Travel in Taiwan, Beautiful Sun Moon Lake, Xuanzang Temple, Qing Long Mountain Trail, local street food, Nan Tou County

Sun Moon Lake is a famous landscape in Taiwan. We can take a boat to view the beautiful lake. We also can take a bus or ride a bicycle to tour the landscape around the lake. This is a tourist attraction that could let us be very relaxing. And the quality of the air is also very good.

There are famous hotels around the lake. We can enjoy the scenery of Sun Moon Lake when living in the room of facing Sun Moon Lake. The landscape what have viewed would be changed and different with the sunset and sunrise and the four seasons. 

There is an Qing Long Mountain Trail. In the summer, it is very cool when walking on the trail. The weather is like to enjoy the natural air condition. There are also a lot of natural landscape along the way, such as plant and butterfly. 

The famous Buddhist Monk, master Xuanzang (AD 602 - 664), who went far away to the India for learning Buddha and bring a lot of Buddhist Scripture in Sanskrit back to China, and translated those Scripture from Sanskrit into Chinese. Such Buddhist Scriptures are protected well by the public and the government, and also profoundly affect the Chinese people and the Chinese culture a lot.  

His relics, bone ashes, become the treasure of country. And some of his bone ashes are now placed in this temple which is called Xuanzang Temple to honor him. 

This is the local food made by the local fish in the Sun Moon Lake. There are a lot of specialties made by the small rice and also a lot of street foods. The local famous tea is red tea. 

It is very convenient to take a bus to go to Sun Moon Lake.  The bus shifts are more in Nan Tou Bus at Taichung High-Speed Railway Station. There is  almost one bus in 30 Mins. We also can take a bus of Guoguang Passenger Transport in Taipei Transfer Station.