New Taipei Pinglin Tea Country Travel, leisurely tasting the fragrance of tea in the lake and mountains

The mountains around the Pinglin are surrounded by mountains and the streams wind and flow. This is home to Taiwan’s top-grade tea packages, tea garden layers, and the air is filled with a light and elegant tea fragrance. Stroll along Pinglin Old Street, fine handmade tea spots, and enjoy the leisurely time of blending mountains and rivers. Whether it is tea, hiking, or being calm and away from the dust, the plains are all paradises that wash away the body and mind.

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Pinglin is located in the Jade Water Tank Water Source Protection Area. Due to restrictions on development, it leaves behind limited natural beauty that is rare in Taiwan. Several ecological trails such as the Golden Gualiao Fish Fern Trail and the Ancient Trail of the Ancient Trail are so popular that people can watch. In addition, Pinglin is the source of low-carbon tourism in Taiwan. The complete connection of bicycle trails makes Pinglin not only a rare environmental ecological education field in North and Taiwan, but also the best place for a one-day small trip in New Taipei.

Tea-taking fun/Tea-taking tea-making tea-making. When you taste your own tea soup, you must experience the tea mountain culture and life when traveling to Pinglin. Many tea farms in Pinglin have launched tea leaves related courses in their own tea gardens and tea making factories. Travelers can arrange a day to experience the hardship and fun of tea picking and making, and taste the self-made tea soup, so that they can feel the depth and sweetness of tea. The Wenshan Baocao Tea Area in Pinglin will be nearly 1,000 kilometers, and 80% of the whole country is tea farming. The tea leaves are green and firm, and the tea soup is golden and yellow, with a light and elegant aroma that makes the nose feel gentle and sweet, and it produces saliva in the mouth.

Trail fun/Jingualiao Fish Fern Trail Recommended by Lonely Planet

Enter Pinglin, follow the Jingualiao River Bike Trail, which is divided into human-cars, and pass the Jingualiao Railway, the Tea Garden Village Scenery, and the Jingualiao Fish Fern Trail. This is the wild stream's secret environment, the quiet atmosphere, the rich fern ecology on the rock walls and the large number of fish in the stream. It was recommended by the 2017 "Lonely Planet" as a suburban mountain trail worth visiting by travelers.

Pinglin City also has several mountaineering trails worth visiting, such as the Audio Terrace, the Yilijian Mountain Climbing Trail, the Jiuxionggen Mountain Climbing Trail, the Dalin Oil Fir Trail, the Dahuwei Mountain Climbing Trail, the Shuifengfengkeng Mountaineering Trail, the Bingyanlun Mountaineering Trail, the Hutong Ancient Trail, etc. Among them, the total length of the Kaiyanlun Mountaineering Trail is about 1.1 kilometers. If you climb the top of the mountain, and the starting point of the Shuai Tea Garden Trail is about 3 kilometers, it is an O-shaped route worth resting and hiking.

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Food Fun/Manping Pinglin Old Street Specialty Food

Pinglin Old Street is about 200 meters. In addition to the thick tea culture, the ancient stone walls and sakura-style buildings are the two major features. Pinglin’s specialty shops incorporate local specialty “Pinglin Bun Tea” into the cuisine, including tea leaves, tea egg rolls, tea cakes, tea glutinous rice balls, tea leaves red bean mochi, tea beef sugar, tea oil noodles, etc., which are worthy of careful taste.

The "ping feeling" in Pinglin City, the old red brick house is paired with ancient flower tiles. It is a tea hall that combines tea soap and tea leaves and other local small agricultural products. The store is like a mini cultural market, and also provides Chinese dining and dessert afternoon tea. Most of the dishes are made of tea elements.

The "Shifang Teahouse" has ancient style doors and wooden furniture. The special dishes include crispy fried tea leaves, tea oil noodles, tea aromatic pork, tea oil chicken, fragrant flower flakes, which are amazing and fragrant.

Jingualia "Aqing's Shop" allows travelers to enjoy home-cooked dishes at the crock table outside the iron leather house. The local chicken and wild vegetables are self-cultivated and freshly prepared. The store's signature white chicken must be made in advance to eat.

After eating perfect food, you can visit Pinglin Tea Industry Cultural Center, Centennial Sanheyuan Stone House, Pinglin Stone Carving Park. There are also water-water hanging bridges, fish trails, and water-water parks nearby, which are suitable for the whole family to travel together.

Transportation information

● Take a low-carbon bus to Pinglin: take Xindian passenger transport 12 and 932 at the MRT Xindian Station; take a Metropolitan passenger transport 9028

● YouBike rental points: Tea Museum, Shuiliu Foot three-dimensional parking lot, Pinglin Tourist Center

● New bus free bus has 6 lines: Nanshan Temple, Jingualiao, Dalin, Shangshishishi Cao, Xiashishi Cao, Shuide Line

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