Taiwan: Day 5 Peacock Garden 日月潭孔雀园 Chung Tai Chan Monastery 中台禅寺

Before we depart to Qingjing Farm (清境农场), we stopped by 2 more tourist spots: Sun Moon Lake Peacock Garden (日月潭孔雀园) and Chung Tai Chan Monastery (中台禅寺).

Sun Moon Lake Peacock Garden is still part of Sun Moon Lake area, hence we went there for about 10 minutes to take a look. Peacocks are undeniably beautiful. This peacock garden is small but is very well decorated. 

The entrance of the peacock garden.

From the entrance. This small area is kinda pretty isn't it. Nature = Beauty.

Look at the peacocks!

WOW! So elegant!

The pretty male peacock and me!

After our visit to Sun Moon Lake (日月潭), we continued our journey to Chung Tai Chan Monastery (中台禅寺), which is also a great tourist spot in Puli (埔里), Nantou (南投) area.

This building was completed in 2001 and was the world's tallest Buddhist building from 2001 until 2006 and the world's tallest Buddhist temple since 2001. The monastery complex is dominated by the massive central building with its 37 floors and surrounded by a serious of ancillary halls and statues. ~~ information from roughguide.com and Wikipedia

The side entrance to the monastery

There's a very nice pond with a bronze bridge. 

Trying to act cute like the statue. XD

The very traditional and grand bronze bridge.

Looks very royal right.

Cannot stop taking photo with the nice pond. =D Tyng Tyng and me! 

The building is really well-designed and there are huge statue inside.

Me, before entering the main hall -- the only place that tourist can visit without application.

According to our tour guide, this huge pillar with 4 faces, representing Feng Tiao Yu Shun (风调雨顺), that means everything is going very well. 

The Ceiling.

Before we leave the place, we had a look at the area. There's another temple directly opposite us. Look at the huge statue. It must be another famous and happening temple. 

This temple really amazed me, with the awesome architecture. Really thankful that uncle recommended this place to us. =D There's actually a museum inside that area, but it was under renovation. So, maybe next time, if there's a chance, I'll come back?