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The Lukui (Kuku) Ping Ancient Trail is a small mountain-crossing route that once linked a tiny north-coast village with Taipei. From Wanli, turn into Kanjiao Village via Zhongfu Li; at the fork, climb toward Daping Elementary, then, following the sign, turn right past the school. At the bus stop, turn left to reach the trailhead, ringed by sweet-potato fields. Follow the narrow path beside the ditch; a few old houses line the way. Soon you reach an Earth-God shrine—already inside Yangmingshan National Park. Keep along the small channel: gurgling water, bright scenery, and stands of cypress make perfect forest-bathing. Ahead, a junction: the upper track, toward Lukui (Kuku) Pingkou, climbs to the ridge—steep, nearly 70°, climbable with branches and ropes, but not for the unfit. The lower branch, toward Upper Lukui, crosses terraces once stacked-stone paddies; now fallow and green, the trail is gentle. Lukui Ping summit is cupped by peaks, shrubs and flowers all round, a golf-fairway-like meadow in the middle, veiled in drifting mist. Ladder-like grassland gives a northern-country feel; cattle graze here, and the path is the quick way from Kanjiao to Dalingding and Taipei. Along the trail, forest “cow walls” tens of metres long climb to Huangzui main ridge and, leftward, to Qingtiangang. The route lies within an ecological reserve—apply to the park headquarters before entering.