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Taiwan Travel: Beautiful Landscape of Yehliu

Beautiful shot taken at Yehliu Geopark, few years back during my study in Taiwan.

Yehliu has always been my favourite place in Taiwan. Hope you have an opportunity to visit Yehliu in the future. =)

Taiwan Travel: Waterfall of Wulai, New Taipei City

"Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall running wild and free." - Chris Tomlin

You can see the waterfall once you have alighted from the train. The water looks white-ish from a distance. We visited the waterfall back then in late April.

My camera lens cannot capture the whole length of the waterfall. So here is the bottom part of the waterfall.

The bottom part of Wulai waterfall Taiwan

The volume of the water is not a lot that day so we managed to see the rocks below the river. Okay, that's supposed to be a river when the waterfall is overflowing with water from the rains. XD

The bottom of the waterfall at Wulai Taiwan

You can take the cable car ride for NTD220 (not sure if there is a change to the price) to bring you on the top of the mountain. But the cable car looks kinda unnerving from below so we, the cowardice, decided not to ride it. XD

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Spring in Taiwan: Yangmingshan Flower Clock Trail

If you like to walk around the mountain while enjoying the natural surroundings, you will love walking in Yangmingshan Trail. There are a lot of trails in Yangmingshan but since I did not really have a lot of time, I just walked around the Flower Clock area. (To read on how to get to Yangmingshan Flower Clock, click here. )

There is a small waterfall along the way.

A field of lavender. They are still small though.

You shall never go hungry in Taiwan. After a few steps into the trail, there's a food market selling tea egg, fried chicken and other stuffs like sausages. Awesome!

We came out from the other side of flower clock. Here is one last shot of another pretty flowers along the way. So pretty!!! I must pay a premium to enjoy this kind of view in Singapore. Hmmph!

We're going to explore another place in Yangmingshan after this. Stay tune! =)

Taiwan Travel: Cloudy day at Yehliu Geopark, New Taipei

After listening to my weekend travel stories all the time, my aunt and uncle were adamant to go for a trip together. And they propose to go to Yehliu. Which I don't mind because I did not know how to go to Yehliu, since it's located outside Taipei. Hahaha.

Everything located outside Taipei is considered a challenge for me. =P

You can take a bus from Taipei Main Station (same station from which you can take a bus to the airport, see this post . The journey from Taipei to Yehliu is roughly around 90 minutes. The bus' final destination is actually Keelung so if you don't know where to stop, you have to open your eyes widely (or ask the driver to let you know when it's near Yehliu) and alight down when you see this sign.

You need to walk a bit of a distance to reach the main attraction, Yehliu Geopark. The place is usually crowded by tourist buses so you won't miss it.

If you are collecting entry tickets from all around the world, Yehliu Geopark's ticket will be a pretty addition to your collection. The admission price is NTD25 for students.

Yehliu is famous for its natural landscape. Before you moan about seeing rocks, you should see the view of the cape.

And let's get going with the rocks, shall we? The rocks in Yehliu are eroded by seawater and times. But the formation is somehow..pleasing to the eyes. Like the formation of these mushroom rocks.

The pathways are built all around the rock formation so you can enjoy viewing all kind of rock formations inside the park.

A statue for the boy who was drown here before. Did not know about the complete background details though.

The statue of drowned boy Yehliu Geopark Taiwan

A bridge is built on the formation of Sea Groove (I had no idea on these rocks so I took the information from Yehliu Geopark's website). XD

This is the star of the rocks, the Queen's Head. There's always a long queue of tourists surrounding the Queen's Head. The neck of the Queen is getting spoilt both by nature and mankind. So the geopark staff is pretty strict with the tourists and they will only allow us to take picture with the Queen's Head one by one. You better get your camera ready when your turn is near because the time allocated for each person to take picture is pretty short. Talking about seconds here.

The weather was quite chilly when we came. Luckily it was not raining though. But I love this kind of weather, I don't like to walk under the hot sun. Hahaha.

So if you are like me, you shall visit Yehliu during those no-sun-no-rain days. And please do not go here during typhoon days!!! =)