Sun-Linked-Sea 杉林溪 literally translates as "a stream running in cedar forests" in Mandarin. The place is located at Nan-Tou county and is a canyon itself. The canyon is nothing grandeur as the Grand Canyon of Arizona which every American will show-off to their foreign friends. Yet, Sun-Linked-Sea 杉林溪 is out of tourists' beating paths. You will have a great vacation at this remote site of Taiwan.
Meeilei and I received a royal-like reception during our vacation of Sun-Link-Sea 杉林溪 on February 2, 2009. We stayed overnight at a very comfortable hotel (the only hotel in Sun-Linked-Sea) and enjoyed one 5-course dinner and one great Taiwanese country breakfast. How much does the hotel and meals cost? It was NT $1000, or approximately US $32/person.
Hard to imagine, this place was a dirt after Taiwan had a century great earth quake in 1999, or the 9-21-Earth Quake (as it is often called because the earthquake occurred on September 21, 1999.) whose quake intensity measured at 7.5 levels. Witness accounts that building collapsed on one another; for example, a second floor of a building collapsed and sat on top of the next building's first floor. In that quake, Taiwanese lost about 2450 lives. Yet, shear resiliency of Taiwanese rebuilt Sun-Linked-Sea 杉林溪 and other places. Indeed, the rebuilding efforts have earned great international respect. I remember at one occasion, Pastor Chuck of Memorial Presbyterian Church of Appleton has openly praise Taiwanese for their rebuilding efforts in one of his sermons.
Photo shows our great moment at Sun-Linked-Sea and the neighborhood of Sun-Linked Sea immediately after the earthquake (the third photo).
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