Friday, 23 January 2015

Yuhliu Geopark

Greetings!

Although the city has offered us some great sights, there is a great handful of natural sights to be seen here as well. With our trusty tour guides, Byron and Cassie, we ventured 1.5 hours east of Taipei to visit the coast of the island to a place known as…

…Yehliu Geopark

Yehliu Geopark is a pretty neat place. It’s off a peninsula off the Northeast coast of Taiwan. Here are a few maps to get a sense of where it is located:






This park is famous for it’s limestone marine erosion, washed away in layers by ocean waves over thousands of years, making it look almost Mars-like. I can’t really describe it in its fullest detail, so here’s what it looks like:




This all at one point used to be under water but has risen to make these natural “mushroom” like shapes. Here are a few pics up close:



 Heroes in a halfshell

This is me spying on that hut over there



This one was my favourite:

 I think its a leopard...

...or a lion

The main attraction here is what's knows as the "Queen's Head" and unless you want to stand in line all day, it's impossible to get a clear shot of her... this is what happened...






Gotcha!

After all that fun and excitement we decided to walk all the way to the end of the peninsula and looked out onto the sea.




...oh how sweet it is!


- RS=T

3 comments:

  1. These remind me of the hoodoos in the Alberta badlands. Layers of different density stone worn away by the wind. Beautiful.

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    1. very much like the badlands, only beachier and presumably windier.

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  2. This is such a cool place! Amazing landscape. It is so beautiful it is almost fictitious. Great job with the blog Russ and Sharon. Keep keeping us posted!

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