Park/Garden sights in Taipei

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   Zhishan Garden

   • Taipei, Taiwan
   • Sights › Park/garden

   Just south of Tianmu's Yangming Hospital and a few blocks east of the Zhishan MRT station sits one of our favourite Taipei parks, a jungle-filled mountain just north of the Shuangxi River (also a lovely park in its own right). It's filled with gardens and shrines and the top of the mountain has a temple dedicated to a much-revered sage and general called Chen Yuan Kwang, who lived 1500 years ago. Though the temple itself is lovely enough, more interesting still are the statues surrounding it – carved stone representations of characters well known to anyone familiar with the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms. And what really makes the climb worth it is the…

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