A 16-person tour group from China were the lucky winners yesterday of a NT$88,888 cash prize offered by the Yehliu Geopark to its 1 millionth visitor for the year.
The winning admission ticket, bearing the number D11315, was among those issued to a tour guide for a group of tourists from Zhejiang Province.
As the tickets had not yet been distributed among the members of the group when park officials announced the winning number, the group decided to split the cash prize and the more than 30 other gifts.
Qu Haixia (屈海霞), the tour group leader from Zhejiang-based Zhongshan Travel Agency, said she has visited Taiwan as a tour leader 12 times, and went to the park each time.
Qu said she had not been aware of the 1-million-visitor activity and thought her group was very lucky to win the prize.
This is the first time that the number of annual visitors to the park has reached the 1 million mark. A total of 830,000 people visited the park last year.
The park, which was formed as geological forces pushed Datun Mountain (大屯山) up from the sea, is located near Wanli Township (萬里), Taipei County, and juts out about 1.7km into the ocean.
It contains a number of rock formations that have been given imaginative names based on their shapes. The best known is the “Queen’s Head,” while others incude “The Fairy Shoe,” “The Bee Hive” and “The Sea Candles.”
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