Nine portions of gold
Gold found during railway work turned a hillside hamlet into a mining town. Jiufen's stairs, teahouses and fog are what the mines left behind.
New Taipei.
New Taipei encircles Taipei and runs from the Tamsui river mouth in the northwest to the hills above Yilan in the southeast. It is not one city centre but a ring of old towns: Tamsui at the river mouth, Ruifang and Jiufen in the gold country, Yingge with its kilns, and fishing ports along the northeast coast. The district names still carry the trades that built them.
New Taipei
The river mouth at Tamsui
A fort, a consulate, a missionary's schools and an old street face the sea where the Tamsui River ends.
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The Tamsui river at its mouth, seen from the bank near the town of Tamsui.Bels wu / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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Zhaoling Temple in Jiufen, its carved stone dragons at the entrance of the old mining town.Another Believer / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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The lawn and brick walls of Fort San Domingo stand above the Tamsui river mouth.lienyuan lee / CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
