It also happened to be near the Mahebo Forest, where in 1930 the Seediq leader Mona Rudao had made his last stand in his resistance to the Japanese.
招待所旁的「馬赫坡」林地，便是 12 年前（1930 年）賽德克族頭目莫那魯道帶領族人反抗日人壓迫的最後退守據點。