Sheipa Above the Skyline— Fog and cloud sea tour

1. Sheipa Above the Skyline— Fog and cloud sea tour

2. 1,923 meters above sea level, Sheipa (Hsuehba) Farm is near the Hsuehba National Park, which features forests of giant trees such as red cypress and cryptomeria. Its Yemakanshan Forest Trail offers the best access to these precious trees. There is also a 846-meter-long Fog and Cloud Trail along which tourists can see not only trees of temperate and cool-temperate zones but also rare birds and insects.

3. Fauna Yemakanshan trail locates in Shei Pa Leisure Farm. The trail is composed by secondary forest and part of pristine mixed broadleaf forest. The animal species here is various and abundant. Animal species account 深山竹雞 Formosan Hill Partridge

4. In those mammals, the Taiwan’s smallest squirrel -- Formosan stripped squirrel (as well as pumpkin squirrel in Taiwainese) is the most special. During the morning, you can see them jumping between the trees which is very cute and attractive. Formosan stripped squirrel

5. the forest floor is also the habitat for Formosan glass lizard which is a very rare species and difficult to discover. Formosan glass lizard

6. Flora Sheipa locates in the mountain at elevations of 2000 meters. The geography here is various. Beside the small area for construction, Sheipa is mainly composed by the conifer plantation and mid to high-altitude pristine forest. Most Gymnosperm species are artificial planted, and they are also dominant in Sheipa. Plant species account

7. Rhododendron ellipticum Acer kawakamii Prunus campanulata Gordonia axillaris

8. Callicarpa formosana Schizophragma integrifolium Cryptomeria japonica Deutzia taiwanensis

9. Taiwan Stranvaesia Taiwan Red Pine Formosan False Cypress Formosan Alder

10. Litsea cubeba Taiwan Actinidia Japanese Privet Aralia decaisneana

11. Giant Knotweed Shady Groundsel common foxglove Debregeasia edulis