







Taiwanese people definitely love flowers. Different season comes with different blossom and of course a lot of tourists. In the past nearly two years of my life in Taiwan I've seen many different flowering farms. I've seen a cherry blossom in Nantou last year, which was also beautiful. I always dream to see Alishan's cherry blossom which is most famous, just as Yangmingshan. Maybe next year because I gonna move to South Taiwan in a few month.

Wuji TianYuan Temple ( 天元宮 )









The most popular Wuji Jen-Yuan Tiantan was build in 1992. It's an unique structure of the temple in Taiwan. The temple was named Tiantan because its outline looks like the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. The temple is 200 meter high. The circural building's diameter is 108 meter. Each of 5 floors is dedicated to different Taoist God. The temple is open all year but the most trafficking comes in sakura blossom season.







The temple became famous because of the cherry blossom. Those trees was planted in 1970s by hundreds of volunteers. The main kind of trees planted here are native to Japan's Yoshino Sakura. You can see two different kind with pink and white blossom on trees. You can also see Taiwanese cherries with deep pink color.





The blossom season of Japanese sakura is short, lasts only about 1 month. Although January-April you can see Taiwanese cherry blossom.

Sakura became popular in Taiwan during Japanese occupation. Japanese people brought different kind of trees and planter around Taiwan.

During this season traffic is controlled and vehicles are prohibited to enter. You can find a shuttle bus from parkings to get to here. Now it was still a lot of parking place and almost no people came here.

Address:

Wuji Tianyuan Temple, No. 36, Section 3, Beixin Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City, 251

One of popular places to see cherry blossom in North of Taiwan is. It's the end of January and the first cherry blossom can be seen around. We came to here, although now only 20% of cherries are in bloom. All of cherries bloom in the garden behind the temple, unfortunately there wasn't any in front.The Wuji Tianyuan Temple is a Taoist Temple located in Tamsui, New Taipei. The construction of this temple started in 1972. The basic construction was completed in less than 60 days. The construction was finished in 1985.