05.2019 Story
Travel notes in Asia Cement Corporation Eco-Park
Far Eastern Memorial Foundation / Xu Jingfang


As a member of the group, although it has been known for a long time that the Hualien Factory of Asia Cement Corporation has a large-scale butterfly ecological park, it seldom goes to the East because it lives in the western half of Taiwan. This business trip to Hualien, finally had the opportunity to see the beautiful butterflies.
Everyone knows that Butterfly Eco-Park is located in Hualien Factory of Asia Cement Corporation, but many people probably don't know how to get to the factory. In fact, if you take the Taiwanese Railway, you can get off at Hualien Station or Xincheng Station, enjoy the beautiful scenery of the East Coast along the road, slowly put aside the urban customs, and let your mood enter the holiday mode. In addition, you can also consider taking domestic flights. It takes only 40 minutes to move quickly from the cement jungle in the city to the beautiful scenery of Hualien. Even better, Hualien Asia Cement Corporation provides 20 minibuses. As long as you make an appointment in advance, you can arrange to transfer them to the Asia Cement Corporation Eco-Park, no matter which mass transit point in Hualien. It's also a good choice for people who don't want to spend too much traffic time.

The park is divided into three major themes, namely, the Bamboo Insect Park, the Butterfly Park and the Protophytic Park. Firstly, we came to the bamboo insect area with transformer ability. Bamboo stick insect, also known as'?', is a herbivorous insect. There are about 28 species in Taiwan and about 2,500 species in the world. It is good at mimicking leaves or branches to avoid natural enemies. Because of their first-class camouflage skills, Asia Cement Corporation specially arranged a "suite" for bamboo insects to have a fixed home in order to facilitate management and roll call. Visitors will be invited to try to locate the bamboo insect. Usually when the answer is revealed, they will be surprised. Among them, "leaf? Bamboo insect" is just like a leaf with veins on its body; "green pepper bamboo insect" like its name, likes to disguise itself as a long green pepper; the name "ghost bamboo insect" sounds mysterious, its native place is Australia, and its appearance is very mysterious. The tone is like dead leaves, hidden in the deciduous heap, it will never be found; to Taiwan native species of "bamboo stick insect", it is really like a green slender branch, and it also emits a special aroma similar to human oyster. These natural camouflage experts are amazing.






















