Yinhe Cave Hiking Trail — Attraction in New Taipei

The area is not big, not that much to see, and only a few spots for photos, I imagine to wait for a while if you want to take a photo on the stand out balcony on holidays. With sufficient water flow, the photos will look great but I wouldn't say the view is spectacular. Nevertheless, it is still worthy for a walk. We walked about 30 minutes to the hiking stairs after a 12-15 minutes bus ride (if you schedule well you could take bus Green#12 it saves you 10 minutes walk but the bus is like an hour apart). The stairs to the waterfall took us about 15-20 minutes. Strongly recommend to bring water bottle because it could be very hot and you will be thirsty. There will be a restroom just down the hiking entrance. Also sunscreen is a must! If you love hiking, you could easily spend a day here and go further passed this spot to...

We suffered!!! If you want to just trek and climb through steps, go through the Camphor trail and tea plantations route, which is the most accessible and beginner friendly.

We made a mistake of starting from a different trail around the Maokong Gondola station to get here (SPECIFICALLY via Mt. Ejiaoge) which is just extremely hard and risky when youre not prepared, using ropes on cliffs, climbing rocks and stepping on boulders, crossing streams, going over and fallen trees, and following only ribbons from mountain groups as signs of the path, and the stream of water to get to the falls.

Signboards should be updated, and routes should be blocked off, so tourists like us who follow signs and directions would not suffer, lol. Survived tho, after hiking two different trails. Paths are...

Yinhe road isn't very eye catching, I actually missed it the first time around, it's around 14.8km, do keep an eye out. The trail up from yinhe road is a simple