Taiwan's East Coast Treasure | Taroko National Park Road Trip
The east coast of Taiwan (台灣) is full of beautiful nature, including its most famous treasure Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園). You can visit here as a day trip from Taipei (台北) but it's worth giving yourself more time to enjoy the coastline, mountains, and natural beauty. We're taking a road trip from Hualien City (花蓮市) to Taroko Gorge (塔羅科峽谷), a narrow gorge made of marble.
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⛴{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- KEELUNG 1-Day Trip/基隆 一日遊
On this short trip, we visited a few places in Keelung and had lunch at a dubious restaurant. :)
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Badouzi 八斗子
Baimiwong Fort 白米甕炮臺
Heping Island Park 和平島公園
Keelung 基隆
Keelung Harbor 基隆港
Wangyou Valley 望幽谷
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Wangyou Valley
The sun is blazing as we arrive at a trail in eastern Keelung that will take us down a hill into Wangyou Valley – a rare sight in what is known as Taiwan’s rainy city. Slowly we descend the steps. Coastal plants cover the edges of the trail, their leaves thick and waxy to retain moisture in the salty sea air. Purple-headed thistles spring up among other wildflowers. White trumpet-nosed blooms cling to the steep cliffs. Bulbuls, white-eyes, babblers, and thrushes duck and weave among the dense thickets. Serpent eagles and goshawks soar above a coast that has been ravaged year after year, century after century by typhoons, monsoon rains, and crashing waves.
Peppered, too, amongst the hills are remnants of Keelung’s military past: pillbox guard posts and fortified lookouts peep from the undergrowth, fighting a losing battle against Mother Nature. After climbing to the top of one of the valley’s several peaks, we see the small fishing harbor of Badouzi on the left beyond, while ahead of us stretches the wide expanse of the East China Sea.
Heping Island
To the northwest of Wangyou Valley lies Heping Island. In 1626, the Spanish arrived on this island, declared it Spanish territory, and built a fortification – Fort San Salvador – on the southwestern side. The fort and any traces of the Spanish on Heping Island have, unfortunately, been largely lost to history, but a small snapshot of the island’s colonial years can be seen in the geo park on its northern side. Much like at nearby Yeliu (with its famous Queen’s Head Rock), the main attractions in the park are the divertingly shaped sandstone rocks along the sea’s edge.
Follow the path around the park and you’ll come across the Cave of Foreign Words, a 20-meter-long natural tunnel that pierces a small headland near the eastern edge of the park. Inside the cave there is, purportedly, some 17th-century graffiti left by the Dutch, who took over Fort San Salvador in the 1640s.
Baimiweng Fort
One of several old fortifications perched upon the hilltops around Keelung, Baimiweng commands a spectacular view of both the harbor and the sea. The small, winding lane that leads to the fort is a bit difficult to find, even for Keelungers, says Wang, who, with a painter’s romantic eye, goes on to compare the challenging ascent up the narrow, twisting road to the journey up to the citadel of Évora Monte in Portugal. Reaching the fortifications, you’re confronted with a spectacular vista and four large semi-circular gun emplacements, each of which was capable in its time of hosting a 5.65-meter-long cannon able to fire a steel shell 8.8 kilometers at enemy battleships. Though the current fortifications date back only to the early 1900s, Wang writes that fortifications have been built on this location since the 17th-century colonial conflicts between the Spanish and the Dutch, a fact attested by the fort’s alternate name, Holland Castle. “From here the night view of the harbor is breathtaking,” Wang writes, “and on the other side, far out to sea, you can see freighters slowly entering the harbor, while further away still you can see the sun setting.”
Central Keelung & Harbor
As a busy, working container port, central Keelung is a churning organism of cranes and freight containers, trundling cargo ships and busy-bee tugboats. The narrow streets and alleys that creep out from the narrow central harbor can become, especially on weekends, breathtakingly crowded – a situation abetted by the fact that the nearby Miaokou Night Market is one of the most famous in Taiwan.
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【台灣好好玩】Taroko Gorge 外國人去太魯閣 一整天覺得怎麽樣？
I spent all day in Taiwan's Taroko Gorge with Taiwan Vista tours and it was AWESOME. Come with me to see one of Taiwan's most famous and beautiful places!
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FILMING LOCATIONS 我們拍的地方：
QIXINGTAN BEACH 七星潭
QINGSHUI CLIFF 清水斷崖
TAROKO GORGE
SHAKADANG TRAIL 砂卡礑步道
SWALLOW GROTTO 燕子口步道
LUSHUI TRAIL 綠水步道
CHANGCHUN SHRINE 長春祠
BELL TOWER 禪光寺鐘樓
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Best Scenic Train Ride From Taipei City To Hualien - Taiwan Trip Part 9
Took a train from Taipei main station to Hualien that took around 3 hours. Nice countryside scenery along the ride that a must for people visit Taiwan.
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Wenshan Natural Hot Springs Cave in Taroko Gorge, Hualien, Taiwan
Trip to Wenshan natural hot spring in Taroko Gorge National Park. Piping hot water comes right out of the rocks in this semi exposed cave. On day with less water in the Liwu River, you can jump in the cold river and then jump back in the hot spring for a wonderful full body experience. Our hikes in Taroko almost always end with a hot spring dip!
????{Trip} LITTLE LIUQIU, small, but beautiful island (小琉球)
My first time on this island in southern Taiwan. It was very hot and we had fun riding scooters around the island, taking in the sight, going on a tidal zone eco exploration tour and just enjoying being there.
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Travel in Taiwan (9/10, 2016)
By Rick Charette
Little Liuqiu is 25 minutes by ferry from Donggang. Just 6.8 sq. km., with just 13,000 inhabitants, it’s made almost entirely of coral and is well known for its wondrous, imaginatively named coastal formations, such as Wild Boar Trench, Vase Rock, and Black Devil Cave.
Your constant companions here will be the sounds of wind, wave, and birdsong. The island’s income has long been predominantly hauled in from the sea, with an ever-bigger catch today hauled in from tourists.
As your ferry approaches Baisha, the main town, and enters Baisha Tourist Harbor, you’ll see a large and lovely arcaded Western colonial-style building high on the slope to its right – the Little Liuqiu Visitor Center. Buy tickets for the island’s boat and glass-bottom boat tour outings here, get practical help for snorkeling experiences, etc., and enjoy the sweeping vista from the wide outdoor scenic platform.
The center is right beside the top tier of the grand, ornate Lingshan Temple, which rides up the cliffside here in three tiers. One of two key deities in this sumptuous yet dignified complex is Lady Linshui (“Lady by the Water’s Edge”), a goddess of fertility and protector of women and children. One of the resident Buddhist nuns explained to me that the goddess is important to islanders because “the men also worry so much about family when out on the sea.”
Vase Rock is right off the temple’s foot on the rocky coast. This huge chunk of exposed coral has a thin base and oversized head topped with stubborn weeds and thistles. It is the island’s most iconic coastal feature, and most photographed attraction. Many come here for the sunsets, the sun dropping down neatly between flowerpot and cliff. During daytime you’ll also see many tourist-snorkelers here; snorkeling has become a big draw in the past few years. Liuqiu’s waters offer 20 types of coral and 300 fish species.
After Vase Rock, the three most popular natural attractions are Beauty Cave, Wild Boar Trench, and Black Devil Cave, encountered in that order along the island’s west side, all beside its coastal ring highway. These are the island’s only three paid-entry tourist attractions; NT$120 gets you an all-inclusive ticket.
Beauty Cave is another forceful example of the sea’s power to erode limestone and coral. Inside/outside this seaside cave, you’re presented with an elaborate layout of side caves, grottoes, cliffs, and tidal platforms.
No, no pigs at Wild Boar Trench. What is here are narrow, twisting passageways through massive uplifted-coral crags strangled by gravity-defying cliff-hugging old banyans, and the lush jungle-like flora that thrives in Liuqiu’s harsh nutrient-starved conditions.
There are many tales about the Black Devil Cave name. Most academically sound is that the Dutch, who controlled Taiwan 1624~1662, took revenge on the dark-skinned indigenous Siraya-tribe inhabitants for killing the crews of two Dutch shipwrecks, exterminating many who were hiding in the cave, using burning oil. Today’s islanders, wary of angry spirits, still burn incense here.
The White Lighthouse, on the island’s south summit, was built during the Japanese colonial era in 1929. As well, visit the impressive nearby Century Old Banyan, taking the short path behind it to a majestic clifftop eagle-view prospect. If here toward sunset, head to the close-at-hand ocean-clifftop Sunset Pavilion, where Liuqiu’s premier sundowns are to be seen.
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Baisha Tourist Harbor 白沙觀光港
Black Devil Cave 烏鬼洞
Beauty Cave 美人洞
Century Old Banyan 百年老榕樹
Lingshan Temple 靈山寺
Little Liuqiu 小琉球
Little Liuqiu Visitor Center 小琉球遊客中心
Sunset Pavilion 落日亭
Vase Rock 花瓶岩
Wild Boar Trench 山豬溝
White Lighthouse 白燈塔
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Tourism operators in Hualien promote hot springs tour bus, holiday packages
As the weather gradually gets cooler, Taiwan will soon enter the hot spring season. Tourism operators in Hualien are now promoting a hot springs tour bus. People taking part can, in the span of one day, bathe in hot springs and also visit Hualien''s scenic spots. There are also three-day, two-night hot spring packages at reasonable costs. Taiwan’s hot springs season begins in Autumn. Tourists in Hualien’s Yuli and Ruisui townships have increased markedly. The hot springs in Ruisui Township are rich in iron and when you bathe in them, your skin immediately becomes smooth and soft. In addition, Antong Hot Springs in Yuli is similarly very popular with tourists. Even foreigners are deeply fascinated. LindaGerman Foreign StudentI think Antong’s hot springs are extremely good because there are very few people here. The scenery here is really very, very beautiful. Starting in October, to coordinate with a display of fireworks in Hualien for National Day, operators of local hot spring spots are promoting a hot spring tour bus. With a hop on the bus, tourists can experience hot springs and also ecotourism. Pan Yueh-hsiaYuli Antong Hot Springs Association I am extremely grateful to our county government and our Hualien Tourism Association for doing their utmost to promote our Antong Hot Springs area. They’ve been doing this continuously. This is the third year. In addition to the hot springs tour bus, some in the industry are promoting a three-day, two-night package tour that includes a domestic round-trip airfare and two night accommodation at less than NT$4000 per person.
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Hi there, in this video, I vlogged my time in Taiwan. I took a daytrip from Taipei to Wulai, a small city known for its hot springs. I spent some time at Volando Urai Spa Resort soaking in the Wulai hot spring views. I was surprised to see how turquoise blue the water was it! It was so beautiful. I also decided to try this voiceover thing out...what do y'all think? Am I an awkward or what?? If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe!! Thanks for stopping by :)
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Taiwan 2016 Day 3 Part 3: Lushui Trail (綠水步道) in Taroko Gorge (太魯閣國家公園)
Let me take you on a scenic historical tour hike on the beautiful Lushui Trail (綠水步道) in Taroko Gorge (太魯閣國家公園). The 2km trail is an easy flat hike along the historic Cross-Hehuan Mountain Road.
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the best of Hualien County, The Gem Of Taiwan's East Coast
the best of 花莲市 Hualien County, The Gem Of Taiwan's East Coast
Holiday in Hualien
As part of the USC Summer in Taiwan program, we took a short road trip to Hualien!
Day 1:
松园别馆
櫻の田野休閒養生館
鲤鱼潭
七星潭
東大門夜市
Day 2:
清水斷崖
砂咔礑步道
太魯閣山月村
燕子口隧道
岳王亭
長春祠步道
花蓮文創園區
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Mukumugi: Taiwan’s well-kept secret
Short video that I recorded in Mukumigi Valley, 20 kilometers from Hualien. The trip was organized with Taiwan Vista Tours.
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Er Zi Shan Wild Hot Springs in Hualien, Taiwan
Wonderful trip to the dramatic landscape of this wild hot spring, about an hour's drive south of Hualien. Truly one of the most beautiful and wild places in Taiwan. It started raining in the mountains while we were there and getting back was a little more difficult than getting there! An advanced river tracing trip with Hualien Outdoors. Visit our website at hualienoutdoors.org.
Hualien Ruisui Hot Spring
Wenshan Hotspring, Taroko National Park, Taiwan
Taroko Gorge (太魯閣) near Hualien - Taiwan - BMPCC 4k
Subscribe for new video !!!!! Taroko Gorge (太魯閣) Eternal Spring Shrine Xiaozhuilu Shakadang Trail - Taiwan
Very nice place for hiking. You can rent a bike, scooter or a car and spend all the day in the Gorge. Lot of vista point with river view , temple , tunnels.
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TAIWAN DAY 4: BEITOU HOT SPRING
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