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The marble began as a tropical seabed of shells and coral, pressed and folded into stone and lifted into mountains, and the grey-and-white swirls in the cliffs are those layers stretched; Taiwan's ranges still rise several millimetres a year, among the fastest anywhere, and the river grinds down at the same rate to hold its bed, so the canyon is still being cut. The Central Cross-Island Highway threads the gorge on ledges and hand-cut tunnels above the river, with red bridges spanning the gap, built in the 1950s by veterans of the Nationalist army with hand tools; more than two hundred died, and the Eternal Spring Shrine, white and vermilion, stands over a waterfall on the far bank in their memory, rebuilt each time the gorge sweeps it away.\n\nThe gorge has been closed and opened in pieces since a magnitude 7.4 earthquake in April 2024 brought the cliffs down onto the road, and for now the way through is in release windows announced by the park, with Tianxiang, the terrace at the head of the gorge where the walls finally open out, the one recreation area that came back whole. Behind the visitor centre a boardwalk of close to 1,800 steps climbs 300 metres straight up the slope to the old Dekalun trail, once used by the Truku people whose villages sat on the gorge's terraces and whose name the park carries. The trails along the cliffs, the Tunnel of Nine Turns and the Shakadang beside its blue stream, are opened as the rock is stabilised. 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Its own path has been shut since the 2024 quake and is not due back before 2029. The view is from the far bank instead — the road opposite, or the Dekalun ridge, where you end up level with the shrine's bell tower.","https:\u002F\u002Fimg.jouvida.com\u002Fdestinations\u002F79\u002Fe1.webp",{"title":193,"description":194,"imageUrl":195,"attribution":196},"Climb the 1,800 steps of the Dekalun stairway","A boardwalk of close to 1,800 steps lifts you 300 metres in 1.3 kilometres, straight up the slope behind the visitor centre. From the top the Liwu comes out of its marble slot and spreads into the fan of farmland where it meets the Pacific. The path carries on to the Truku settlements of Dali and Datong, high above the canyon floor.","https:\u002F\u002Fimg.jouvida.com\u002Fdestinations\u002F79\u002Fe2.webp","\"View From Swallow Grotto in Taroko Gorge\" by edwin.11 · CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F2.0)",{"title":198,"description":199,"imageUrl":200,"attribution":201},"Walk the Tianxiang terrace at the head of the gorge","Tianxiang sits where the walls finally open out, and it is the one recreation area that came back whole after the quake. A suspension bridge crosses the Liwu to Xiangde Temple, and stone stairs climb the bluff behind it to a pagoda above the treetops. The short Tabido path runs the other way to a stone church.","https:\u002F\u002Fimg.jouvida.com\u002Fdestinations\u002F79\u002Fe3.webp","Ligin Lee \u002F Pexels",{"title":203,"description":204,"imageUrl":205,"attribution":206},"Cross the gorge inside a release window","The Central Cross-Island Highway threads hand-cut tunnels and cliff ledges above the Liwu, red bridges spanning the gap. Since the quake the stretch between the gorge mouth and Tianxiang opens only five times a day and shuts from six in the evening. Miss the window and you wait at the barrier for hours.","https:\u002F\u002Fimg.jouvida.com\u002Fdestinations\u002F79\u002Fe5.webp","\"Taiwan - Taroko Gorge National Park\" by Richard Masoner \u002F Cyclelicious · CC BY-SA 2.0 (creativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F2.0)",[208,213,218],{"boxType":209,"title":210,"body":211,"deepBody":212,"sourceNote":157},"geology","Marble that was once a coral seabed","The grey-and-white swirls in Taroko's cliffs are stretched and folded layers of marble — stone that started life as a tropical seabed of shells and coral.","Calcium-rich sediments settled on the ocean floor more than 200 million years ago and hardened into limestone. Buried deep and squeezed by the collision that raised Taiwan's mountains, the limestone recrystallised into marble; the banding you see is that ancient bedding, bent like taffy by the forces still lifting the range today.",{"boxType":214,"title":215,"body":216,"deepBody":217,"sourceNote":157},"history","The shrine that keeps being swept away","The Eternal Spring Shrine above the road is a memorial the gorge itself keeps destroying. Rockfalls have carried it off, and it has been rebuilt more than once.","It honours the demobilised soldiers who blasted the Central Cross-Island Highway out of these cliffs with hand tools, roped over the river as they worked. The gorge that killed them is still shedding the same rock onto the road below.",{"boxType":219,"title":220,"body":221,"deepBody":222,"sourceNote":157},"did_you_know","A canyon still being carved","Taiwan's ranges climb several millimetres a year, among the fastest anywhere, and the Liwu grinds down at the same rate to hold its bed at sea level.","That race is why the canyon is a slot rather than a valley: the marble is hard enough to stand in near-vertical walls while the river saws its notch. The 2024 earthquake did the destructive half in one morning, dropping into the gorge the kind of volume the river shifts over centuries.",[224,230,235,241,246],{"phenomenon":225,"peakMonths":226,"note":227,"requiresDarkSky":228,"sortOrder":229},"chapter_peak",[90,95,100,105,130],"This is Taroko's settled dry season. The Liwu runs its clearest jade green against the marble, and days stay mild at 21–26°C. Rain and landslide risk are at their lowest, which makes it the safest window for driving the highway, where traffic moves in escorted convoys.",false,50,{"phenomenon":231,"peakMonths":232,"note":233,"requiresDarkSky":228,"sortOrder":234},"chapter_quiet",[110,115],"The early-summer plum rains settle in from mid-May and afternoon storms build. Humidity climbs and the Liwu greys with sediment, so its jade clarity is gone. Nothing shuts for the season, but a heavy day can close a trail section on slopes loosened by earthquakes.",51,{"phenomenon":231,"peakMonths":236,"note":239,"requiresDarkSky":228,"sortOrder":240},[120,125,237,238],9,10,"This is the peak of the typhoon season. September and October are Hualien's wettest months, and downpours run the Liwu grey and thunder through the side canyons. Rain on quake-loosened slopes closes trail sections and the highway at short notice, so any day's route can be lost.",52,{"phenomenon":242,"peakMonths":243,"note":244,"requiresDarkSky":228,"sortOrder":245},"chapter_edge",[161],"The typhoons fade and the gorge dries out. Rainfall roughly halves from October, the Liwu clears back toward jade, and mild days of 20–26°C return. 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