It's been raining in Taipei constantly for the last 3 days, and the day i went to Siaoyoukang was no different, in fact i think it rained the more that day than the last 2 combined. Siaoyoukang is a national park about an hour north of Taipei. Apparently there are large areas of hot springs due to the volcanic activity below. Unfortunaley i wasn't able to see much of it due to the thick fog that only allowed you to see a few feet in front of you. The picture below is what we went to see, the second is us standing about 5 metres in front of it...
Even though we didn't see the main feature of the area, we still saw some small hot springs bubbling away. I was even able to warm my hand us on some of the surrounding rocks.
After attempting to see the springs, we headed further north and went to the Yehlie Geopark. This a beach full of weirdly shaped rock formations, supposedly one shaped like the queens head. Its an iconic symbol in Taiwan. We spent a fair amount of time walking around the area before going to a restaurant to try some of the famous sea food.
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| The Queens Head |
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| The Princesses head, when the Queen neck errodes/ collapses, the princess will be the new Queen to keep the tourism going! |
When we had refuelled and dried slightly, we ventured back out into the pouring rain and down the cost to an old gold mining area that used to be run by the Japanese. We we able to go in some old restored Japanese houses and i even touched a bar of gold worth over 3 hundred million Taiwanese dollars.
The waterfall above flowed over an old gold mining area, where the river met the sea you could the colour difference between sea water and the fresh water due to the yellow sediment from the hills.
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