Visit Tianliao’s ‘Moon World’ during Moon Festival

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-13
By George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The well-known mudstone badlands located in Tianliao District, Kaohsiung City is an expanse of undulating barren hills capped with jagged ridges and knife-sharp peaks. People in Taiwan call this type of landform “moon world,” and therefore it’s considered as an appropriate place to visit on the occasion of the Moon Festival.

This type of spectacular landscape can also be found in Tainan’s Longci and Juojhen districts, Kaohsiung’s Neimen and Yanchao districts, Taitung’s Liji as well as Pingtung’s Hengchun Township.

Tianliao’s “Moon World” has been the scene of dozens of movies. The barren ridges are reflected on the surface of a lake below them during good weather, making the place even more desolate and mystical, especially at night.

To provide better services for the tourists, the Tourism Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government has created Tianliao Moon World Landform Park, featuring ecological parks, lakeside walkways, the Path to the Moon Walkway, and the moon platform.     [FULL  STORY]