Taipei - Part V - YanMingShan National Park

YanMingShan National Park . . . one of the eight national parks in Taiwan . . . it is located in between Taipei City and Taipei County . . . The Park is famous for its cherry blossoms, hot springs, sulfur deposits, fumaroles, venomous snakes and hiking trails, including Taiwan's tallest and one over the extinct volcano . . . Seven Star Mountain (QiXingShan) . . .

We took a bus directly from Xi Men Ding . . . if I'm not wrong . . . the bus number was 265 . . . I think so . . . hahaha . . . I think the bus fare was like NTD60.00 - 80.00 per person only . . . It took almost an hour to reach there depending on the traffic as well . . .

Another tip . . . wake up early and go there as early as possible otherwise you won't have enough time to tour around the park . . . we were quite late that day due to my work load again . . . we reach there about 3:30pm and we only manage to go 2 of the visitor centers out of the 6 centers they have . . .

This is the main bus stop at YangMingShan National Park . . .

A view from the bus stop . . .

The park's bus route . . .

Go to this shop . . . ask for some information and advise on where to go . . . the lady who help us was really nice . . . she told us that we will only managed to go to 2 centers . . . if not we will not be able to take the park's last bus to come back to this main stop which is at 6:00pm . . .

As usual . . . it was raining again . . . luckily it was only drizzling . . . but the weather was just perfect . . . the temperature up there is around 20° c - 23° c . . . and smells of the the fresh air!!!perfect!!!

The park's tour bus taking a shower . . . one side at a time!!!hahaha . . .

got a rain coat from the shop for RM3.00 . . . not because it is raining . . . it is because of the weather as the strong winds and mist will get you quite wet . . .

Took these shots from inside the bus while we were heading to the 1st visitor center . . . oh yeah! . . . each stop will cost you NTD30.00 . . .

This is the XiaoYouKang Visitor Center stop . . . it took us around 20mins to reach here from the main bus stop . . .

This is the center . . . go in and get more information . . . here they also have free movies appreciation at certain timing . . . souvenirs . . . anyway you should ask them where to go as you'll need to do some hiking! . . .

Nice view isn't it . . . wondering why there are so much smokes coming out from there right . . .

Now this is the sulfur fumaroles . . .

As you walk closer to it . . . the smells of the sulfur is really heavy . . . I even choked myself . . . lol!!!

These are the geothermal hot springs . . . it is really boiling . . . don't put your hand in there!!! . . .

Hiking Trails . . .

The views here are just BEAUTIFUL!!!!

As you can see . . . the winds are really strong . . .

Do I need to say more . . .

This is another visitor center . . . LengShuiKeng visitor center . . . here is a public hot spring tub . . . you'll need to bring your own towels . . . you can only deep yourself into the hot spring tub for a maximum of 10-15 minutes only . . . otherwise you'll get really drowsy and cooked!!! . . . hahaha!!! . . . There's one for the gentlemen and one for the ladies . . . no locker though . . . just put your belongings in a open square box they provided . . . one more thing . . . you have to be naked to go into the hot spring tub . . . hehehe!!!and the tub is really quite small . . . we did went in to have a look . . . but got scared and ran straight out . . . coz we saw snakes and dragons in there!!! . . . hahaha . . . don't think something else ya . . . it is those tattoos on those local Taiwanese . . . look really fierce . . .

Well . . . another great outing for a day . . .

For more information of the YangMingShan National Park . . . please follow the below link

http://www.ymsnp.gov.tw/html/eng/index.asp