Summary: since the typhoon struck in 2008 -that massive hotel that fell on its face for all the world to see, remember?- the sand has been accumulating, and the landscape threatens with further floods and lanslides.
Considering that’s the actual location of the Wushe incident, the site of Mona Rudao’s Mhebu village, and Mhebu’s namesake, which means shrouded in steam, because it’s on top of the hot spring, I say it’s a good thing it should stop being a tourist area.
Give it back to the Seediq. Don’t let them live there of course, it’s not geologically stable, but they should be able to let nature table it over, and be able to hunt and grow stuff on their ancestral land.
[quote=“hansioux”]Considering that’s the actual location of the Wushe incident, the site of Mhebu village, and Mhebu’s namesake, which means covered by steam, because it’s on top of the hot spring, I say it’s a good thing it should stop being a tourist area.
Give it back to the Seediq. Don’t let them live there of course, it’s not geologically stable, but they should be able to let nature table it over, and be able to hunt and grow stuff on their ancestral land.[/quote]
Oh, that’s even better. Didn’t know that. Totally agree.
80% of the current residents have left. There are a few hold outs who accuse the government “of just doing things their way”. Well, sweetheart, if you mind the government, don’t call 110 or any other emergency sevices when your hotel is the one whobbling and you get carrie dby the river/drowned in mud. That place is a death trap. And given weather patterns, it can only get worse.
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Yeah, the hot spring was a holy site for the Seediq, and the Japanese didn’t have much access to it, until they killed off most of the Seediq, force located them to an island in the middle of the river, and then killed most of those people again.
Afterwards, the Japanese renamed the place Fuji onsen because there’s a mountain to the Southwest (Mu’an shan today) that looks similar to the Fuji mountain, so they named the mountain and the hot spring after mount Fuji.
Then the KMT took over, and couldn’t stand anything named Fuji, so they changed that to Lushan for… no real reason at all.
There are a few nice hot spring hotels to the back of it but the whole place was an illegal construction to begin with, a complete mess and has been for over 20 or 30 years.
I don’t have earphones at work but this might be worth watching