Taoyuan Lotus Festival - Family Agritourism and Lotus Flower Appreciation
The Taoyuan Lotus Festival is a long-standing event in Taoyuan City. By 2024, it has been held for the 26th time and is known by the beautiful name "Guanyin in the North, Baihe in the South."
Since 2018, the Lotus Garden Leisure Agriculture Area has attracted over one million visitors annually during the Lotus Festival. The event combines surrounding leisure farms and tourism lotus gardens to offer various agricultural experiences and one-day tour packages. Local lotus-related agricultural specialty products, signature cuisine, and derivative products are abundant, providing visitors with diverse choices.
The Taoyuan Lotus Festival is held during the lotus blooming season each year from July to August. In the Guanyin Lotus Garden Leisure Agriculture Area, lotus flowers are the main highlight, featuring lotus music performances, children's theater performances, food and agricultural education, agritourism excursions, and unique agricultural experiences.
Five Senses Experience Activities - Discovering Local Food Culture and Heritage
Lotus flowers combined with local industries offer various unique DIY experiences, such as Melon Elementary School, lotus seed peeling, handmade lotus leaf rice, and more. Visitors can learn about Guanyin's agricultural development and local food and agriculture industry, understand edible parts and nutritional components of aquatic plants like lotus flowers and seed pods, and learn about the farm-to-table process of lotus flowers, establishing green consumption habits and implementing food and agricultural education.
Cultural performances are organized by various bureaus of Taoyuan City, including the Department of Cultural Affairs, Department of Hakka Affairs, and Indigenous Peoples Administration, presenting weekend performance activities to promote the beauty of the city's arts and culture, Hakka culture, and indigenous characteristic performances.
Local Recommended Must-Visit Attractions
Xinwu Ocean Hakka Culture Leisure Agriculture Area, Xinwu Green Tunnel, Lunping Cultural Landscape Park, Yong'an Fishing Port, Guanyin Caota Dune Geopark, Qingtang Park, Taoyuan Children's Art Museum, Baishajia Lighthouse, Taoyuan Guanxin Algal Reef Wildlife Refuge, Yong'an Conch Culture Center
Recommended Highlights ⇢ Hundred-Person Lotus Banquet, Northern Guanyin Famous Lotus Exhibition
Local Recommended Must-Try Foods
Datian Lotus Garden, Lin Family Ancient House Leisure Farm, Lianhe Garden Leisure Farm, Water Lotus Hometown Farm, Hezhu Farm, A-Chang Uncle's Gourmet House, Monet's Garden, Hao Ke Canteen, Shui Lai Qing She, Qian Gu Culture Center
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