北埔冷泉

有个围起来的小池，水很脏，不敢玩! 但旁边溪水小瀑布很消暑。溪边可烤肉，也有公共厕所，但请大家要有公德心，记得把垃圾带走。

北埔冷泉位在新竹五指山境内，因当地有冷泉和水生萤火虫而出名，每到夏日时分，都会有不少团体晚上包车前来观赏萤火虫。而冷泉的设施相当的简陋，似乎都没有在保养及维护，水池非活水池，有相当多的沉积物，有点可惜。

中下游有规划的地方稍微乱了些往上游走去再拦砂坝附近的环境比较优. 但那边就比较危险了些吧我想. 人少相对水也干净但游客大多没甚么公德心. 垃圾挺多

北埔是个很著名的客家庄这是新加坡没有的感受走在北埔老街感受当地文化的气息是令人羨慕且享受的体验如果来到台湾没到北埔真的不知道台湾的另一种美

Not much people, no any store.A rest place on the road.Easy for parking.Free cold spring.Easy walk only 3 mins to pool.Government doing nice job on clearing.(I saw people clear one pool)There are two pool over there.

I have been there 3x times! its is perfect for swimming. Its really special, you feel it really cold at the beginning but then it gets comfortable. this is one of my favorite places in Hsinchu! the Downside is that the water level changes due to the season. Summer is the best. I have been there in fall too but the water was really shallow and too cold.

Yes, i tell you right away: it is my favourite place in all of Taiwan. Being someone like a "hot-and-cold-springs fan", in the warmer season, this is the place to go, to cool down, when the summer heat strikes.The place for you to rest and forget about all stress, especially, when you appreciate the romantic landscape, fully free access to the site and almost a feeling of a place just for you and the friends you take with you - that, if you arrive by sunset. An asset in the so overpopulated Taiwan.Enjoy the hour of dusk, when the water is at its warmest and last visitors vanish, fearing the demons of darkness. (Note: Persisiting superstition in local population can sometimes bring advantages to those visitors, who care more about the rational, than the irrational).Road directions from Beipu (the township on national highway # 3) are well marked at all crossroads on your way, which may take some 20 minutes by car. Before crossing the river (possible on foot only) - by one of the two bridges (suspension bridge is more fun), you can use a well kept free area of toilets and showers just at the opposite side of the road. There is no space for a genuine parking lot, so just park along the road, like others do. At daytime weekends, vendors sell food and refreshments; however, they vanish before dusk (probably, to avoid the night demons, ghosts and any imaginable kinds of evil spirits)... They actually disappear even faster, than their customers !Contrary to guidebooks descriptions, the water in the pools is not 12 to 15 degrees centigrade cold, but somewhere in the mid-twenties: not very warm, however warm enough, to stay for a while; some stay quite long and still don´t feel cold. If you come earlier during the day, enjoy the close by riverbed - with boulders, where locals sit and spend their leisure time, chatting, building dams, playing and picniking. The spectacular 7 (or 8 ?) meter high curtain of falling water adds to the magic of the Daping river valley, here not yet leaving the mountains and still flowing fast, as the local rivers do. There is easy access to the riverbed and the water is not very deep.In the surrounding area, where the Hakka people live, there are numerous other sights to discover. The cold spring can be a welcome relaxing activity at late afternoon, when you are done with visiting the sights and you feel need to soothe your body & mind. Let them have it right here.