All About Life: Taiwan Trip Part I “ Shi Fen Waterfall”

Hi All, today I’m going share will all of you my trip to Taiwan on March 2016, it’s a little bit late to share with you guys due to I was lack disciplining in writing, and now onward I was encourage myself to keep write even tough I have no mood to do it. That’s the best way to practice my English and also keep maintain my hobby. Okay , back to the topic, I was visited Taiwan in order to attended the wedding ceremony of my cousin. So as the phrase said “one stone kill two birds”, it’s meant I take the chance visiting them also with additional purpose to refreshing myself with visiting tourism objects on there. I had been in there for two weeks, start from 6^th March till 21^th March 2016. On that time the weather was rather cold with some rainy days. It was the change of season between Winter to Summer. As I lived in Indonesia so I was a litte not got usual with the condition at there.

I was visited Shi Fen Waterfall on the next day after I arrived there, due I have family on there, so I don’t have to worry how to reach there by common transportation, but it’s also kinda of pity I couldn’t experienced the feeling of taking their transportation such as rail way, MRT, Bus, and so on. But never mind, I hope someday I got the chance to visit and explore Taiwan again on my own.

Shi Fen Waterfall is located at Pingxi District, New Taipei City ( Or spell in Chinese Xin Bei ). The falls total height is 20 meters and 40 meters in width. It forma a horseshoe and has been nicknamed the little niagara even tough it’s much smaller J. I was heading from tao yuan where I lived to there, it’s take time approximately 1 hours. If you want to reach there by train as I do some research in google, you could take the train to ruifang from Taipei main station and then transfer to the pingxi line and get off at shifen. Once you arrive there you have to walk some times to reach Shi Fen waterfall, it’s take time about 30 minutes, depended on the speed you walked also.

The entrance fee to visit Shi Fen Waterfall is free with opening hours 09:00 AM – 16:30 PM, I think the best time to visit there is in the morning where the weather not too hot. But I don’t know weather in summer, spring and autumn how the condition of weather at there. The time when I visited there, it was a perfect time, not too cool or too hot. There’s another place at there you could visit is shi fen old street, which was about 20 minutes of walk from shi fen water fall area. Shifen old street is one of the most popular stop along the pingxi line train. The railway was originally built to transport coals but as the coal business dwindled over the years, this place has gradually evolved into a popular tourist spots – for one to discover the coal-mining history of Taiwan and to experience the lighting of sky lanterns.

At that time I only visited Shi Fen Waterfall it’s really pity due to I was went there with my uncle then they are exhausted of walking to there. So I don’t even take any photos at shi fen old street or buy lantern and make a wish on there. Shi Fen Old Street is the place where the Taiwan Lantern Festival held. Taiwan Lantern Festival is an annual event hosted by Tourism bureau of the Ministry of Transportation Communication in Taiwan to celebrate Lantern Festival. The festival held on fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar calendar and the end of the Chinese New Year. The purpose of the festival is to spread the traditional folklore. It is also known as Yuan Xiao Festival.

That’s all my documentation on my Taiwan trip in Shi Fen Waterfall with all I know about there. Here some photos of Shi Fen Waterfall Park.