Kenting
Travel Blogs from Kenting, Taiwan
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Walking inland south - rolling hills + ocean views
... and not against the traffic ( an advise I do not follow as I want to see what's coming ) and gives me a map of Southern Taiwan - very friendly, but the map is not better than mine. Having reached the top I turn left onto No. 199, starting again with ...
Coastal Alangy Trail: Nantien-Hsyhai - Pintung
... ://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/taiwancoastline.html Still hoping that a better solution can be found and the last remaining pristine coastline in Taiwan can be saved. But to be on the safe side, take the chance to visit and walk there as long ...
Coastal Trail from Gangzai to Jialeshuei
Tough 7 hours hike across the sand dunes of Gangzai via Nanren to Jialesui. The walk on the sand dunes is not an easy one and takes time ( alternatively you can walk or drive along the river delta ( sand dunes ) on a road. First half of the trail ...
Jin Shuei Ying Trail 15.4km Section ( East )
Jin Shuei Ying Trail section of 15.4 km plus 8km walk in river bed to Dawu on East coast. The trail is well marked with km markers every 0.5 kilometers. Also the road in the river bed is easily visible. About half way you reach a village - stay in river ...
A long way on lonely coastal road - Daren
... 8:00am in the morning, luckily the wind blows a bit. Still I take cover under my umbrella. It is time that I get to Kenting to reach at least the mosr southern point as the heat will just get worse. It is really a lonely stretch, very few ...
Yeh - I reach Taiwan's Southern tip and Kenting
Route: Jialeshui - Erluanpi ( most southern tip ) - Kenting Total Distance: 22 km Altitude up: 140m altitude down: 140m Do I really think I will ever get a good sleep? It's 1:00am and a group of four young guys comes into the ...
Country roads to Jialeshui - Hawaii in Taiwan
... studies, I could serve as a great sample after weeks of eating canned and preserved food. [ This area belongs to the Kenting National Park and no new buildings are allowed to be constructed. This drives the prices for the houses in the village up, e.g ...
Coast to coast - Pintung County to Taitung County
Jin Shuei Ying ( Camp ) Historic Trail. It is one of the historic trails connecting the East and West coasts of Taiwan. Originally it has been 40km plus long, but now the first stretch is a concrete road leading to a military radar station. The remaining ...
Jin Shuei Ying Trail ( East Sec. Hsinkai to 1430m)
Jin Shuei Ying Trail Section from village Hsinkai to the official trail entrance at 1.430m. You follow the temple road towards the mountains - the trail is already marked. Then be careful: a) a road goes off on the right side - this is the road to the ...
Walk of 9km in heavy rain and storm to Gangzai
Walking the short section of 9km between Hsyhai and Gangzai on a day that turned out to be completely different than the previous days - strong rain and storm instead of sunshine. A small coastal road connects the two villages, originally only for ...
Resting a day in Kenting
Total distance: 10 km I wake up at 5:30am, after only 3.5 hours sleep. I feel like being run over by a truck. No way to move on today. I pay my camping fee and have chat with the owner of the pace whom I know. So decide to move to the Katholic ...
Ship and bus to Kaoshiung and Kenting
... ;passenger and finlly I get a seat. At 1:00am I arrive at the final bus stop a few kilometers behind Kenting village. From there I walk another 3 km to the camping place I know from my previous walk. Formalities tomorrow, ...
Kenting is phenomenal
... people staring at us from every direction pointing our the fact that our faces and hair are white and completely incomprehensible. Kenting is a beach town, lined with millions of food stands outside of all the shops that already there selling bathing ...
Beauty is in the Eye of the Explorer
... though, and as soon as our bus tour was over, Brad and I boarded another plane that would take us to Kenting on the southern tip of Taiwan, home to the most beautiful beaches that this New Jersey Yankee has ever seen. Kenting is a hopping beach town, ...
A Motorcycle Built for Two
... on the back of a motor scooter. After picking me up from the Green Island Ferry, Lucas, Nathan, and I headed down to Kenting, where we spent a week frolicking around the National Park there, arguably the most scenic location on the island. No matter how ...
South Coast Trip Day 2 and 3
... 's east coast hug the mountains and weave back, forth, up and down making the travel very uncomfortable. Needless to say we reached Kenting, one of the most Southerly towns on the island one and a half days after departure from Taipei. Upon arrival we ...
A Beach Adventure
My last weekend in Taiwan was spent at the most southern tip, Kenting, with the majority of the interns. The trip was relatively less stressful since it was an "ITRI-sponsored" trip and we had our very own chartered bus for the weekend. We left ITRI ...
My New Love
... time bodyboarding, surfing or swimming, staying up late and talking around the fire, chilling at Summer Point Jr., shopping in nearby Kenting, relaxing on the beach, working out on beach, and just enjoy the scenery around them. We had some crazy ...
Kenting Road Trip
... and left the hotel room pretty consistently at the same time so no one awoke due to noise. We took a walk down the "Kenting Strip" and found a nice restaurant near the beach called "Buffalo Joe's" that served hamburgers and cold drinks. It sort ...
Beach, Jiffy Pop, & $25/night hotel
HE SAID: We picked up our rental car in Kaohsiung for our drive to Taiwan's most beautiful beach area, Kenting. I was so happy that the car had GPS or we may have never made it out of the city. Unfortunately the roads in the GPS system are ...
Last few days of the adventure
... mainland was easier and we soon found ourselves on a train back to Fanglio where we would catch the bus back to the Surf Shack just outside Kenting for our last few days here. On the 28th at the Shack, a hostel run by a great guy named Terry, we met a ...
A Trip Around Taiwan!
... bridge, we headed south toward the southernmost tip of Taiwan. We were trying to circumnavigate the southernmost point before reaching Kenting, but we missed our turnoff and ended up taking a more direct route. Before taking the direct road, we navigated ...
Kenting
Kenting is on the very south of Taiwan and is the seaside town of the country. I stayed about 10km from Kenting in Hungchun as the saving I made in accommodation covered the cost of renting a motorbike for a couple of days. I had been looking forward to ...
Destined to find adventure.
... Korea. We met a taxi driver holding a sign up with my name on it. We were then whisked away to the Southern tip of Taiwan to Kenting where our hostel was. The drive took almost two hours and at our desitination we met Sammy a Texan who has been in Taiwan ...
Road Trip mark II
... had these lights rigged up to it - our very own disco at 11 in the morning! We got dropped off at the beach just outside Kenting - it's at the bottom of a cliff just away from the road. Don't worry mum, there were stairs, I didn't risk life and limb ...
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