Parkview Hotel Hualien

WOW! What an amazing weekend! This weekend a group of us took a trip to the other side of the island. It was so beautiful! It was a great trip and I will do my best to explain all of our adventures....

Our group was lucky because we had a guide come with us for the whole trip (who was fluent in Chinese, very helpful!). Instead of havi...

As with previous entries, this entry is written a day later in retrospect when I'm back in Taipei. The details should be better as I actually wrote the blog out properly this time. Here goes:

Today we slept in. My alarm actually went off at 7:30am, but we didn't really wake up until about 9:30. Having missed breakfast at the hostel, I had...

Having discovered the Taroko Gorge by foot yesterday, today's challenge would be to take in the Pacific Coastline on a 20 kilometre round trip by bike. The tour was recommended to us by the kind people in the TIC at Hualien Train station. All we needed now was a bicycle. So after a lazy start we wandered down to the front desk and asked nicely a...

The reason we planned to come to Taiwan all those months ago was because it was really expensive to fly direct from Japan to Vietnam, and stopping off in Taiwan would save us some money - that said we did some internet based research and found the Taroko Gorge National Park. So today we had a fairly early start, found the bus station and the ri...

The paradise: Qilan reforest recreational area day1: *Cilan Forest Recreation Area Cilan Forest Recreation Area to there are step way in divine tree park and the way of the communing with nature step inside the amusement park, the birds and Die etc. animal aren't mutually very abundant in the divine tree area, is in addition also the important h...

We arrived at Taiwan at 7:00 am. We had to exit the gate and re-enter through security. We had to move fast as we were boarding our plane at 8 am. We were the first to arrive at the gate so we had a little time to freshen up, brush teeth, change clothe etc. We met Dr. Mike Lemings group as they were taking the same flight into Chiang Mai as we w...

V Hualienu jsme vratili auto a hned si pujcili muo-to-che (skutr). Vsichni tu na nich frci, tak chceme zapadnout. Koupili jsme si i vlastni helmy. Na motorce se toho da stihnout hrozne moc a je to legrace. Mame motorku SYM 125cc. Jezdime na ranni trhy s ovocem, nocni markety a vylety. Navstivili jsme i nocni chram v centru Hualienu. Konal se tam...

...Vedra pokracuji... Od pondeli je nas ve tride jiz jenom pet. Daniel ze San Francisca se nechal preradit do tridy, kde postupuji pomaleji. Tim, jak ma k cinstine jeste turectinu, to prestal zvladat. Doufam, ze uz nas nikdo neopusti. Zvlaste muj oblibeny Thajec Thoranit Sukhumanant, kteremu rikame Ou Kche. Je to vazne vesely chlapik a bylo by p...

Von dem Tag an, als ich wusste, dass ich nach Taiwan gehe, hatten meine lieben Eltern fest vor, mich besuchen zu kommen und jetzt war es endlich so weit. Tainan, Land und Leute Nach gut 12 Stunden Flug betraten sie zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben asiatischen Boden. Am ersten Tag waren sie zwar noch ein bisschen reisegeschaedigt, aber hier war die ...

Route: Walk through the breathtaking Taroko Gorge - Hualien County Total Distance: 24 km Altitude up: 0m Altitude down: 450m Today it's possible to sleep a bit longer and start slowly, as the main part of the walk is the 18 km spectecular Taroko Gorge. Only one day is basically not enough to do all the sightseeing and walk all the trails, but I ...