 Wuling
Flower Season.
Eighteen thousand cherry blossoms in full bloom, this
is Wuling Farm, one of the most breathtakingly beautiful
places in Taiwan during its cherry blossom season,
which runs until the end of February this year.
There are several varieties of cherry blossoms here;
a couple are native, some are imported and a few are
newly cultivated hybrids. The difference is mostly
in the shape of the trees, the shade of pink, number
of petals and fullness of the flower; the similarity
- how amazing they look and how impossibly difficult
their names are to pronounce.
In addition to cherry blossoms, there are plum blossoms
too; some of these can be quite pungent, and a pleasure
to sit under while sipping tea that��s also produced
on this farm.
To tell you the truth, when Michael and I came up
here, most of the flowers still hadn��t bloomed, so
we explored some places where people wouldn��t normally
go, and we were pleasantly surprised at what we found
- the story of how this farm came to be. Apparently
it was built by veterans.
When the Central Cross Highway was being built, life
was very inconvenient here, so food for the workers
needed to be grown here, and that��s why the farm was
started. Upon completion of the highway, the government
ordered the veterans to settle here on the mountain.
After they retired from the military and from building
the central cross highway, they built these stone
houses by hand. You can still see some of the houses
they lived in, their beds, simple farm tools and where
they ate as well. In the beginning, they grew vegetables
and then fruit. During the 1980��s the place started
its transition to become a recreational farm, which
is what it is today. It��s now a great place to look
at not just flowers, but Formosan Landlocked Salmon
as well, and to also go camping.
I didn��t know it was actually veterans that built
this place.
I didn��t know either. It��s beautiful beyond belief.
It��s impossible to describe how beautiful it is here,
the flowers, the monkeys, the birds, so many different
kinds of birds.
I think I might move up here.
Then I��ll have a place to stay when I come.
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