Taroko Admission: Free Taroko TAROKO located downstream Liwu Taroko near the entrance to the highway. Taroko Gorge in eastern Taiwan's most famous scenic mountain resort. Taroko is aboriginal language, means "Great Mountain." As the role of crustal uplift Taroko Liwu River water for several continuous erosion cutting, making the exposed marble rock, resulting in a steep Taroko landscape, mainly in the Eternal Spring Shrine, Swallow Grotto Tunnel of Nine Turns around a few. If Taiwan is a beautiful island, then the Taroko Gorge is the wonders of the United States on Canada-US.
Taroko Park
Taroko National Park is located in the eastern part of Taiwan, Taroko Park across Hualien, Taichung and Nantou Counties, including the Taroko Gorge Taroko Park, Liwu River basin, along the highway landscape, and part of the waterfront of the Soviet Union Hualien Highway landscape. All Taroko Park area of more than 93000 hectares, the Taroko Park in the five national parks in Taiwan, second only to Jade Mountain, ranked second.
The great mountain range formed <br /> Taroko Taroko 6.5 million years ago, crustal instabilities. Gradually moving to the northwest of the Philippines, the constant pressure plate with the Eurasian plate, the energy gathered, looking forward to the release of the export. So frequent volcanic eruptions, tsunami big wave monstrous rolling. After the Penglai orogeny, turned out to a Taiwan and Taiwan. Island with its mountains, water, creatures, have sacred trees. Liwu Chilaishan originated in central Taiwan, the main peak, the source from an altitude of 3449 meters straight into the sea, very fresh.
Taroko history <br /> oldest Millennium million set, water stone entangled with each other. Water for knife, cut out a dangerous majesty; stone material, showing a deep magnificent. Taroko TAROKO, taken from the mountains of the aboriginal languages: "Great Mountain", the great mountains inhabited by the Taroko people believe the rainbow god. 20 km-long Taroko Gorge is the world's largest marble canyon, can see the bitterness and are fortunate.
Frog Rock in the middle is a white marble rocks, on the lower deck was dark green in green schist. An independent rock standing in the Legislative stream, like a V in the river the big frog. The stone on the Orchid Pavilion, like the frog prince top of the head of the Crown, in the distant hills of green, blue and near water, whitewashed stone in, added a hint of orange. According to legend, a loving mother on the bridge, a kind of mountain mother had to stand a long time staring. She did not believe his son had died in the flood, as long as she lived, she would make him wish to go home.
The birthplace of the Taroko tribe, is Taiwan's Central Mountains mountainside of a large stone pillars at Whitehead. About 300 years ago, they came over the mountains stand stream is phase of the hunting area of cultivated land here. Taroko people to patriarchal social life, small family structure, male and female farming organizations, elected the most intelligent men of integrity for the tribal leaders. They believe in animism, I believe that if children learned to comply with the norms and ancestors, that would be the ancestral spirits of the asylum.
