Taichung World Flora Expo now has been kicking off in Houli , Fengyuan, Waipu Parks with the total area of 60.88 hectares. How to visit and enjoy the trip in Flora Expo Park? Taichung City Government has listed the top 10 eye-catching sites among three major parks, including Discovery pavilion, Listening to the sound of blossoms, International garden, Amazing world of Taiwan indigenous cultures in Houli forest expo site; Blossom pavilion, National Palace Museum new media gallery in Horse ranch park; Agri-tech and conservation pavilion and Harvest blessings pavilion in Waipu park in addition to the fairy tale fantasy area, land color palette of flower banquet in Fengyuan Huludun park etc. waiting for your 「spot check」.

The main exhibition area in Houli forest park,「Discovery Pavilion」, is applying the recycled plastic bricks, a kind of green construction materials, to build a bright space with the hollow out the vision and the air flowing freely to fuse with the existing old trees. The visitors can experience the ecological trip of Dajia river from the ocean entrance at 0 altitudes to the top of the Hsuehshan Range with the altitude of 3,886 meters. Some other performances with the visual shock are available for the visitors, and the special designs of temperature and humidity change in the exhibition hall can make you feel the warmth and humidity at the ocean entrance or the cold weather in the forest of Shue-pa mountains where you may feel like the real experiences on sites.

When you step out of the Discovery Pavilion, you will see a big smart interactive device with 15 meters of height named as「Listening to the sound of blossoms」, which is the biggest mechanical flower on earth is composed of 697 blossom simulating devices. Through the light and sound to make it move like breaths and change in colors and shadows by day or night to reflect the blooming and withering of the flowers.

「Amazing World of Taiwan Indigenous Cultures」covers 7 exhibition areas, originated from the legend of shooting sun of Atayal Group in Taichung to pass forward the idea of human living peacefully with the nature;「Fata’an Traditional Palakaw Sustainabile Fishing Area」is exhibiting the mixed water born or land plants and the themed artworks of 「Uhtan’e ho mimimiyo forest」 etc. to repeat the great indigenous culture of the indigenous people.

「International garden」 has invited 60 organizations from 31 countries among 5 continents, classified into Europe, America, Africa and Asia. The European gardens are delivering the eco-friendly concept like the wind wheel and corm flower exhibition of Netherlands in addition to the first recycled architecture exhibition hall in Taiwan. AIPH joint garden is composed of the fragrant herb garden, fish and vegetable symbiosis, insect hotel and green building etc. to show the recycled sustainability concept; in America, Africa, and Asia areas, the gardens are some special features constructions with landscape plants for showing the country specify features; Palau, Solomon Islands, and Marshall Islands etc. have decorated the gardens with white sands, palm, and some featured cultural artworks to show the island scenery. The Taiwanese garden right next to the aforementioned ones is using the traditional red bricks to show the passion and hospitality of Taiwanese with the design of old aged style.

Besides, 「Blossom Pavilion」in Houli horse ranch park is built as an 8-shapes circled construction with 2 round shaped buildings to split into two exhibition spaces of different sizes. The small one is「Orchid hall」, itself is a greenhouse and planned to be a long-term orchid exhibition to describe the development of the orchid industry in Taiwan; the big one is「Competition hall」to be built as a flower art hall to conduct all kinds of flower art competitions with the participation of the domestic or international flower art masters to show the extraordinary skills and techniques on the local planted flowers in addition to their original beauty.

「National Palace Museum new media gallery」is planned to be the interactive technology hall with the classical flowers and horses related cultural treasures, the popular items like「Jadeite Cabbage」,「Jade Brassica」and「One hundred stallions」painted by Giuseppe Castiglione etc., the visitors can enjoy seeing these classical artworks in a short distance.

The sightseeing spots in Waipu park can never be missed are「Harvest blessings pavilion」 and「Agri-tech and conservation pavilion」.「Harvest blessings pavilion」 is showing 4 major agricultural products like rice, fruit, fungus, and tea centered exhibitions to present the Taiwanese agricultural stories to the audience;「Agri-tech and conservation pavilion」has invited the「Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center」to exhibit with more than one thousand of species of precious plants to build a「Plant ark」 and show the endangered native plants in Taiwan, in addition, the high technologies applied to the agriculture etc..

Fengyuan Huludun exhibition area has built the first glass garden in Taiwan with the theme of「Happy wedding」 to plan a romantic wedding walkway for the newlyweds. Also, the「Fairy tale fantasy area」is designed from the love and parents-children love to be decorated with the mixed colors of the flowers to make it alive with the flowers weaving together. They are developed and matched with from the buds of the plants, then leverage the color changes from light to dark to reflect the bridal veils. It’s also the first piece of artwork accomplished by the flowers and plants grew from the young sprouts. The fifth exhibition area located in Huludun,「flower banquet」, has combined 4 on-site water scenery with the landscape art to target at the parents and children for creating a fantasy land as a「land palette」.