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Linkou - Xialiao (下寮) Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/4/2017
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Xialiao located near Linkou Coal Power Plant and (former) Linkou Train Station. The train station used to have regular train (until 2012) to supply the power plant with coal from Taoyuan. Currently it is abandoned, but it's located inside the power plant. The beach is typical countryside beach, not many tourists, a few large wind turbines on the background and oftimes you could see planes landing/ascending from/to Taoyuan airport.

Linkou District (Chinese: 林口區) is a district in the western part of New Taipei in northern Taiwan. It is one of early example of planned community in Taiwan. During the World War II, it was used by the Japanese Armed Forces as a supply air base to support Taipei Air Base. After that, from 1955 to 1977, the US military used it a radio base stationing 6987th Security Group of US Air Force to detect initial threat from the People's Republic of China.

From the power plant, walk until you see a beach, follow path, until you see a large hole (sewer).

Climb the sewer carefully, you could find the cached attached to one wave breaker on top of the sewer. (see picture)

PS: please climb carefully, preferably visit in pair/group and on day-time.

PPS: Please bring your own pen.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpurq mvcybp-rq, qhpg-gncrq ba bar bs gur pbapergr jnir oernxre.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)