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Mt. Qixing Main Peak - East Peak Trail Menghuan Pond Trail Mt. Shamao Trail
  • Lengshuikeng trailhead (South) → Menghuan Pond → Menghuan Pond Parking Lot → Lengshuikeng trailhead (North) → Lengshuikeng visitor center
  • Total distance 2.5 kilometers, circular trail with average slope of 12 degrees, entire journey takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes.。

Menghuan Pond Trail Drop map

Public transportation
  1. Lengshuikeng Stop, Qingtiangang Stop: S 15 main line (MRT Jiantan Station to Qingtiangang Stop), 108 (shuttle bus)
  2. Yangmingshan Bus Station: R5 (MRT Jiangtan Station to Yangmingshan), 108 (shuttle bus), 260 main line (Dongyuan, Taipei Main Station to Yangmingshan)
  3. Yangmingshan Stop: R5 (MRT Jiangtan Station to Yangmingshan), 230 (MRT Beitou Station to Yangmingshan), 260 main line (Dongyuan, Taipei Main Station to Yangmingshan), S 8 (MRT Shipai Station to Zhuzihu), S 9 (MRT Fuxing Station to Zhuzihu), 1717 Royal Bus (Taipei to Jinshan)

Get on 108 park bus at the Yangmingshan main bus terminal

By car
  1. Shilin→ Fulin Road→Yangde Boulevard → Shanzaihou → Jingshan Road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 1 (parking fees apply), No. 2 or Menghuan Parking Lot
  2. Shilin→ Fulin Road→Yangde Boulevard → Yangming Road → Xinyuan Street access road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 1 (parking fees apply), No. 2 or Menghuan Parking Lot
  3. Tamsui, Sanzhi → 101 County Highway → 101A County Highway (Bailaka Highway) → Yangjin Highway → Zhonghu Road of Armaments → Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 1 (parking fees apply), No. 2 or Menghuan Parking Lot
  4. Jinshan → Yangjin Highway → Zhonghu → Zhonghu Road of Armaments → Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 1 (parking fees apply), No. 2 or Menghuan Parking Lot
  5. Beitou → Xinbeitou → Quanyuan Road → Dingbi Bridge, Shamao Road → Yangming Road → Chung-San Hall → Xinyuan Street access road → Jingshan Road, Lane 101 → Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 1 (parking fees apply), No. 2 or Menghuan Parking Lot
Parking
  1. Menghuan Pond Parking Lot (bottom of Menghuan Pond's northeast slope)
  2. Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 1 (in front of Lengshuikeng visitor center / parking fees apply)
  3. Lengshuikeng Parking Lot No. 2 (opposite Lengshuikeng hot spring public baths)
Animals
  • Black-browed barbet
    Black-browed barbet

    Its Chinese name, the 'five-colored bird', results from the bird's five different colors: red, yellow, black, blue, and green. It is also sometimes called 'flowery monk' because its call resembles the sound of wooden fish that monks hit with mallets. The black-browed barbet builds nests on dead trees in broad-leaf forests, and its main staple is berries.

  • Chestnut tiger
    Chestnut tiger

    Among the numerous butterfly species, the chestnut tiger is the species that appears earliest during the butterfly-watching season. During the May 'plum rain' season, many chestnut tigers form quite a spectacle as they feed on orchid nectar along the trail from Erziping parking lot to Mt. Datun main peak.

  • Black bulbul
    Black bulbul

    This species inhabits low-altitude forests and plains. It exhibits a wide array of calls, one of which sounds like a cat's "meow". When in flight, the bird produces a loud, drawn-out chirping call. They are often found in small groups within forests. Every year from winter to spring, when it is not mating season, they gather in larger groups and can be quite noisy.

  • Lesser scimitar babbler
    Lesser scimitar babbler

    The bird's wide black eye-patch makes it seem like a caped crusader. Its long and curved beak is what gave it the name of 'scimitar', after the curved sabre. This bird spends most of its time in the thickets with only its call to give away its presence.

  • Formosan red-bellied tree squirrel
    Formosan red-bellied tree squirrel

    The most commonly seen wild animal in the forest, the squirrel has a brown body and a distinctive red-brown stomach. They can be seen climbing up tree trunks or prancing among the branches with their bushy gray tails in regions at sea level as well as in the central mountain range up to an altitude of 2,000 meters.

Plants
  • Common rush
    Common rush

    The common rush is found in mainland China, Korea, Japan and Americas. In Taiwan, common rush is found in wet areas in the mountains, plains, and next to sources of water. It is a perennial herbaceous aquatic plant with a short, creeping rhizome dense with fibrous roots. The stalks grow in upright clusters and are cylindrical and solid. The sheath at base of the stem is brown, thin, and cylindrical.

  • Green maple
    Green maple

    Latin name: Eupatorium shimadai Kitam It is an herb with single leaves growing in parallel pairs. The pinnate leaves are lance-shaped with long narrow tips. The leaves are between 2 and 7 centimeters long with serrated edges and glandular dots on their underside. Unlike other plants in the Asteraceae family, which are made up of clusters of tiny flowers, the Eupatorium shimadai’s blossom is formed from 5 small tubular flowers. The inflorescence is reddish with clustered and tight flowers. It flowers from May to July. The entire plant is fragrant.

  • Chinese knotweed
    Chinese knotweed

    Latin name: Polygonum chinense L. Chinese knotweed is a member of the family Polygonaceae. It is a perennial semi-climbing herb. Heights can reach up to 2 meters. It has multi-branching stems with grooves. It creeps over ground and rarely climbs up tree crowns. The Chinese knotweed, along with the awn, can be named as representative vascular plants for the outlaying sulfuric region.

  • Volcanic liverwort
    Volcanic liverwort

    Latin name: Jungermannia vulcanicola Strph. Volcanic liverwort is a sulfur-tolerant plant and is widely distributed on the bare rock surrounding volcanic vents. Due to its high tolerance for acidic and salt-filled environments and is highly adapted to the sulfuric fumarole environment, the plant is an indicator plant for the fumarole area of Datun Volcano Group.