Erbazi Botanic Garden

Updates : 2023-04-27

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Introduction

Dubbed as the Sunken Emerald, the garden is about 150 hectares in size and only about 20 minutes away from downtown Taipei City by car. The pristine forest in the park generates a large amount of refreshing aromas. You can get in-depth knowledge about the forests by the hiking trail along the banks of the Erbazi River through the road sign information by the roadside. This place is an ideal destination for family outings during the weekend.

How to Get There

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Xizhi Old Street

Today’s Zhongzheng Road was formerly known as Shuif Fanjiao Street, which was an important shipping transit stop along the Keelung River. It was also the starting point of Xizhi’s development and is known as “Xizhi’s first street.” There are many remnants of the area’s past glory, such as Niuchoutou Harbor and markets, barns, churches, and fortifying walls.

Sanxia Blue Tie-dye

Blue Dye is a traditional Taiwanese cloth dying technique. Woad, once the cash crop of Taiwan was used as colorant. Crisscrossing blue and white flower cloth was made after a complicated dying procedure. Sanxia used to be the center of the cloth dying industry of Taiwan during the late Qing dynasty. Up until this day, one can still see plaques of dye workshop along the street. Almost every family is into cloth dying work at the time, and there are different features and formulas in each one. The Sanxia Cloth Dying industry no longer has the glamour that it used to have, but many of the dying architectures were preserved. The Sanxia Dye Workshop (Blue Dye Display Center) was established for the blue dye culture. The most important thing besides understanding blue dye culture here is to experience blue dyes DIY, creating your own very unique blue dye product!