R Hotel Hualien
No.122 Jungfu Road, Hualien City Hualien, 970, Taiwan
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Heading for the coast - HuaLien
Another day, another destination, our train left at 11:35am from Taipei to Hualien - down on the east coast of Taiwan. Loaded up with snacks Paul and I boarded the train and found our seats in coach 10 - seats 21 and 23 - which thankfully were together ! Out of the window we saw lots of shabby buildings and homeless sleeping under bridges, as we …
A long walk up a steep gorge: Taroko National Park
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 right …
Cycling the Pacific Coastline in Hualien
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 …
Taroko Gorge is much easier Downhill!
It was time to tackle the gorge again! However as we didn't manage to see some of the most beautiful trails around Tiansiang the first time out, we decided to ride the bus all the way and walk downhill. Well the thought of it being downhill made it sound much easier. We left the hotel and aimed to get the bus at 8:50am. The same bright yellow bus …
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Trippy Taroko
... a few older Chinese folks and a younger couple from Georgia we headed back to Tiansing for a quick lunch before embarking back onto Highway 8 and through Taroko National Park. The drive through Taroko is unlike any drive we had ever done before. The awe-inspiring diversity of sheer cliffs dropping into the gorge and majestic mountains framing the lush landscape is like the pages of a National Geographic ...



