Tamsui Customs Wharf

A summer stroll along the river bank at Danshui and down past the old Tamsui Customs Wharf just outside Taipei. The Wharf may not look like much now, and frankly it isn’t, but it was once a naval base for the Qing Dynasty. In 1861 the authorities established a Customs House and converted the wharf into a pier. At one time it must have been quite busy as Tamsui was the largest commercial port in Taiwan. The pier is formed from stones from the Guanyin Mountain across the river from Tamsui at Bali and was a pretty advanced piece of civil engineering for the time.