Guandu Temple
Cliffside Taoist shrine with an eighty-meter cave tunnel of carved deities overlooking a river.
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This guide to Guandu Temple opens with an omen: three ancient banyan trees at the gate that died together in a single night in 1895, weeks before Japanese troops landed on the island. It reaches back to the temple's founding around 1661, when a traveling monk carried a golden statue of the sea goddess Mazu here from China, and to the merchants who later built her a proper shrine. Listen for the eighty-meter tunnel bored into the cliffside, lined with carved guardian spirits.
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