Kenting Forest Recreation Area

Kenting National Forest Recreation area is the best place to observe tropical plants. The special plant landscapes in the area, such as Bangen of silver leaf, chuirong Valley and the natural topography formed by coral reefs, such as stalagmite cave and a line of sky, are worth seeing. On the Guanhai tower, you can have a panoramic view of the mountains and sea around Kenting. It's suitable for the whole family.

Kenting Forest Recreation Area

With an area of 466.8 hectares, Kenting forest recreation area is the only tropical botanical garden in Taiwan and one of the top ten tropical botanical gardens in the world. It is built from the first tropical botanical herbarium in Taiwan. Canyons, caves, stalactites and stalagmites formed by coral reefs are the main topographical landscapes in this area, showing the wonders of natural evolution everywhere. There are more than 1000 tropical plants, especially birds, butterflies, reptiles and other insect resources. The red tailed Shrike and grey faced vulture, which are visited every autumn and winter, attract many bird watchers to follow and watch, and seem to have become another popular scenic spot.

Introduction

The whole park can be divided into three parts: the first recreation area is a sightseeing area integrating plant landscape and artificial buildings; the second recreation area is dominated by unique terrain landscape and plant landscape; the third recreation area is a primitive coral reef rain forest belt, with the same scenery as the second recreation area, which is not open to the public based on ecological protection.

After entering the park gate, you will be in the first recreation area. In the area, there are qiedong giant wood, tourist center, Flower Pavilion, artificial lake, stalagmite cave, music platform, silver leaf ban gen, wanghaitai, Xiandong and guanhailou. Among them, the more special ones are stalagmite cave and fairy cave, both of which belong to the coral reef cave. The caves are full of stalactites and stalagmites, which are rare natural wonders. The silverleaf root is a rare tree, whose roots often accumulate water, so they have to stretch out the ground to breathe air, forming a unique radial root landscape. Guanhai tower is a good place for climbing and overlooking. You can have a panoramic view of oluanbi, the Pacific Ocean, Taiwan Strait, Bashi Strait and the park. In addition to the above-mentioned traditional scenic spots, the first amusement park of forest test institute has set up a variety of theme planting areas for different groups of tropical plants.

Located on the left side of Guanhai tower, Yinlong cave is the first scene of the second recreation area. From here, you can visit umbrella Pavilion, Churong Valley, labyrinth forest, yixiantian, the first gorge and qiape cliff. Compared with the first recreation area, the second recreation area is more primitive, with the vast coral reef forest and valley. It is far away from the hustle and bustle.

The third recreation area enters from the first gorge and goes out to view the sea floor, forming a long strip from north to south, which is distributed in the southeast side of the second recreation area. There are coral reef Valley, tropical virgin forest, coral reef cave and other landscapes inside. The scenery is rough and primitive, without any artificial color.

Local transportation

Self driving: take Xiaogang interchange road to expressway, provincial road 17, via Linyuan, Donggang, linbian, shuidiliao, then take provincial road 1 southward, then turn to provincial road 24 at Fenggang, via Checheng and Hengchun to Kenting. Anti Traffic Secret:

* main route 1. Pingtung Jiuru interchange → Tai 3 line → Tai 1 line → shuidiliao → Tai 1 line → Tai 26 line → Kenting 2. Pingtung Jiuru interchange → Tai 3 line → Tai 27 line → Tai 17 line → shuidiliao → Tai 1 line → Tai 26 line → Kenting * dredging Route 1. Pingtung Jiuru interchange → Tai 3 line (Zhongxiao Road) → Tai 22 line → left turn of culvert under Gaoping bridge → Tai 1 line (Minsheng Road) Line 26 → Kenting 2. Line 1 → line 132 → line 185 → line 1 3. Line 17 → line 136 → line 185 → line 1

Happy in the scenic area

The recreation area is full of exquisite and strange coral reefs, which are made by nature. The forest and scenery are very beautiful. There are many sceneries in the recreation area. The most famous sceneries are guanhailou, Huaxie, wanghaitai, Kenting beach, coral reef group, stalagmite cave, fairy cave, yixiantian, qiape cliff, labyrinth forest, the first gorge, Churong Valley and Yinlong cave.

Local shopping

·Hualien stone carving

Due to the active crustal plate of Hualien City in Taiwan, many rare stones and beautiful jade have been created. All kinds of rocks are transported and polished by streams and streams, and piled up on the river bed and the coast, becoming colorful beautiful stones.

After mining and processing, the large stone can be used as building materials and furniture to beautify the environment. Small size is suitable for holding in the hands of play; rich stone for Hualien won the "hometown of stone" reputation, but also for Hualien to create a different urban landscape.

The unique environment has attracted many stone carvers to settle here, and the exhibition space of various stone carving works in Hualien has become diversified. Art galleries, cultural centers, restaurants, hospitals and office buildings are also decorated with stone carvings. Railway stations, streets and parks are also equipped with large-scale stone carvings and stone landscaping stages.

The "Hualien international stone carving art season" held every two years has opened up the international vision of Hualien stone carving. Now, Hualien has evolved from the "hometown of stone" which was started by output in its early years to the "hometown of stone art" which won by texture.

·Four treasures of Penghu

Aragonite, coral, sea tree and MaoGong stone are known as the four treasures of Penghu.

Aragonite is a unique beautiful ore in Penghu, which is produced by chemical changes of various minerals under special temperature and pressure. Growing in basalt crevices, only Penghu and Sicily in the world produce aragonite. Although Sicily is rich in aragonite, its quality is inferior to that of Penghu. Penghu aragonite has rich and varied beautiful patterns. Although it has been banned, it can still be bought in aragonite shops in Magong city.

Penghu used to be one of the four largest coral producing areas in the world. The coral produced in Penghu belongs to the pink series. At present, it has stopped mining. However, there are still some processed earrings, necklaces, or small coral tree decorations on the market, which tourists can choose according to their preferences. However, corals are fragile and afraid of acid, so collision and contact with sweat should be avoided.

Sea tree, also known as Shifan or black coral, blue coral, golden yellow, black, red ochre three colors. Most of them are salvaged from the sea when fishermen are fishing. Because the hardness is worse than coral, the price is much lower. But the sea tree is cold, high fire resistance and long color, which is the best material for making pipe.

MaoGong stone is a kind of basalt, hard stone is covered with sea erosion pores. It is produced in the basalt developed islands such as tungpan and Hujing, which is the best material for landscaping. If you like, you can go to the seashore of the outlying island to look for it.

·Meinong specialty

Meinong without chimney is famous for its handicrafts, especially oil paper umbrella. For Hakkas, umbrella is not only a shelter from rain, but also a symbol of auspiciousness: the face of the umbrella is round when it is opened, which has a complete meaning; and because the word "umbrella" has four "people", which symbolizes many children and grandchildren, it is loved by Hakkas. Meinong's oil paper umbrella is exquisitely made, and the Chinese calligraphy and painting on the surface of the umbrella are very beautiful. Even though most people no longer use the oil paper umbrella, many people still buy it as a work of art. When buying a paper umbrella, in addition to the drawing on the surface of the umbrella, whether the switch is smooth is also an important choice. At present, Meinong has many oil paper umbrella factories, among which guangrongxing umbrella factory on the Bank of Zhongzheng lake has the longest history and the most famous.

Meinong kiln is well-known for its unique ceramic wall creation in Taiwan, while taozhixiang adheres to the line of artistic creation and endows all kinds of pottery with unique features.

·Zhizi ice

Qishan is a famous specialty, located at the intersection of Zhongshan Road and Huazhong street, "Zhizi ice city". Founded in 1926, it is the oldest ice store in Taiwan. Zhizi ice city's Zhizi ice is soft and smooth. The ice is fine, even and solid, and will not be broken by biting. There are many branches in Tainan and Kaohsiung.

At present, Zhizi ice city is not only selling Zhizi ice, but also diversifying. It also sells sundaes, banana boats and other ice-cream products, while the common ice cream and ice-cream also have red beans, taro, peanut milk and other flavors. There is also a rare kind of moistening cake ice. The skin of moistening cake is covered with taro ice, peanut powder and coriander. It has a special flavor and is worth tasting.

·Gangshan Sanbao refers to bean paste, honey and mutton snacks. Along the longitudinal highway through the town of Gangshan, the traces of the three treasures of Gangshan can be seen everywhere.

Okayama bean paste has a great reputation, and there are many brands in the market, especially the earth brand of Mingde company. Due to the excellent selection of raw materials, adherence to the ancient method of brewing and adherence to the brewing process, the earth brand bean paste is very popular. It is not only upgraded from the original street vendor to a food factory, but also famous overseas.

Okayama honey is produced in Dagang mountain area and Xiaogang mountain area of Tianliao township. Because of the abundant longan in Dagang mountain area, the "longan honey" brewed by bee colony is of excellent quality. Pure honey is fragrant and sweet and sour, and its color, consistency and honey taste are different in different periods. The less foam the better, the most famous honey shop in Okayama is located in the gold medal honey shop on the road.

Due to the elasticity and sweetness of the local mutton, and the craftsmanship of the store, the famous Okayama mutton is created. There are many kinds of mutton snacks in Gangshan, such as Angelica sinensis mutton, mutton rice noodles, sesame oil mutton and mutton soup. Dechang mutton has the longest history and the best taste. The signature dishes are Dagu soup, Danggui mutton and mutton rice noodles. They are made of local fat castrated mutton, 11 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine and various seasonings. They are delicious and nutritious.

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