In fact, the GiuCheinGon Temple trail is not popular for people to visit, one of the reason is far away from the cable station, secondly, the length of the tail is only 400 meters, a bit too short for hiking, the only way of the distinctive part is GiuCheinGon Temple. However, if you believe folk religions, it’s worthy to visit because there is a giant stone looks like turtle, the stone is very cute to has tortoiseshells and limbs. For point of view from Taiwan folk religion, the turtle is not the only one with magical story, but the GiuCheinGon Temple which in Wenshan district next to us, therefore we are interested to visit.

The GiuCheinGon is a Taoism temple, the history of the temple is not long since 1966, according to the brief of the temple, in 1984 the volunteers would like to reclaim a lounge in the temple, then found a piece of rock which look like turtle head, onward, they found the rock with tortoiseshells even the limbs are obvious, it’s really rare to have this kind of stone, in the religious sense it is "God", then they wrapped the rock with red cloth to display publicly.

Taiwan is a place of freedom religion, regarding the turtle legendary, whether believe or not, it’s really worthy to come here for a nature turtle look-like giant stone.

Transportation:
GiuCheinGon temple trails is near by the forest of apricot, also can from the trail of ZhangShan Temple, ZhangShan Temple is one of the places gathering several trails, from the temple downward can reach the Dragon trail and Zhi Nan Temple, in the front of characters “ZhangShan Temple”, the direction to Lao Chuan borough may reach the trail GiuCheinGon temple as well.

Distance from cable station: ★★★★
(To ZhangShan Temple from cable station is around 1.6 kilometers, about 25 minutes by walk, but it will take 50 minutes by walk to go to the GiuCheinGon temple which is considerable distance, or you may take a Maokong shuttle bus to get off at apricot forest then by walk around 20 minutes.)

Degree of difficulty: ☆☆☆☆★
Culture Index: ☆☆★★★ (religious culture)

Reference material
Advisory: Geotechnical Engineering Office of Taipei City Government, the Chief, Yeh, Han-ren

books:
Maokong for treasure 2015.8 Taipei City Government Works Geotechnical Engineering Office

brochure:
Maokong cable Tsui trip propagation 2014.8 Taipei City Government Tourism Office

website:
Taipei leisure agriculture THEMANET http://www.recreational-agriculture.taipei//mp.asp?mp=10500K

Taipei Mountain Trail pro thematic network - two grid Mountains
http://www.geo.gov.taipei/np.asp?ctNode=56598&mp=106051