There are many places of interest around Sun Moon Lake, including the following:
1.Wenwu Temple: Founded in 1932, located on the mountainside in the north of Sun Moon Lake, the main worship of Emperor Guan, and the other worship of Confucius, Yue Fei and get the name. The temple is dominated by golden yellow and stands majestically. Climb the slope of the apse of Wenwu Temple, you can overlook the Sun Moon Lake in the distance.
2.Peacock Garden: A zoo dedicated to peacocks located next to the Ring Lake Road, established in 1968. There are about 200 peacocks in the park, mainly blue peafowl.
3.Sun Moon Spring: From the Dazhu Lake trail you can enjoy the spectacular beauty of Sun Moon Spring, is the main water injected into Sun Moon Lake, take the water of Wanda River, intercept the stream water from the Wujie Dam, flow to the Sun Moon Lake by the water tunnel, because the terrain of the Wujie area is higher than the Sun Moon Lake, so the spring phenomenon is generated.
4.Xuanguang Temple: Get off at the pier of Xuanguang Temple in Sun Moon Lake, and you can visit Xuanguang Temple and Xuanzang Temple when you climb the mountain. Below Xuanguang Temple, there is Xuanzang's negative statue tablet. Both Xuanguang Temple and Xuanzang Temple were built to commemorate Master Xuanzang, but the former is a place to temporarily store Xuanzang's spirit bones, and the latter is a place to permanently store his spirit bones.
5.Ci'en Pagoda: Jiang Zhongzheng built it to commemorate his mother, Mrs. Wang. It is built on a mountain at an altitude of 954 meters, and the top of the tower is exactly 1,000 meters above sea level.
6.Youth Activity Center: Sun Moon Lake Youth Activity Center is a leisure and vacation place on the shore of Sun Moon Lake, with forest cabins and general rooms, which can accommodate about 320 people. There is also a vast cedar forest area, which can be used as a training ground for social groups to explore and train in the wilderness.
7.Ida Shao (Dehua Society): The old name is Dehua Society, Huafan Society, the original name of the Shao people is Buji Society, the Shao people mainly live here, and it is the village with the largest population on the side of Sun Moon Lake. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek liked to take a boat to watch the mountain songs and dances of the Shao nationality, so that the society became an important aboriginal cultural park in Sun Moon Lake.
These places of interest have their own characteristics, which not only show the natural scenery of Sun Moon Lake, but also reflect the local history, culture and ethnic customs.