A long driving day across the south with a lunch stop at Lotus Pond.
South Link Highway drive
Lotus Pond Dragon and Tiger Pagodas
Arrive Sun Moon Lake
Activities
🛕temple
Lotus Pond Dragon and Tiger Pagodas
蓮池潭 龍虎塔
11:30
⏱️1.5 hours
Two seven-storey pagodas reached through dragon and tiger mouths along a zigzag bridge, with lunch nearby.
Pro Tips
- •Enter through the dragon mouth, exit through the tiger
- •Reopened April 2025 after renovation
- •Interiors about 08:00-18:00, free
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Arrive Sun Moon Lake
涵碧樓
14:00
⏱️3 hours
Continue to Sun Moon Lake and check in at The Lalu (check-in from 15:00).
Pro Tips
- •360 km and about 6 hours 20 minutes of driving before stops
Getting Around
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Hotel Royal Chihpen → Lotus Pond
3 hours 20 minutes164 km
Leave ~08:00. Highway 9 South Link to Kaohsiung. Whole day about 360 km, 6 h 20 min of driving
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Lotus Pond → Sun Moon Lake
3 hours196 km
Food & Dining
☀️
lunch
Near Lotus Pond
🌙
dinner
Shuishe village