PingXi, 平溪支線 - 十分車站

Out of JingTong Station, we headed toward ShiFen Station. It is an unique station to visit, shops and houses are build right besides the railway. Is really beside, is like you can jump down from the train when it pass by your house. There are more places to visit in ShiFen district, but we just running out of time. ShiFen waterfall is one of it.

side by side

十分車站, 比起菁桐, 這裡當然比較有趣. 除了十分老街那難得一見的鐵道馬路為鄰的有趣街景, 當然還有那聞名十分大瀑布. 

往十分老街走

ShiFen old street is just beside the train station, not even one minutes walking distance. We walked pass a wild boar sausage selling hawker stall, attracted by the awesome smell of sausage, stopped by and grabbed one sausage and a pork satay.

the sausage taste extremely delicious

沿著老街走, 很多商店都在兜售著孔明燈. 有不少旅客買了孔明燈, 寫上心願, 店家就會在鐵路間把孔明燈升空.

孔明燈

I was looking for the waterfall, not too sure which way to go actually. The road sign was a little bit confusing. We ended up at a bridge, a long bridge connecting to another village, I guess. 

靜安吊橋, 全長128公尺. 走在上面感覺絕對是搖搖晃晃地, 應該相當安全啦 ... 應該啦 ... 反正我們也沒走就是了.

搖晃的靜安吊橋

We turned back, to look for the correct path. We were not too sure if we were at the correct path toward the waterfall, however, we managed to find the signboard written ShiFen waterfall finally after 15minutes of uncertain walking. Continue to walk for another 10minutes, following the road sign, we finally arrived the ShiFen Scenic Area. For ShiFen waterfall, we will need to walk for another 15 - 20 minutes. We actually managed to reach the entrance of the waterfall, around 5pm, yet, stingy me decided not to 'PAY' to enter since its getting dark and become very difficult to take photo.

on the way to waterfall

道別了那十分瀑布的入口, 我們往十分車站走. 原本還擔心, 會不會趕不上最後一班往瑞芳的火車, 可是, 看起來, 平溪支線最後一班車, 應該開得蠻晚的. 回到瑞芳站的時候, 其實也只不過傍晚6點多而已.更別說, 我還在瑞芳車站累得睡了半小時, 才去買回台北的車票, 然後在火車上直接睡到台北. 可憐的另一個人, 除了要在瑞芳守著睡到不知何年何月的我, 還得在回台北的火車上, 警覺的看著究竟台北車站到了沒.

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