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Liugui District is located at the intersection of the Gaoping Plain and the hills of the Central Mountain range. It is dominated by Hakka and Hoklo speaking ethnic groups. Despite the rapid changes over time, Liugui Street still retains old buildings weathered by time and it is also a mountain city in which communities with different cultures live together.
Why not take a leisurely stroll? There is the largest I-Kuan Tao Shenwei Taintai Temple in Asia, Dih Yuen Temple, Miaochong Temple, Miaotong Temple and other Buddhist temples and giant Buddha statues. Other sights include Xinwei Scenic Bridge with new project mapping and rich designs, the famous hot spring resorts of Baolai Hot Spring and Bulao Hot Spring. Visitors will not want to miss “Baolai Flower Park and Hot Springs” and Liugui Old Street (Iketaya House and Hong Kun Yuan Store), where they can taste handmade delicacies, experience handicraft art and enjoy a worry-free trip to bathe in the mountains and forests.
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- Top hot spring resorts where visitors can bathe in hot springs and admire flowers include Baolai Hot Spring Area and Buelao Hot Spring Area. These slightly alkaline carbonated springs allow tourists to completely relax their mind, body and soul.
- Xinwei Landscape Bridge in the shape of a purple-spotted butterfly echoes the butterfly for which the area is famous. When the blue lights shine at night, it looks like the wings of a butterfly flapping.
- In late winter and early spring, the mahogany forest road in Xinwei Forest Park is turned red, creating a poetic and picturesque scene.
- The peaks of the Eighteen Arhats Mountain are interlinked. Viewed from a distance, the dozens of towering peaks resemble Arhats standing with different expressions and movements, hence the name "Taiwan's Little Guilin."
- The 90-year-old "Iketaya House" is the only Japanese-style old house in Liugui with historical building status. It was an important transportation post and is also part of the collective memory of residents who went out to work and study at that time.
- The Xinwei Xifang Bogong, which was moved to an elementary school due to road widening work, has a tomb-like shape unique to the southern Hakka and inherits the Hakka spirit of feeling gratitude for the source of benefits.
- Xinliao Q version Bo Gong (Earth God) tells the story of the glorious days of camphor development locally during the period of Japanese rule. Visitors follow the red brick wall to explore the Xinliao Trail, with a 100-year old well at the entrance of the ancient road.
- Not far from Xinwei Forest Park, Liugui Xinwei Quanshan Temple conducts the traditional "Sacrifice to the River" ritual. The temple is listed as an intangible cultural asset of Kaohsiung City and highly recommended as a place to visit.
- More than a thousand flowering trees have been planted in Baolai Flower Park and Hot Springs behind Baolai Junior High School, allowing visitors to soaking their feet in a footbath amid the fragrant blooming flowers.
