PingXi Sky Lantern Experience and Old Street Walk

Pingxi and Shifen are just two of several towns alongside Highway 106, a narrow back road that runs between southern Taipei and southern Keelung. Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival is one of the three most popular and well-known celebration events during the Lantern Festival. Since 1999, the Taipei County Government has devoted substantial resources to promote this festival, in a bid to promote it to become an international and multi-ethnic culture exchange activity. Through this festival, presenting the Sky Lantern tradition and the natural beauty of Pingxi to the public and prayers to the heavenly God and wishing for prosperity and peace for the nation and its citizens.

Then you will proceed to Shifen Old street where you will find a nostalgic ambience of Taipei's past that made the area a popular site for filming ads. The romantic beauty of the landscape has made this area a popular visitor attraction.

The last stop will be at Shifen Waterfall, that lies between Dahua Station and Shifen Station on the Pingxi Railway Line in Pingxi District. During summer, this falls produces rainbows and paints the blue clouds, that is why it is tagged as the "Rainbow Pond". The locals are considering it as Taiwan's Niagara Falls for it is similar to the one located at North America.