Sun Moon Lake and Nantou Cultural Experience Day Tour including Wine and Tea Tasting

Sightseeing  :  Taiwan  :  Taipei  :  Taipei  :  Day Trips

Join this relaxing full-day tour to Nantou and enjoy the gingerly picked must-go attractions along the famous Sun Moon Lake including the Wenwu Temple. Also visit Chung Tai Chan Monastery, the biggest Buddhist temple in the central Taiwan, and Guangxing Paper Mill for a paper making excursion. Enjoy Shaoxing Wine tasting at the Puli Winery that only uses the purest water in Taiwan and also Assam Tea tasting at the Liao Mayor Black Tea Story Land. You will be picked up at your hotel in Taipei City or Taipei Main Station at 9:00 am and proceed to Natou. Your first top is the Chung Tai Chan Monastery.

Chung Tai Chan Monastery, the biggest Buddhist temple in the central Taiwan, shows resemblance to a mosque. Walk in through a cooper gate weighing 5.5 tons, you’ll see the tremendous Four Heavenly Kings propping up the four corners. The museum beside collects lots of Buddhist cultural relics coming from Mainland China.

Puli, the town where Sun Moon Lake lies, boasts pure water that best suits wine brewing and paper hand-making. Visit the Puli Winery and sample the popular "Shaoxing Wine", one of the most famous varieties traditional Chinese wines fermented from rice. Afterwards stop by the paper mill and you can also make your own paper from fibers. Later, in a tea factory run by the previous mayor, sample the local Assam Tea, which was admiringly praised by the Emperor of Japan. Located beside Sun Moon Lake, Wenwu Temple boasts an excellent view. Come to worship Confucius for academic progress and pray in front of Guangong for well-being.

Attractions you will visit:

• Chung Tai Chan Monastery
• Puli Winery
• Guangxing Paper Mill
• Liao Mayor Black Tea Story Land
• Sun Moon Lake Wenwu Temple

When the tour ends, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Taipei City or Taipei Main Station.