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Updated Thursday, November 29, 2007 0:00 am TWN, By Richard Saunders, Special to The China Post

Exploring Taoyuan’s best-kept secret in Yieheng

In about 15 minutes, there’s a signposted junction. Follow the level path straight ahead, and shortly the white plume of Youling (“ghost”) Waterfall (幽靈瀑布) can be seen through the trees. A side trail drops down to the stream above the head of the waterfall, where the stream thunders through a curious rocky channel about a hundred meters long before plummeting over the brink. This natural waterslide would be a great spot for messing about in the water on a hot day and indeed is quite popular with locals on summer weekends.

The main path, hewn into the side of the gorge, keeps well above the stream, descending to rejoin it after a couple of hundred meters at the second waterfall, known as the Water Curtain Cave (水濂洞). Apparently there really is a small cave behind this impressively wide sheet of falling water, although you’ll need to wade upstream to get there, as there’s no path to the foot of the falls.

Back at the junction below the Ghost Falls, a dirt trail drops down to the rock-strewn bed of the Dahan River, where fragments of trail follow the Taiyao Stream up towards the base of the waterfall. The trails peters out well below the falls, which remain unseen round a corner of the gorge, but when the stream is low it’s possible to paddle up the smooth, rocky channel as it winds through a strange “S”-shaped cleft to the foot of the impressive, 30-meter-high waterfall.

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	Ghost Waterfall, the lower waterfall on Taiyao Stream, probably got its name from the deep, dark cleft into which it falls. (Richard Saunders, Special to The China Post) More Photos (2)


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