Miao-li Things to Do

San-Yi Village is located on the south end of Miao-Li County, there are more mountains than the field, and the nature of the soil belongs to high acid clay that is suitable for the growing of tea trees and camphor woods. While the village people in San-Yi were developing lands on the hillside, they found that the whole countryside is filled with camphor dead wood heads of strange shapes and sizes after long time raiding by the wind and the rain, and due to the beauty and strange shapes, these dead wood heads could become nice decorations at home through some modifications. And because of the Japanese paying highly attention to these woodcarvings, and then brought prosperity to the woodcarving industry in San-Yi. Carvings in San-Yi has been inherited for more than a hundred years, nowadays, there are more than half of the village residents in San-Yi still engaging in woodcarving industry; there are many carving stores standing in great numbers within San-Yi Village. Besides enjoying interesting and strange carving compositions piece after piece, you can also taste the local special Ha-Ka food and snacks.

Hushan (ªê¤s·Å¬u) and Taian Hot Springs are near to Wenshui stream in the hot spring area of Taian Township. The hot springs here are of salty carbonic acid springs with the temperature of about 47-degree C. The water resources always keep enough without drying up all the year round. Head along the road reach first Hushan Hot Spring on the sandbank jut out from the streambed of the Wenshui stream. It has grace scenery here. The Taian Hot Spring is on the slope of the mountain. The surrounding mountains and limpid stream water are the attractions around here.