National parks offer discounted tickets for national holiday
By Esme Yeh / Staff reporter
Concession admission tickets would be offered to everyone who visits one of 13 designated national forest recreation parks during the upcoming Double Ten National Day holiday, the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency said.
The three-day Double Ten National Day weekend starts on Friday.
The agency governs 19 national forest recreation parks nationwide, and 13 of them would allow all visitors to buy a concession ticket for admission during the holiday, the agency’s Forest Recreation Division official Chuang Che-wei (莊哲瑋) said.
Tourists are pictured at the Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area in Taichung in an undated photograph.
Photo courtesy of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency
Taiwan’s national forest recreation parks governed by the agency attracted a collective total of nearly 3.39 million visitors last year, he said, adding that the preferential event is aimed to draw more visitors this year.
The 13 forest parks offering preferential tickets include the Taipingshan (太平山), Neidong (內洞), Manyueyuan (滿月圓), Dongyanshan (東眼山) and Lalashan (拉拉山) national forest recreation areas in northern Taiwan; Dasyueshan (大雪山) and Basianshan (八仙山) national forest recreation areas in central Taiwan; Alishan (阿里山), Shuangliu (雙流) and Kenting (墾丁) national forest recreation areas in Southern Taiwan; and Jhihben (知本), Chihnan (池南) and Fuyuan (富源) national forest recreation areas in eastern Taiwan.
Chuang said some forest parks were not included in the event mainly because they are under renovation — such as the Siangyang (向陽) and Tengjhih (藤枝) national forest recreation areas — or operated by other units — such as Wuling National Forest Recreation Area (武陵國家森林遊樂區), which is run by Wuling Farm.
Guanwu National Forest Recreation Area (觀霧國家森林遊樂區) offers free admission as usual, he added.
Each forest park features distinctive landscapes as autumn sets in, the agency said.
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