For tourists traveling to Taiwan the man made Xian Feng Ling Sun Moon Cave could be an interesting place to visit for adventurous souls. The 52m long cave is noted for its complicated web of chambers, dead end side turnings and shortcuts.
The cave was carved into a small rock on the side of Mt. Wandou overlooking the tiny hamlet of Taziwan in the southwestern corner of Nantou County in central Taiwan by a retired local Chen Ching Chuan over a period of ten years between 1969 and 1979.
This place is a claustrophobic’s nightmare! You have to bend to get through the entry arch and though there are places in the tunnel, where you can stand erectly on your feet but for a larger part of the path, you need to crawl.
After entering the cave, you step into the ‘Living Room’ on the left. This is one of the larger chambers with rough chairs and a table hewn out of the rock. The narrow passages connecting the various fanciful chambers are narrow, low enclosed spaces. An arch to the right leads to the largest chamber the ‘Conference Room’. Further, inside traveling through the narrow tunnels you will come to the ‘Cave of the Sun’ and the ‘Cave of the Moon’. You could be greeted by bats and standing rainwater in these grandiosely christened chambers.
The son of the creator of this wonder lives in a solitary house next to the cave, is willing to take any visitor on a guided tour of the cave. If you happen to visit Taiwan include the Xiang Feng Ling Sun Moon Cave in your itinerary, you will definitely enjoy it.
Source:China Post
Image:English Taiwan
