Hualien Travel Guide
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My family and I traveled to Hualien, Taiwan over the summer. It is stunning there! We mostly hiked along the gorgeous trails and explored the sights. I would highly recommend a trip there!
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Went on a 2-day trip to Taichung's coastal areas, the districts west of the city's urban center, including Wuq, Shalu, and Qingshui. Quite a few interesting places. I liked the Gaomei Wetlands best. :)
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00:40 Dajia Zhenlan Temple 大甲鎮瀾宮
02:10 Dajia Ma Mianxian 大甲媽麵線
02:30 Sanyang Mao Di Hang (Straw Hats) 三陽帽蓆行
03:10 Gaomei Wetlands 高美溼地
04:50 Aofeng Hill Viewing Platform 鰲峰山觀景平台
05:30 Taichung Harbor Hotel 台中港酒店
06:30 New Palace Restaurant 新天地餐廳
07:10 Zhao Family Ancestral Residence 趙家古厝
08:10 Wuqi Fishing Harbor 梧棲漁港
10:30 Lishui Fishing Harbor麗水漁港
11:30 Golden Ville 好好聚落
13:20 Shalu Dream Street 沙鹿夢想街
14:10 Meiren Borough Painted Village 美仁里彩繪村
16:10 Gaomei Wetlands 高美溼地
Old Dajia Town
Inform any Taiwan citizen you’ve been to Dajia and you’ll be asked if you visited Dajia Zhenlan Temple, Dajia’s key attraction. Taiwan, an island nation, venerates Mazu – the Goddess of the Sea -- like no other deity. She is worshiped at almost 900 temples. Zhenlan Temple, which dates to the 1700s, is among the most famous and powerful, and the annual Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage is the best-known event celebrating her springtime birthday.
All around Dajia Zhenlan Temple are eateries of venerable pedigree that have long been satisfying the needs of pilgrims – and locals – who have come to the temple to fulfill their spiritual needs. Dajia Ma Mianxian (“Dajia Mom Rice Noodles”; 127 Jianggong Rd. / 蔣公路127號), just a minute away on foot, is specially recommended.
The Taichung region has also long been known for high-quality traditional weaving crafts. Visit Dajia’s very last traditional straw-hat shop, Sanyang Mao Di Hang (“Sanyang Hat and Mat Shop”; 48 Jiangong Rd./ 48 建功路), a short walk from Zhenlan Temple.
Gaomei Wetlands
The Gaomei Wetlands, 3000 hectares in area with a seawall stretching 3.5 kilometers facing the Taiwan Strait, is a popular birdwatching hotspot. Members of over 120 species reside here, among the most conspicuous from the heron, ibis, heron, goose, and godwit families.
A long, meandering boardwalk brings you far out into the wetlands, beyond the sedge-grass marsh out into the intertidal zone, putting you just a few feet above the teeming world of busy fiddler crabs, mudskippers, and other tiny local denizens. The birds swoop in when the tide is out, feasting on the exposed buffet. When the tide is out, visitors are permitted to step off the end of the boardwalk in the intertidal zone, where the footing is comparatively firm and the mud thickness limited, to explore the animal goings-on on the mudflats.
Wuqi Fishing Harbor
Wuqi Fishing Harbor is just off the north end of massive Taichung Port. The latter is busy with much, much larger craft. The former’s different draws are enjoyed at varying times of the day.
There’s a lively, raucous daily fish-auction market. Most boats come in during the one or two hours before sunrise, and the scene is cacophonous, to say the least, and photo-captivating. If not a night-prowler, fret not; individual craft continually chug-a-lug in during the day, knowing local buyers punctually appearing right to provide you with unposed photo opps among the weary sailor folk.
Qingshui District
For even better views over the coastal region, head higher up Aofeng Hill to the park area immediately beyond, where two visually enticing architectural works await, Aofeng Jade Bridge and, higher still along the park’s pleasing pathway, Aofeng Hill Viewing Platform. The former is a curving waterway-leaping pedestrian bridge shaped auspiciously like a jade piece, bringing good fengshui. The latter is perhaps the coastal area’s best spot for sunsets and star-viewing.
Nearby, back down on the coastal plain, is the heritage-status Zhao Family Ancestral Residence (476 Zhongshan Rd. /中山路476號), a lyrically pretty traditional courtyard-style residential complex with the green slopes of the mountain spur at its back. Built in the late Qing Dynasty in the old south China style brought over by the ancestors of the Taiwanese, before it is a large pond.
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On this trip, we went to the East Coast of Taiwan and saw a lot of ocean. :)
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Niushan 牛山
Qingshui Cliff 清水斷崖
Qixingtan 七星潭
Sanzhan River 三棧溪
Shitiping 石梯坪
Yuedong (Moon Cave) 月洞
Qixingtan Star Sea Bed & Breakfast (七星潭星海民宿)
Add: 12, Lane 79, Qixing St., Dahan Village, Xincheng Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣新城鄉大漢村七星街79巷12號)
Tel: 0932-307-912
Website: 7starocean.com
Go to Sea Café Homestay (來去海邊咖啡民宿)
Add: 1-2 Yongfeng Rd., Fengbin Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉豐濱村永豐路1-2號); near the 48km marker on Prov. Hwy 11
Tel: (03) 879-1898
Website: goto-sea.com.tw/ (Chinese)
Sawalian (莎娃綠岸)
Add: 2-1, Ward 4, Gangkou Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉港口村4鄰2-1號)
Tel: (03) 842-1224 / 0920-330-842
Website: makutaay.com/page4.php (Chinese)
Kavalan Cuisine Restaurant (噶瑪蘭風味餐廳)
Add: 42 Xinshe Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉新社村42號)
Tel: (03) 871-1339
Hailang Café (海浪 Café)
Add: 73-1 Lide, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉立德73-1號); near the 58km marker on Prov. Hwy 11
Tel: 0912-935-208
Website: facebook.com/tapalik
Lily Studio (百合工作室)
Add: 15 Guangfeng Rd., Fengbin Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉豐濱村光豐路15號)
Tel: (03) 879-1591
Paterongan (Xinshe) Banana Fiber Workshop (新社香蕉絲工坊)
Add: 42, Ward 2, Xiaohu, Xinshe Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉新社村小湖2鄰42); near 43km marker of Prov. Hwy 11
Tel: (03) 871-1361
Website: pataronang.com (Chinese)
Travel in Taiwan (2015, 7/8)
By Rick Charette
Qixingtan is a landscaped area immediately north of Hualien City. The name means “Seven Star Lake,” but this is in fact a lovely arcing bay of crystalline blue-green Pacific waters, invariably made even more photo-friendly by local fishermen busy on their craft close inshore. The bay’s north end is the north terminus of a breezy seaside bike path stretching 21km to Nanbin Park on Hualien City’s south side. There are bike-rental stations near the bay’s north and south ends. Among the many other facilities are the Stone Sculpture Park, Star Watching Plaza, Sunrise Building (Qixingtan’s sunrises are renowned), children’s playground, and seaside botanical garden. At bikeway-side are signboards explaining the seaside ecology, many with English. Another key draw is the terrific camera-perfect view of distant Qingshui Cliff.
Shitiping. The name means “stone steps.” The dramatically terraced volcanic rock and raised-coral formations here form what looks like a staircase rising out to sea. The sea’s great erosive powers are in visually inspiring evidence here – all about are kettle holes and surging tide pools. The teeming marine life draws fishermen, shellfish collectors, and scuba divers. The distinctive ecology also features such oceanside-adapted plants as screw pine, cactus, and morning glory. There isn’t much shade, so bring water; there’s also ice cream, popsicles, and other cooling goodies available at the visitor center.
Starchasers (as in “movie stars”) will be especially thrilled to learn about the existence of Niushan, where legendary director Martin Scorcese, Irish actor Liam Neeson, and other big names recently did shooting for the movie Silence, scheduled for release in 2016. What you’ll find at the end of a steep, narrow, long-grass-brushed road that leads off the here inland-and-upland coastal highway is a long and dramatically fetching arc beach bracketed by mountains that drop into the sea. The only buildings here are right behind the isolated beach – those of the Niushan Huting, a combination restaurant/café/bar/homestay/campground complex (rainbowiscoming.com/huting; Chinese), owned by members of the Amis tribe, Taiwan’s largest, and beside these a couple of tourist-draw thatch-roof structures from the faux village built for Silence (the rest were being torn down the day we visited). “Niushan” means “cow mountain”; to find the side-road entrance, look for the highway-side “Niushan Huting” sign on a totem pole capped with a steer-head sculpture (26.6km mark).
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One Day in Hualien: Getting wonderfully lost in Taiwan
We've recently made the leap to Taiwan so we decided to do some exploring of our new home town Hualien.
Not knowing the language and having no real reference points, we've spent a great deal of time getting lost, which is fine by us...
Taiwan is home to some incredible mountain ranges, river gorges and scenic coastline. It's an adventurers paradise.
We decided to take a GoPro along to document one of our days in Hualien, here's how it went...
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Sunset at Gaomei Wetland (Taiwan) 台灣高美濕地
Gaomei Wetland Preservation Area (Gaomei Wetland) is located in Taichung Qingshui Dajia River estuary. It spans over 300 hectares, which is about 10% of Daijia River wetlands.
The land is preserved to maintain the natural ecological environment.
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Taiwan Taitung - 4 days trip video summary #2
Short summary of 4 days travelling Taitung, driving place to place from the coast to the top of Taimali mountain.
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3 View of south of Hualien city -
4 Duoliang Station -
5 Road No.26 -
6 End of Road No.26 -
7 Taimali mountain green view -
8 Taimali mountain, somewhere -
9 Taimali mountain with the 2 boobies hills -
10 South of Hualien city -
11 Luye -
12 Somewhere on my way back...
13 Sansiantai Bridge -
14 Sansiantai, village nearby -
River Tracing | Taiwan Travel Vlog
River Tracing in Taiwan - Does sliding down waterfalls, jumping off platforms and doing backward somersaults all sound like fun to you? You would be mistaken to think we were at the latest and greatest water park. But guess what? We did all of this and more river tracing in Emerald Valley, Hualien, Taiwan!
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We start our day at the Taipei 101 (previously the world's largest building) but quickly move on... The Taipei Zoo is world famous for their Giant Panda's and we finally get to see one in real life! First stop is the Maokong Gondola where we'll use our EasyCard to soar above the tree-tops! More than just a mode of transportation, the Taipei's Maokong Gondola is an attraction in and of itself. At the Taipei Zoo, Ashley turns into a crazy bird lady at the aviary. BUT the giant Panda's are the main event here and Ashley turns giddy. Before the night is through, we head back downtown Taipei to get some street food in the famous night markets.
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Taroko National Park: Must see in Taroko Gorge Taiwan [Hualien Attractions & Taiwan Tourist Spots]
Eye Travel Taiwan is a Taiwan tour service in Tarok Gorge National Park.
Taroko National Park Taiwan is one of the top tourist spots in Taiwan. It is also taiwan top attractions. Hualien Taroko park is featured with marble gorge landscape. You can take a look on our website for Taiwan travel guide. The video also show the driving way from Hualien to Taroko Gorge. Taroko Taiwan Gorge is the largest marble gorge in the world. It' is also one of the seven wonders in Asia.
If you would like to find a private guide in Taiwan in Taroko National Park, you can visit the website of Eye Travel Taiwan, which is a online platform helping you to fine a private driver for your trip in Taiwan tourist spots. Besides Taroko Gorge Taiwan, you can also find more information about Hualien attractions.