Address: No. 168, Sec. 2, Xinghe Rd., Hegang Vil., Ruisui Township, Taiwan
The Huadong Valley or Hualien–Taitung Valley , also known as East Rift Valley or the Longitudinal Valley, is a long and narrow valley located between Central Mountain Range and Hai'an Range. It is also recognized as a plain area which stretches for about 180 kilometers near the eastern coast of Taiwan, passes from Hualien City at the north to Taitung City at the south. It was called Nakasendō Plain or simply Nakasendō during the era of Japanese rule.The valley is believed to be part of the northern terminus of the Philippine Mobile Belt, a complex collection of tectonic plate fragments and volcanic intrusions. There are three large river systems flowing through this valley, including the Hualian, Xiugulan and Beinan Rivers, all of which flow into the Pacific Ocean. The Huadong Highway, a section of Provincial Highway No. 9, runs the entire length of the valley from north to south. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- Trip to the EAST RIFT VALLEY/花東縱谷三日之旅
This is video of our trip from to Taiwan's East Rift Valley between Hualien and Taitung with footage, images, and maps.
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Bao Fung Car Rental in Hualien (寶豐租車) Add: 121, Guolian 1st Rd., Hualien City (花蓮市國聯一路121號) Tel: (03) 834-5923
Siang-Ye Knife Shop (鄉野鐵店) Add: 9, Neighborhood 7, Tongmen Village, Xiulin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣秀林鄉銅門村七鄰九號) Tel: 0933-484-244
Lin Tian Shan (林田山餐廳) Add: 80, Changqiao Rd., Changqiao Borough, Fenglin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣鳳林鎮長橋里長橋路80號) Tel: (03) 875-1999 Website: (Chinese)
Sunshine Hot Spring B&B (山下的厝) Add: 137, Sec. 3, Wenquan Rd., Ruisui Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣瑞穗鄉溫泉路三段137號) Tel: (03) 887-0203, 0937-468-021 Website:
Bamboo Village Japanese Cuisine (竹村日式料理) Add: 15, Sec. 1, Zhongshan Rd., Ruisui Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣瑞穗鄉中山路一段15號) Tel: (03) 887-6083
Green Genie (綠晶靈鮮奶鍋) Add: 52, Chenggong N. Rd., Ruisui Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣瑞穗鄉成功北路52號) Tel: (03) 887-6306
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From Travel in Taiwan magazine 2018-7-8:
Feicui Valley The pathway is less than 1km long and takes you upriver along the Mugua, through an old tunnel with dozing ceiling-clinging bats, and along an up-and-down au naturel exposed-root section to a tributary-stream waterfall with a wadeable rock pool at its base. This is the bottom of the narrow Feicui (Emerald) Valley, increasingly popular with river tracers.
Jilitan Up a tributary stream just inside the mouth you’ll find the placid Jilitan (Jili Pond). It was created by the Japanese as a log pond, and is now cleared. It’s the centerpiece of a new breeze-brushed park with walking paths, Chinese imperial-style arch bridges, and foot-soak facilities.
Jinlai Huilan B&B Located north of Ruisui town on Highway 9, the Jinlai Huilan B&B is run by a delightfully warm and young husband/wife team who not long ago decided to opt out of big-city living. Its layout is motel-like. Meals are taken in the main entrance area, and the five simple, tastefully appointed rooms, in the rear and along one side, are entered directly from outside. The tableau seen from the rooms is blissfully quaint – across valley-floor farms into the Butterfly Valley, trains drumming along with percussion-like rhythm in the distance. The meals are another soothing satisfaction. The husband has international-cuisine culinary-arts training, and clearly studied well. (Rooms start at NT$2,200) Jinlai Huilan B&B (境籟迴嵐) Add: No. 226, Sec. 3, Zhongzheng N. Rd., Ruisui Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣瑞穗鄉中正北路三段226號) Tel: 0960-667-286 Website: (Chinese)
Butterfly Valley Resort The Fuyuan National Forest Recreation Area is in yet another central-range valley. The park is between the towns of Guangfu and Ruisui. The focus here is eco-tourism. The Butterfly Valley Resort ( is managed by a commissioned private enterprise, and most of its amenities are just inside the park entrance. This is near Fuyuan Stream’s lower reaches, where the terrain is less steep. The resort’s amenities include a small upscale hotel, landscaped gardens, a butterfly museum, and an outdoor hot-spring spa. Guided eco-tours are available. These last 1.5 hours and take you through the gardens, along lower-area trails, and into the more rugged upper area. The upper area offers misty waterfalls, suspension bridges, and a broad camphor-tree stand. A fee is charged for non-hotel guests.
Coastal Skywalk The new Hualien Fengbin Sky Trail is a double-thrill attraction. The “sky trail” is a 150m cliff-clinging skywalk that hangs you right out over the ocean, breakers and shore fishermen at your feet. A 20m section is transparent. The trail follows a narrow old path hacked from the cliff face, which connected local villages during the Japanese period. The second thrill is that your access walk is along a retired cliff-edge section of Highway 11. Your skywalk return is through an old highway tunnel, today filled with gift and snack stands.
Dashibi Hill The hill on the south side of Jiqi Beach is easily ascended. It juts out into the sea, and the highway curves around it inland. The wood-stair pathway to the top, the Dashibi Hill Trail, starts at a highway-side parking lot and takes about 15 easy minutes to conquer. Your reward is splendid views of the rugged coastline north and south, local fishing craft out at sea, and the highway-side indigenous village inland.
Jiqi Beach Jiqi Beach offers 3km of soft sandy shoreline in a shallow bay surrounded by mountain on three sides. This is the first good swimming beach south of Hualien City. On the south end is a resort with water- and beach-fun equipment, a snack shop, a retail/gift shop, and a camping area with covered wooden platforms. #Hualien #Taiwan #Taiwaneverything
Cycling Taiwan: The East Rift Valley (花蓮花東縱谷)
The Amazing East Rift Valley (花蓮花東縱谷). I recently cycled the East Rift Valley from Hualien to Taitung on the east coast of Taiwan. It's a 170km route passing through the fertile Rift Valley nestled between the East Coast Mountain Range and the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan.
After having fun at Ruisui (see previous video) we went further south to visit a farm where you can learn how to make scones and wheat beer, had lunch at the Yuli Noodles restaurant, and then went bicycling on the Yufu Bikeway. We saw a LOT of rapeseed flower fields. :)
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Dongfeng Leisure Agricultural Area (東豐拾穗農場) Add: No. 71-3, Difen, Dongfeng Borough, Yuli Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣玉里鎮東豐里棣芬71-3號) Tel: (03) 888-0181
Yuli Noodles (玉里麵) Add: No. 94, Sec. 2, Zhongshan Rd., Yuli Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣玉里鎮中山路二段94號) Tel: (03) 888-1613
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Yuli From Ruisui it’s a short drive south on Provincial Highway 9 or County Road 193 to Yuli Township. The latter is favored by seasoned cyclists doing round-the-island or just East Rift Valley rides who prefer to take a more scenic and quieter road. It also offers more shade, thanks to the many roadside trees. In addition, the road has numerous vantage points from which you can take in the marvelous scenery of bright green and yellow fields and the majestic views of the central mountains on the opposite side of the valley.
Shortly before reaching the Yuli Bridge, which traverses the Xiuguluan River and connects to Highway 9 and central Yuli, you come to the Dongfeng Leisure Agricultural Area, a multipurpose farm where visitors can try their hand at such fun as making scones and brewing wheat beer using ingredients grown on the farm’s fields. Creating the small-sized scones, made with eggs, butter, and flour from the area, takes about an hour under the staff’s expert tutelage, and making the beer, a crisp, pleasing wheat ale, takes around three.
The farm was started as a rice operation 20 years ago, with pomelos also grown, but today the focus is mostly on wheat, four varieties of rice, two different kinds of beans, and a small fertilizer factory catering to local farmers looking to further enrich the already fertile soil. The factory and the fields can be toured; the wheat fields are a rare sight in subtropical Taiwan.
The East Rift Valley is well known for its fantastic cycling paths, one of the most popular being the Yufu Bikeway. Close to Yuli Railway Station are a number of bike-rental operations which rent bicycles for NT$100/4hrs, and e-bikes for NT$300 for the same amount of time. The roughly 10-kilometer stretch of paved pathway runs from Yuli Railway Station to the old railway station at the village of Dongli, following an abandoned railway line, winding among rice paddies, fields, and irrigation ponds.
About two kilometers into the ride the bikeway crosses the Xiuguluan River and the fault line dividing the Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates, traversing a railway bridge that had to be retired because of the slowly shifting land below, the work of primal tectonic forces churning many kilometers underground. Stop at the midpoint of the bridge and place your feet at a clearly marked spot that allows you to, approximately, stand with one foot on the first tectonic plate and the other on the second.
Riding along the bikeway is a great way to take in the land that is eastern Taiwan’s largest rice granary, much of the crop grown here bound for export to Japan. During the seasons of the year the views are markedly different, ranging from seas of golden rice ears to fields of bright-yellow rapeseed.
Along the pathway you will pass the platforms of two old railway stations, at Antong and Dongli, the latter marking the southern end of the bikeway. Adjacent to Dongli’s old platform, a very popular Instagram spot, is a small café where you can stop and relax, have a cup of coffee, and perhaps pick up a small locally-made souvenir before heading back to Yuli.
If you have worked up an appetite on your return to central Yuli, consider dining at the Yuli Noodles restaurant, a popular no-frills eatery serving generous portions of noodles, either dry or in soup, topped with slices of pork, celery, and bean sprouts.
0918#32 Hongye Hot Springs
Hongye Hot Springs is one of the best-known tourist spots in eastern
Taiwan. The East Rift Valley National Scenic Area administration estimates that it will cost NT$50 million to rebuild Hongye Hot Springs following damage caused by Typhoon Morakot. Yanping Township says it intends to take back management rights to the area.
Hot spring bath fun!
There are many different hot springs in the East Rift Valley. Fenglin, Ruisui, Antung, Chishang, Luye and Nanheng all have their own unique hot springs. Soak up in warm spring water and enjoy the most relaxing bath ever.
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.
Hualien City Beach(Beibin) on a December Afternoon
At present, Taiwan owns 18 national forest recreation areas at different altitudes. You may visit the national forest recreation areas in different seasons. Along with change of the altitude and topographical feature, you will discover the rich landscapes of various periods. At the high altitude, you may feel the beauty of forests on high mountains. Coniferous and broadleaf woodlands are located at middle altitude with abundant ecological resources. And low-altitude woodlands present a totally different view typically full of evergreen broadleaf trees and rich creatures as they are warm with much rainfall all the year around. In the forest recreation area, you may hike, walk, climb and appreciate the waterfall or birds and experience a colorful Taiwan and sustainable vitality. More great videos in 【Virtual Museum of Taiwan Agriculture video.coa.gov.tw 】
1128 #95 Hongye Hot Spring Disputes
Taiwan is located at the intersection of tectonic plates so there are plenty of hot spring resources. Many indigenous communities are known for the hot springs in their vicinity. Taitung's Hongye hot spring is located in Yangping Township. During the Japanese colonization period, the Japanese built a resort there and named it Hongye, meaning the red leaves for the beautiful maple leaves in the area which is also the Dahdah community of the Bunun tribe. In 2002, Bunun Culture and Education Foundation obtained the resort's management rights. It is the first time that an indigenous community has reclaimed the rights from the government to a tourism resource on reserve land. But the contract has expired. On November 26 Formosan Naruwan Hotel & Resort signed a contract with East Rift Valley National Scenic Area to acquire the management rights for NTD1.8 million. Dahdah community residents complain that they were not aware of the management shift and lament that their long-term request for compensation was again ignored.
2010.11.11 Taiwan - Rueisuei hot springs
Cycling in Taiwan: Taipei to Kaohsiung via the East Coast
*** Following Taiwan, I went to Yangshuo, China. Video here: *** OOPS (sorry!)... turns out my half-baked theory about the hotel at 10:30 is completely wrong! Thanks to the commenters that kindly pointed out the real reason (environmental regulations and an ongoing legal controversy). *** You can't do much better than Taiwan for a convenient and scenic cycling trip! Made my way from Taipei firstly northwest toward the coast, then down the East Coast via Yilan, Taroko, Hualien and Taitung before crossing over to Kenting. I ended the trip in Kaohsiung, deciding to skip on the traffic and stop lights along the main route back North to Taipei.
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