Yehliu Geopark-Jiufen Old Street-Shifen Waterfall
Updated: Jun 29
Yehliu Geopark ~ Jiufen Old Street ~ Shifen Waterfall ~ Shifen Old Street (include sky lantern releasing)
The total length from the entrance of Yehliu Geopark to the front of the headland is about 1.7 kilometers, and the widest point is less than 300 meters. Because the direction of the coast extension is almost perpendicular to the stratigraphic tectonic line, and the influence of geological processes such as wave erosion, rock weathering, plate movement and tectonic movement, it has produced a rare topography and geological landscape in the world. Yehliu Geopark is divided into three areas: the first area is the main concentration area of mushroom rock, ginger stone and candlestick stone. In addition to observing the evolution process of mushroom rocks, you can also enjoy the famous candlestick stones, ice cream stones, ginger stones, pot holes, dissolution disks and joints. The second arrondissement is most famous for the Queen's Head. In this area, you can enjoy a small landscape composed of fairy shoes, dragon head stones, diamonds, earth stones, etc., as well as mushroom rocks, clumps, and nodules. this area is also an important ecological conservation and protection area in Yehliu Geopark.
【Jiufen Old Street】The "Jiufen Old Street", which is similar to the movie scene of the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki, is dominated by four roads such as "three horizontal and one vertical", surrounded by many stairs, and is lonely on the hill. If you want to stay away from the bustling street for a while, you might as well walk into the tea house in Jiufen, the tea house in Jiufen has its own characteristics, in addition to tasting tea, including the ingenuity of ceramic tea sets, all kinds of tea from Taiwan, tea cooking methods and tea ceremonies, tea house design and life aesthetics, exquisite tea catering and mountain city scenery in the morning and evening of the four seasons, Stop here to make a good pot of tea, enjoy a leisurely time, and enjoy the exclusive beauty of the mountain town.
[Shifen Waterfall + Old Street + Sky Lantern] is located in Pingxi District, New Taipei City, between Dahua Station and Shifen Station of Pingxi Line Railway, it is a curtain waterfall, the waterhole below the waterfall is extremely deep, the waterfall is like a thousand horses galloping, pouring down, it feels like a white silk, falling into a large wide and deep pool, the water vapor formed by the waterfall often permeates the waterfall pool, and when the sun shines, it presents a rainbow, showing the clear sky and neon dazzling, so it has the reputation of rainbow abyss. Shifen Waterfall is an anticlinal waterfall because the rock formation tends to be opposite to the water flow, which is similar to the Niagara Falls in North America, which has earned it the reputation of "Taiwan Niagara Falls".
[Shifen Sky Lantern], also known as Kong Ming Lantern, is a kind of flying machine made by using the principle of hot air rising. In Taiwan, the tradition of sky lanterns is particularly prevalent. The Sky Lantern Festival is the most famous sky lantern festival in Taiwan, and every year during the Lantern Festival, tens of thousands of sky lanterns rise into the sky from Pingxi, and the scene is spectacular.
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