Monarch Plaza Hotel

Shih Lin Night Market:
Bus from the Monarch Plaza Hotel to Taipei Shih Lin Night Market (Jian Tan MRT Station) is available effective from 14 April 2010, 10 to 20 minutes per bus in frequency. The bus stop in Taipei is located in Exit 2 of Jian Tan MRT station. The bus stop in Taoyuan is located in front of hotel.

Hutou Mountain environmental protection park:
It was reconstructed from a dump to become a new park. The night scenes of Taoyuan can be overlooked at this site. As the night time comes, people gather in the park to appreciate the scene. They are mostly young couples and several young men come here to show their top audio in their cars. The coffee carts are open to 2:00AM. In the deep night, looking upon the starry sky, and watching the small lamps which are powered by solar energy mosaic in the path of the park green glimmering, you will have the fantasy of situating in the galaxy.

Sansheng Temple:
Sansheng Temple is located in the front of Hutou Mountain. There is a Guangong bronze statue at the temple to memorize the ancient heroes. Sansheng Temple worships Guangong. Sansheng in Chinese means ?three saints? indicating Guangong, stove god and Lu Tung-bin. They belong to the medical gods. For the prevalence of disease in Qing dynasty, this temple was built. There are Guanyin, Sakyamuni Buddha and Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva worshiped in the temple.

Daxi Convention Hall:
Daxi Convention Hall is located in the end of Zhongzheng Park. It was a place where the Japanese officers met together. The architecture combined the Japanese style with the European one. The English Queen Annie style mixed with the Japanese Tatsuno style architecture. After the Retrocession, it was changed to become the Jiang's villa. Later it was changed to Jiang's Memorial hall, and now it is the Daxi Artist Villa, which is a place for art display and performance. The original Mrs. Jiang's bedroom now becomes a coffee shop.

Cihu Jiang Kai-Shi memorial park:
A new Jiang Jieshi (Jiang Jhongjheng) park is constructed in Cihu. More than 150 bronze statues of President Jiang Jhongjheng coming from different places of Taiwan are collected here. As the changing of the times, the government organizations and schools in Taiwan removed their statues of President Jiang Jhongjheng and gathered at this park. There are many different poses includeing standing, sitting, in military uniform etc. There are few statues of President Jiang Jingguo among there.

San-keng-zi street:
The same as Daxi Street, the development and the decline of San-keng-zi Street came from the construction along Dahan River. San-keng-zi in Hakka language means water ways, indicating 3 rivers passing the area. San-keng-zi Street developed as the development of the shipping of Dahan River. Then because of the construction of Taoyuan canal and Shimen reservoir, San-keng city declined. The impression of San-keng-zi Street to be the first street of Lungtan became sealed in people's memory.

San-keng-zi Street is not a scenic spot, and is not as famous as Daxi Street. The primitive appearance of the street is well kept. The buildings were constructed in traditional Fukein pattern. Most houses are inhabited. There is only one grocery store on the street. The habitants are mainly Hakka people. The street is about 200 meter long. The Yongfu temple is built in Qing Dynasty Qianlong 9 years. It is the local spiritual stay.
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Traffic
Driving: Take Zhong Shan Highway and get off at Lungtan Interchange to County Highway 113 toward Shimen reservoir to Provincial Highway 3 and turn right;Sec.3, Jhongjheng Rd.

Public transportation: Take a Taoyuan or Hsinchu bus in Zhongli or Taoyuan, and get off at San-keng stop. The stop is 800 meters away from the Old Street.

Daxi Mausoleum:
Daxi Mausoleum was previously Taoliao hotel. It was an ordinary 4-unit compound house. There are cypresses planted aside the entrance of the mausoleum, and plum and tea trees around the place. Daxi Mausoleum is 1 km away from Cihu Mausoleum, and there is sightseeing path connected in between. There are sentries guarding the place, and there will be Guard Changing at every o'clock.

Daxi Old Street
Having the best reserved Baroque architecture, one can feel the motive and unique architecture right at one glance. The Baroque style of the Daxi Old Street mixed the traditional Fukein architecture and became a unique style.

The most obvious feature is the extensive application of Chinese lucky pattern and decorated koji-pottery on the walls. This becomes the unique Daxi pattern of the old street. A building with a Greece roof integrates with Rome pillars, fish and bat patterns is common here. Nowadays Daxi Old Street became the old town imagery business cluster, there are traditional carving stores, Daxi dogan and toys shops on the street, and located one Dawen water melon museum on Chung-shan road old street also, display a lots of historical souvenir, it's the tourists favorite.

Daxi Blooming Oasis:
Daxi Blooming Oasis has the scale of 15 hectares. Now there is a lavender plantation of 1 hectare area, and a 2 hectares of rainbow flower garden composed of several kinds of flowers. The air in the garden is full of the lavender aromatic flavor. The garden cares about the natural ecosystem harmony specially, the trees growing in the garden are all kept naturally. When the autumn comes, the lavender blooms and the garden purples. That will be a spectacular landscape of lonely trees, purple flowers and white Egrets worth of expecting.

Sileng hot spring:
Sileng hot spring is located at the border between Taoyuan County and Yilan County. The landforms of the roots of the mountain and the valley are famous for wild hot springs among climbers. The mountain trail has been constructed now,and it becomes very convenient to go down to the valley and enjoy the hot spring there. The origin of the spring is kept undeveloped, and the scenery is remained primitive. Though the way up to it is very steep, it is better to have a local guide leading to the place.

History of Cihu
Cihu was formly named Piwei. The late President, Chiang Kai-shek, was fond of this place because its view resembled his hometown, Fenghua in Zhejiang Province. After Dongkou Guesthouse was established in 1959, the later president used to spend a lot of time living here. The guesthouse was renamed Cihu Guesthouse by the late president in memory of his mother?s kindness and love in 1962. Unfortunately, the later president passed away in 1975 and his coffin was temporarily placed here. Therefore, the guesthouse was renamed Cihu Mausoleum. The performance of guards switching duty every hour always attracts the attention of a great number of visitors.

Swans at Cihu:
Cihu has black swans and white swans. Each has its own serial number for the sake of management. To separate their gender, the loops are worn on their right foot for female and left for male. There were 89 swans at maximum but only ten or so are left currently. The swans symbolize purity, loyalty and elegance. Late President Jiang applied the symbolism on his employment, too.

Cihu Mausoleum:
Originally known as ?Piwei,? Cihu also known as "Tung Kuo"(the "tunnel exit") since it is right next to the exit of Baiji Tunnel. Early times when Jiang Jie-shi traveled here, he saw this place resemble his hometown Fenghua and reminded him of his mother, Madam Wang. Thus, the place was renamed "Cihu" (meaning "mercy lake") in 1962 in memory of Jiang's mother. The place was coverted into Cihu Mausoleum when his remains were placed here in 1975.

Back Cihu:
Back Cihu used to be a military-controlled area where the government built five combat offices in April,1964 as an evacuation base when re-conquering China, according to the plan of the Ministry of National Defense in the 1970s.

In the shape of crescent, Back Cihu was formly named "Lungguo maipi". Since the palce was quite secret and secluded, in case of a Chinese Communist Invasion, war reserved tunnels and five official residences were built to serve as the command offices in the 1960s. Being a military control zone for a long time, Back Cihu was able to preserve its ecology considerably well. Camphor trees and Taiwan Incense Cedar were easily seen in Back Cihu. Moreover, the walk by the late was a perfect spot to watch birds, butterflies and maples.