Yehliu Geopark is a stretch of cost line located north east of Taipei Taiwan. From Taipei It is about 1 hour and 24 minutes away by direct buss and 1 hour 31 minutes away by direct train and by car it is 44 minutes.
When I went there in 2017 I got the train from Taipei Main Station to Keelung City and changed to the buss from Keelung City to Yehliu Geopark. Feel free to have a look at this map in the link bellow to give you an idea of the location.
1. Google Map
People enjoying the rock formations at Yehliu Geopark
Some of these stones sit upright like honeycombs or like some kind of sculptures, their size is comparable to an average human hight if not bigger.
A mysterious stone shaped like a shoe
If the standing stones are not strange enough then the stone shaped like a shoe tops the list. I have never seen anything like this before. I could not believe that this stone had been eroded and shaped by the natural elements to the point at which it appearance is like some kind of shoe. It looked very surreal and out of place in its environment.
There is a Taiwanese legend that mentions that a fairy came to the earth to fight a turtle elf and then on her return back to were she came the fairy left her shoe.
A short video of the mysterious stone shoe and the sounding area
A fossil found within Yehliu Geopark
At Yehliu Geopark there are also many fossils that have been exposed. I had never seen fossils in their natural environment before as I am used to seeing them in museums.
An example of a standing stone
Some stones look like a head of a person, there is one famous standing stone at the site called the Queens Head.
Some parts of the park look almost like a desert
Another unusual stone formation, it looks almost like some kind of shell
Small pools of water
An Island spotted from Yehliu Geopark, could be Kelung Island
For further information about Yehliu Geopark please see the links below:
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