is composed of two features building in unique flavor.

Day 2
Shinshe River Terraces→ Lavender Forest→ Dongshi Forestry Center
Shinshe is Yangmingshan in central Taiwan. It is tranquil and keeps primitive environment with absolutely good vision. Dongshi Forestry Center used to be called Sijiaolin at altitude 500-700 meters in Dongshin Neighborhood, Dongshi Township. Dongshi Forestry Center offers natural ecology and entertainment facilities.

Flying Cow Pasture

Day 1
Flying Cow Pasture→ Tung-Hsiao Bathing Place→ Wood Sculpture Museum→ Huoyanshan Ecology Education Hall
Flying Cow Pasture, famous with its views, is a good place for family, school, group travels and conferences and education training to relieve work pressure. Tung-Hsiao bathing place is full of red, yellow tents in May to decorate the green trees. Smoke with meat aroma in the sound of music attracts the minds of visitors.

Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum is the only public museum focusing on wood sculpture. It collects fine wood sculpture works to enhance local wood sculpture level and promote exchange with foreign works. In the reservation area in Huoyanshan, there are erecting peaks, dry valleys, washout ditches and surging pebbles in rich natural ecology.

Day 2
Tiezhenshan in Dajia→ Rice Culture Hall→ Jenn Lann Temple
Tiezhenshan is mostly forest land. In recent years, new scenic spots include Sword Well, Martyr’s Shrine, Solders’ Cemetery, Koxinga Statue, Zhongzheng Park and Yongxin Park. Sword Well is most legendary. It was said that Koxinga inserted the sword into the land and there was the sweet well water. There had been no drought since then.

Walking up along Sword Well, you can see Martyr’s Shrine. In the Guanghai Pavilion, you can look down Daan River. Koxinga Statue is on the right of Pavilion in solemnity. Yongxin Park next to the statue is divided into sports park and entertainment center with fields for ball games and camping barbecue area. Known as Mazu Temple before, Jenn Lann Temple, famous at home and abroad, has been there for over 2 centuries. Auspicious patters with solemn stone sculpture, delicate wood sculpture, and little color painting gave the famous old temple in authority symbol.

Gaomei Wetland Bird Watching Area

Saunder's Gull and Black-Faced Spoonbill
Chinese Egret and Phalacrocorax carbo
Barn Swallow and Striated Swallow
Fiddler crabs and mudskippers
Ipomoea pescaprae and Kandelia candel，

world unique Hygrophila pogonocalyx Hayata with light purple flowers
70 kinds of rare birds in Dashuishan and 10 odd kinds in Tunghai University All of them are in this trip of woods.

Day 1
Taichung Municipal Gymnasium→Gaomei Wetland Bird Watching Area→ Tunghai University

Day 2
Dashueishan Forest Entertainment Area

Utopia Artstreet

Xiaoming’s diary:
I like Utopia in Dadushan. With my scooter in a lazy after, I chatted with artist bosses there.

I like to smell the wine in Taiwan Beer Brewery to believe I was Lee Bai, the great poet by faking drunk and wrote poem not rhymed.

On Sundays at Wenxin Jade Shop, I played with the mallet of the antique shop

In the shops of books, paintings, and stone by Mayuen River, I talked to the bosses from time to time in the nights full of stories.

Bosses of shops by the lake are youngest. They are like my brothers and sisters. It was fun spending time at their shops.
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The museum and cultural center were the place where I exerted my imagination. The paintings by maestros that I could not quite comprehend became monsters in the games. I was the warrior to kill them. It was tiring to image each painting as a monster. Often, I just ended in vain.

Comments by the teacher:
You really have good imagination. I will take my students to play like this.
Day 1
Endemic Species Center Research Institute → Utopia Artstreet→ Taichung Wine Brewery→ jade market on Wenxin Road→ Artstreet by the lake

Day 2
Cultural Center→ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts→ Artstreet Workshop by the lake

Botanic Park

Green Heart in Taichung Basin—Botanic Park
AM10:00, I paid the pilgrimage at beam structure and glass giant green house.

One second before the Big Bang, PM11:00, I knew at National Museum of Natural Science.

PM1:00, I was on Jingming 1st Street, listening to heavy Italian accent on the brick pavement in Milan Square.

I slipped to place of art performance—Cultural Center.

At PM2:00, I enjoyed the afternoon tea of art.

At PM3:00, puzzled in the abstract space, I forgot the time in heating sun in the afternoon in the Museum of Fine Arts.

At PM6:00, I met Gezhi to recall the childhood on Fine Arts Path.
Deep in the night, I went back home from the night scene in Wanggaoliao.

Day 1
Botanic Park→ Jingming 1st Street→ Cultural Center→ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts→ Fine Arts Path