Explore Alishan! Go beyond Taipei on your next Taiwan trip!
Go beyond Taipei on your next Taiwan trip! Explore Alishan, the scenic and mountainous national park with KKday’s EASY 1-DAY TRIP GUIDE (budget + itinerary)!????????
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Day Tour from Taichung: Alishan Forest Railway & High Mountain Tea Experience ????????
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ALISHAN 1-DAY TRIP: DEPART FROM TAIPEI
✅ 6:00am |???? Meet at Taipei Main Station
Head to the HSR counter at Taipei Main Station with your voucher and passport. Select a train schedule before 7:00am and seat, then get your ticket (NOTE: Get your ticket at least 30 minutes before your train). Present your ticket to the staff and board the train.
✅ 7:00am | Ride from ???? HSR Taipei →???? HSR Taichung (45min)
The train ride is smooth and comfortable, and a good time to eat breakfast before heading out for your tour.
✅ 8:00am |???? Meet at Taichung HSR Station, Exit 6
Once you arrive, head to the 7-11 by Exit 6 for your tour bus. It’s an incredibly scenic ride up the mountains, where you get to see the tea plantations.
✅ High Mountain Tea Experience
Enjoy a cup (or pot) of High Mountain Ooolong Tea, Taiwan’s finest tea grown right at the mountain. Here, you’ll also get to learn about Taiwan’s rich tea culture.????
⛔ PASALUBONG STOP!⛔
✅ Purchase a box of tea leaves to brew at home.
✅ Lunch of Aboriginal Taiwanese Cuisine - settle down for a traditional lunch of fresh fish, fragrant bamboo rice, and mochi served in the style of Alishan’s Tsou Tribe.
✅ Forest Recreational Area - Alishan enjoys the cool yet rainy weather, filling the forest in fog. Follow any of the different trails that’ll take you deep into the mountain and marvel where you will stumble upon thousand-year-old trees, tranquil ponds, and all sorts of other interesting sights.
✅ Alishan Forest Railway
The highlight of the trip for many! Ride this vintage, narrow-gauge local train to Shenmu Station, and see the Alishan’s Sacred Tree: A towering red cypress that’s over 3,000 years old!
✅ 6:30pm | ???? Arrive at Taichung HSR Station
The tour ends with a drop-off to the Taichung HSR station. Similar to earlier, present your voucher and passport and claim your train ticket.
✅ 7:00pm | Ride from ???? HSR Taichung →???? HSR Taipei (45min)
✅ 8:00pm |????Arrive at Taipei Main Station
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???? Budget:
???? Day Tour: 4,008php
???? Round-trip HSR Tickets: 1,904 (KKday discounted rate)
???? Pocket Money: Up to you! The tour covers lunch and your railway ticket, but bring change for snacks and pasalubong.
???? Attire:
It can get cold and rainy in Alishan, so have a jacket, umbrella, and good walking shoes.
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???????? Other similar tours worth checking out:
✅ Private Chartered Tour: Great for larger groups or families. This tour also makes stops at the old Fenqihu Town, and National Chungcheng University, the filming site of Meteor Garden.
✅ 2-Day Alishan Tour (with accommodation): Stay overnight at Alishan this spring and see cherry blossoms, sunrise views and the famous sea of clouds.
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Alishan National Scenic Area (阿里山国家风景区) | Travel Guide
Alishan is world-famous for having “five wonders; and they are Alishan Forest Railway, the forest trail, sunrise, sunset and Sea of clouds. This national park is considered the most representative of Taiwan’s tourist destinations both domestically and globally.
Alishan National Scenic Area also known as Mount Ali. It is a very popular tourist attraction in Taiwan, very famous for the production of high mountain tea and for the iconic sea of clouds.
A vantage spot over 2,600 meters above sea level, way higher than the clouds in fact, is the best place to enjoy these two natural attractions.
You need to wake up at 03:30 a.m. if you want to see the sunrise. Highly recommend you to take about 20 minute to walk to the Mt. Ogasawara Viewing Point小笠原山秘境(2488 above sea level) for better view.The scenery is so unforgettable. The atmosphere of people waiting for sunrise is great.
Alishan Forest Recreation Area is at the 89K point of the Alishan Highway and at the end of the Alishan Mountain Railway. Alishan itself doesn’t have a peak and it is actually composed of 18 mountains such as Jialun Mountain, Zhu Mountain, and Data Mountain etc.
A sea of clouds is an overcast layer of clouds, viewed from above, with a relatively uniform top which shows undulations of very different lengths resembling waves. A sea of fog is formed from stratus clouds or fog and does not show undulations.
In both cases, the phenomenon looks very similar to the open ocean. The comparison is even more complete if some mountain peaks rise above the clouds, thus resembling islands.
Greater Tashan Trail (大塔山) The Greater Tashan is the highest of the Tashan peaks, at 2663 m. Depending on the weather, you will either have a wide vista from the observation platform at the top, or will admire a sea of clouds. A good trail leads up to the peak and takes about 1½-2 hours going up from its entry point nearby the Two Sisters Pond, a bit less going down again. The trail is blissfully free of tour groups due to its medium difficulty, with some quite steep stairs on the way, but it should be doable for anyone in decent walking shape. Bring something to drink and appropriate sun protection, as even if Alishan village is cloudy, the peak can still bask in full sun due to its higher altitude.
The Alishan Sacred Tree is one of the most notable Alishan attractions. The tree is located at the Sacred Tree (Shenmu) Railway Station with an elevation over 2000 meters above sea level. The Sacred Tree is known as Shenmu in Mandarin with an age over 3,000 years. This giant tree and dozens of younger generations of giant trees are one of the top five Alishan must-see sceneries along with sunrise, sunset, forest railway, and sea of clouds.
Ciyun Temple is one of the best places in Alishan to view the cloud sea, the red clouds of evening and the sunset.
Ticket Fare: 150NT (One way),you can purchase the ticket on Chiayi Station,Fenchihu station, 711 and on Alishan Railway Station.
Entrance on Alishan: 150NT
Departure Time:
From Chiayi Station: 8: 00 am to 8 :30 am only
By Bus: Bus no. 7322 (Infront of Chiayi Station)
8:00 am to 4:00 PM only (Around 2hrs travel time)
Fare range: 250NT(one way)
Hotel Rates Range inside of Alishan: 1,500 to 4,000NT
Tips:
*There are alot of food stores and Souvenirs inside the Alishan.
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Alishan Forest Railway - Taiwan, january 2016
Mountain train the Alishan forest reservation area. The japanese started to construct the railway in 1899 and was open in 1911. This train has a diesel locomotive. The Steam loco is on use once in a while. I've seen it in Fengihu and also at the Chiyai train garage.
In this mix of videos, there is the Zhushan line that leads to the Zhushan station to watch the sunrise, and the Shenmu line (sacred tree line to get back to the Shenmu station).
I also took the mountain railway line from Fengihu to Chiayi but don't have videos.
Unforgettable experience.
阿里山小火车神木线 | Alishan Forest Railway Shenmu line train ride
Footage of the train ride on the Alishan Shenmu line.
This 5 min ride cost about 100NTD (a little less than €3) is quite expensive by Taiwanese standard. But it's definitely worth it.
It's recommended by the tourist centre to take the train from Alishan train station to Zhaoping,
walk downhill to Shenmu station and then take the train back to Alishan station. So this is the second part of the trip.
【Alishan Forest Railway】28t SHAY SL-31, 2019
Location:
- Alishan locomotive garage
- Alishan station
- Mianyue Line 眠月線(2K300~500)
- Chushan Line 祝山線(0K300~500)
- Main Line (69K~68K)
The video recorded in 2019.
Taiwan - Alishan Forest Railway Part 1
The Alishan Forest Railway is now a touristic network in the Alishan Recreation Area in Taiwan. However originally it was built by the Japanese colonialist power in order to exploit the millennia old cypresses of Alishan that were considered precious wood for luxury house and furniture constructions.
This is the first of a series of videos from the Alishan Forest Railway. We enjoy the trains passing some scenic spots of the network and take a ride on the Zhushan line - a part of the network operating only in the earliest morning to a sunrise viewing platform.
More Information on the Alishan Forest Railway:
Taiwan - Alishan Express
From Fen Chi Hu (奮起湖) to Chiayi ( 嘉義市)
July 2016 -
TRAVEL BLOG|TAIWAN #3| LÀM GÌ Ở ALISHAN VÀ FENCHIHU
Taiwan Alishan by bus
mountains in Alishan
Alishan Forest Railway Tour / 阿里山森林鐵路旅游/ 아리산 삼림 철도
0:00 - Chiayi Station / 嘉義車站
0:34 - Chiayi (嘉義市) to Fenchihu/Fenqihu (奮起湖)
2:09 - Fenchihu/Fenqihu / 奮起湖
5:07 - Fenchihu/Fenqihu (奮起湖) to Chiayi (嘉義市)
6:22 - Alishan (阿里山) to Chaoping (沼平車站)
8:31 - Shenmu or Sacred Tree Station / 神木車站
9:59 - Shenmu (神木站) to Alishan (阿里山)
Alishan National Scenic Area (Sunset) (阿里山國家風景區 (日落))
Alishan National Scenic Area (Sunset)
(阿里山國家風景區 (日落))
Alishan is world-famous for having “five wonders; and they are Alishan Forest Railway, the forest trail, sunrise, sunset and Sea of clouds. This national park is considered the most representative of Taiwan’s tourist destinations both domestically and globally.
The Alishan Sacred Tree is one of the most notable Alishan attractions. The tree is located at the Sacred Tree (Shenmu) Railway Station with an elevation over 2000 meters above sea level. The Sacred Tree is known as Shenmu in Mandarin with an age over 3,000 years. This giant tree and dozens of younger generations of giant trees are one of the top five Alishan must-see sceneries along with sunrise, sunset, forest railway, and sea of clouds.
The sacred tree is a red cypress which has been guarded by the Tsou for generations, and later widely known during the Japanese colonial period in 1945. The tree is the tallest and the most imposing one in Taiwan with a height of 53 meters, a trunk of 4.66 meters in diameter, and a circumference of 23 meters. The sacred tree was vigor and able to withstand typhoons and earthquakes over the years. However, it was struck by lightning and burned on the inside in 1956. The Forestry Bureau decided to cut and lay the giant tree in 1998 due to its slant in 1997. Nowadays, visitors may see a pavilion built alongside of the sacred tree.
Many Alishan hiking trails will bring you to the Alishan Sacred Tree. Enjoy a healthy forestry journey hiking the sacred tree plank, more than 36 noted giant trees can be seen. Most of them are over 1000 or 2000 years old. Indulge an interesting Alishan travel exploring the age of each giant tree!
Even if breathtaking views are common in Alishan region; these five wonders are still considered the main reason for many travelers to visit Alishan each year.
Ciyun Temple is one of the best places in Alishan to view the cloud sea, the red clouds of evening and the sunset.
From here, Alishan settlement and Tashan can also be seen. The earliest trail from the temple to the sacred tree starts at the temple. Strolling along it at dusk, the sunset glow and the golden cloud sea create a beautiful sight.
The sunset is as stunning as the sunrise and is best viewed on a deck near the Cihyun Temple.
Alishan National Scenic Area (Forest Recreation Area)
(阿里山國家風景區 (森林休闲区))
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Taiwan vlog 2013 - Chiayi + Ali Mountain
Some photos from the beautiful island Taiwan, when I traveled there with the help of a family friend in 2013.
浊水溪公社
晚安台湾
日头要落西 劳工朋友你咁会累吗
天色渐渐暗 车灯打开照在高速公路
为著咱前途 为著家庭付出一切
辛苦啥关系 来去夜市斗阵干一杯
了解社会是非 漂丿的人总是会卡吃亏
有时搧到风 有时遇着歹天落大雨 有甜有苦
热情的岛屿 丰盛的路边摊
庙口在扮戏 还有惜别的海岸
月暗暝码头边 海鸟乱阮的心
面对将来 成功返来
山顶到海边 赚食人把委屈讲出嘴
心情放轻松 安分守己生活靠自己
田庄到都市 痴情人饮著苦楚的咖啡
无论三冬五冬 山盟海誓等待她一人
了解社会是非 漂丿的人总是卡吃亏
有时搧到风 有时遇着歹天落大雨 有甜有苦
热情的岛屿 丰盛的路边摊
庙口在扮戏 还有惜别的海岸
月暗暝码头边 海鸟乱阮的心
面对将来 成功返来
大甲妈祖庙 关子岭洗温泉
内门宋江阵走找古早的感动
夜深人静时阵 恋恋不舍来分开
请君保重 期待再相逢
热情的岛屿 丰盛的路边摊
庙口在扮戏还有惜别的海岸
月暗暝码头边 海鸟乱阮的心
面对将来 成功返来
面对将来 自由自在
面对将来 Good night Taiwan!
蓝宝石(2008)
作曲：柯仁坚
作词：柯仁坚
Alishan Forest Railway
On the way to Sacred Tree Station
Taiwan VLOG 03 Alishan National Forest (Schmalspurbahn, Alte Bäume, Baden im Wasserfall, Betelnuss)
Schön das Ihr wieder mit dabei seid!
Wir fahren diesmal weiter in die Berge zum Alishan National Forest und fahren mit der einzigartigen Schmalspurbahn, sehen riesige, alte Bäume und genießen das mystische Ambiente am Sister Pond. Für die Nacht haben wir uns in Fulan bei einem Homestay einquartiert. Auf dem Weg dorthin haben wir noch einen Wasserfall entdeckt in dem ich auch gleich baden war. Ach ja und Betelnuss gabs auch noch ;-)
Über ein Abo würde ich mich natürlich sehr freuen.
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Alishan Forest Railway, the train rear view(Chushan line)
Alishan Forest Railway
the train rear view(Chushan line)
阿里山森林鐵路, 祝山線車尾景
阿里山小火车沼平线 | Alishan Forest Railway Zhaoping line train ride
Footage of the bumpy ride on the Alishan Zhaoping line.
This 5 min ride cost about 100NTD (a little less than €3) is quite expensive by Taiwanese standard. But it's definitely worth it.
It's recommended by the tourist centre to take the train from Alishan train station to Zhaoping,
walk downhill to Shenmu station and then take the train back to Alishan station. So this is the first part of the trip.
Ali Mountain Train Shenmu Line in Taiwan
Shenmu Line is one of the branches of Ali mountain railway in Chiayi, Taiwan. Shenmu in Chinese means sacred trees; it was named for there are plenty of Taiwan cypresses in the mountain.
In 2009, a devastating typhoon hit Taiwan and caused huge damage to Ali mountain railway; thus, only Shenmu and Zhushan Line in the mountain are still available right now.
The video shows a train is leaving Shenmu station and is bound for Ali mountain station.
Alishan Forest Railway - Chiayi to Fenchihu (Video 4 of 5)
Alishan - Sacred Tree Station (2138m)