Heren Beach Introduction
Starting from 168.5K on Suhua Highway, at the entrance of He-ren Trail marked by the He-ren Boundary Stone in Taroko National Park, walk down about 200 meters and after crossing a section of wooded path, you will reach He-ren Pebble Beach. The first thing that catches your eye is the large and small stones on the beach, which rolled down from the cliffs into the sea due to landslides. Next, there is a vast area of clean, smooth pebble beach, consisting of marble and schist gravel that was transported and deposited by the sea from the nearby Liwu River and Qnagan River (He-ren Creek). On the southern side of the pebble beach, there is a wide and flat sea erosion cave. Further south, there are massive schist cliffs with several large quartz veins running through them, which are quite rare in Taiwan. At the southernmost end of the pebble beach, you can see several long, narrow cavities, one of which has penetrated through the rock layers.
