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Aged City, Tainan, is famous not only for it dishes and historic spots, but also for its various ecologic environment. In An-Nan Area of Tainan City, Sih-Cao is one famous ecologic reserve with international level.

Sih-Cao preserve wetlands to cultivate various birds and hundreds of plants, including red sea olive, olive plum, and sea eggplant, etc, salt water grass.

Behide Sihcao Dajhong Temple, the mangrove area is ever the most abundant area of olive plum forest. Taiwan government ever set this channel for mangrove reserve in 1988 and to be the best observation are of mangrove ecology. Even though this channel is shorter than 200 meter, it contains three kinds of mangrove: the most is sea eggplant, the second is olive plum, and the last is red sea olive.

Between these three mangrove area, there are trails and fences for visiting.
To observe Sih-Cao mangrove, visitors could climb the small slope behind Dajhong Temple to overview the whole area, watch the top of mangrove , and overlook the birds activities. In the mangrove reserve, visitors could also watch six kind of tidal crabs in tidal ditches and mudskippers in the channel, the west side of Dajhong Temple.

In additional to ecology observation, Tainan historic spots, salt field culture, and famous dishes are all important tourist spots in Sih-Cao tour and appropriate for family journey.

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