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Just twenty minutes’ walk along this Taipei trail, and you can feast your eyes on mountain scenery, wild streams, forests, and rice paddy–like landscapes, all within a drop of only about thirty meters in altitude, making it quite accessible for children and old people.

Located in Yangmingshan’s Zhuzihu, the Shuicheliao Trail is famous for its calla lilies, which bloom from March to April. Apart from the well-known white calla, red, green, pink, and purple colored varieties abound. Each year, when the calla lily season comes to an end, vibrant hydrangeas take the spotlight from around May to early June.

In its early days during the Qing Dynasty, Zhuzihu was planted with rice, and today’s Shuicheliao Trail was a path that locals used to transport rice. After irrigation canals were dug, a farming village was established. During the Japanese colonial period, the government decided to use this area to cultivate a new type of rice preferred by the Japanese, which was later named “Penglai rice”. Subsequently, farmers also tried growing alpine vegetables, but as transportation in Taiwan improved, other mountain areas began to replace Zhuzihu. Latterly, it has become renowned for its calla lily plantations, whose vibrant colors leave a vivid impression on the residents of Taipei.