Taiwan's only water-based golden daylily sea, where vast golden hues complement the snow-white mountain forests

By MOOK Scenic Spots Editorial Team

The daylily season may first bring to mind the daylily seas of eastern Taiwan, but apart from that region, there are also several beautiful daylily-growing spots across Taiwan. The Sun Moon Lake Living Basin in Nantou boasts living basin grassland peat soil, which accounts for just 1% of the world’s land surface—and even less, at just 0.3%, when excluding polar regions—making it an extremely rare type of peat soil. It is one of the world’s few peat soil areas and the only basin-shaped grass peat area on Earth. While the daylily season usually takes place in August and September, this year there’s an added treat: a flatland variety that began blooming in May, with the blooming period expected to last about a month.