Taroko Valley in Taiwan My wife and I visited the Taroko Valley National Park in the central part of eastern Taiwan last December. The valley was so deep that if you looked down at the bottom of the valley from the road, you would feel dizzy. The guide board read that it took 250 million years for the mountain stream to carve the rocks and form the gorge.
As you can see in the picture above, the color of the rock is grayish white because the whole mountain is made of marble. Therefore, the Taroko Valley is nicknamed “the marble gorge.”
Later, we visited a marble factory. There was a giant saw cutting a marble stone with a deafening noise. We were then guided to the marble exhibition hall, where we saw various marble statues including tigers and dragons that looked as if they were going to pounce at any moment.
Constant dripping wears away the stone
250 million years of dripping
Forms a national park
As you can see in the picture above, the color of the rock is grayish white because the whole mountain is made of marble. Therefore, the Taroko Valley is nicknamed “the marble gorge.”
Later, we visited a marble factory. There was a giant saw cutting a marble stone with a deafening noise. We were then guided to the marble exhibition hall, where we saw various marble statues including tigers and dragons that looked as if they were going to pounce at any moment.
Constant dripping wears away the stone
250 million years of dripping
Forms a national park
点滴が 岩を穿ちて 太魯閣渓
I also visited Taroko valley in Taiwan,in 2007.
ReplyDeleteWhen I passed through the Taiwan East coast raiway line by train,I saw many mountains made by the marble stone.So I felt that it is easy to construct the marble buildings in Taiwan.The scenery is great and wide!
In Taroko,a kind Taiwanese man taught me "Those are Swallow holls" in English.Swallow holls mean "燕子口".