Meet your tour guide and driver at the hotel lobby, and then head off to Shiding District in New Taipei City. Just sit back and relax, enjoy the 90-min drive to the idyllic mountain town. Your tour starts with a visit to the magnificent Thousand Island Lake, which shares the same name with the famous scenic spot in Hangzhou City, China. The lake is located in the south of Shiding, it was once an inhabited village before it was flooded to create the catchment area of Feitsui Reservoir. As the water rose, it submerged part of the mountains and resulted in a lake with countless islets scattered here and there. The stunning landscape resembles the Thousand Island Lake in China, hence the name.

Bagua Tea Garden

The superior geographical location and the pleasant climate that Shiding is endowed with nourish the tea plantations around Feitsui Reservoir, and cultivate the two of top 10 Taiwanese teas, Wenshen Paochong Tea and Oriental Beauty Oolong Tea (Dong Fang Mei Ren). The next stop, Bagua Tea Plantation, is at a short distance from Thousand Island Lake. The tea plantation was so named because the neatly planted rows of tea bushes look just like the symbols of Eight Trigrams.