Zhangchun Bridge over the Liwu River in the Taroko National Park (Taiwan)

 In a drizzly chilly spring I ponder over the subtle meaning of your silence.
Your vastness is a kind of close intimacy.
The towering mountain walls lie flat at the bottom of my heart like a grain of sand.
Clouds and fog push gently by.
Lushness revolves and pauses in moisture.
The tenderness is like breath,
like the gentle falling of a leaf, the slow flight of a bird, and the blossoming of a tree

From the poem Taroko Gorge

Chen Li

Suspension Bridge spanning the Liwu River in the Taroko National Park (Taiwan)

The name, Taroko, means "magnificent and beautiful" in the Truku language of the indigenous Truku tribe. Legend has it, a Truku tribesman saw the beauty of the azure Pacific when he walked out of the gorge. Upon seeing the magnificent scene, he cried "Taroko!"

Legend