2015/11/24 
No Comments Butterfly valley
The last destination I wanted to go is Maolin. It is a place in the southern part of the Central mountain area. There is a river valley where a lot of butterflies fly from the whole Taiwan to hibernate during winter. In this place there is also Rukai tribe located.
In the first village Maolin, you can see the butterflies areas. The main species is violet butterfly, which can gather here in thousands and thousands. If you visit a museum they will be very happy to play you a short video about the valley in English.
If you continue further there are two other villages the second one is Duona village, which is famous for the aboriginal tribe and the special way they built their houses using the black stone slates.
I stayed in a camp site in between the villages called Da En Gorge. The place is nice and for 500 NTD I got a nice room, for 4 people but stayed there just by myself. The young owners can speak english so dont worry to ask them. The place is good for camping and they are making their own bread and you can taste some good food in their restaurant. I met there a professor from Tainan university who took me in the morning to nearby waterfall. You have to walk maybe 5 km but the place is really nice and in summer you can have also nice swim in the little pond.
Unfortunately during the big typhoon in 2009 all the hot springs were destroyed so it is no longer possible to go have a rest in there.