Wuho Tea Farm, Megaliths, and Tropic of Cancer

The Wuho plateau, located in Ruisui Township, is famous for its tea farms, which mainly grow and process varieties of partially fermented oolong tea. But there are other attractions as well -- the Tropic of Cancer marker, and the Wuho megaliths.

The two two-meter megaliths stand upright beside Highway 9, about two kilometers from the Ruisui Railway Station. Legend has it that they are the transformed bodies of twins who became husband and wife, and hid in this area to escape a sentence of death imposed upon them by their outraged tribe. Archaeologists believe, however, that they are the relics of a prehistoric civilization linked to the Beinan megalithic culture that existed at Beinan in Taitung County. Not far away, on the left side of the road, a white monument in the shape of a sundial marks the location of the Tropic of Cancer.