Nantou Tour (The Old England Manor, Swiss Garden, The Cingjing Farm & Wuling (Hehuanshan Mountain))
Nantou Tour (The Old England Manor , Swiss Garden , The Cingjing Farm & Wuling (Hehuanshan Mountain))
????The Old England (老英格蘭)
Rich in natural beauty, the picturesque highlands of Nantou Country are right in the centre of Taiwan. Surrounded by green hills, The Old England Manor Hotel is a unique property with a Tudor-style exterior that is an intriguing surprise to find in this part of the world. Complete with a Gothic-style clock tower, the hotel is rich in English artefacts and statues abound throughout the extensive grounds.
The interesting mix of styles continues inside The Old England Manor Hotel, with different period furniture from Rococo to Art Deco. Regency striped wallpapers and fabrics sit next to floral patterns, chandeliers and Tiffany lampshades. The overall effect is really quite striking and encapsulates a romantic feel.
Head for nearby Mount Hehuan and the easily accessible Hehuanshan National Forest Recreation Area for some impressive scenery.
????Swiss Garden (瑞士花園)
The beautiful Northern European atmosphere at the Small Swiss Garden has given it the name of “Taiwan’s Little Switzerland” and “Paradise in the Mist”. Surrounded by such conveniences as Carton King, 7-11, Mos Burger and Starbucks, many like to stop by here to spend some time in the area before they continue on to beautiful Qingjing or Hehuanshan.
The colorful flowers, bald-cypresses, red maples and LED artificial sunflowers of the garden give it a unique atmosphere. Yet, the feeling of the place can change dramatically, making some visitors like to come here twice, once during the day and the second time at night when beautiful lit-up fountains brighten the night sky. We especially recommend coming at dawn, when misty clouds float down from the mountains, as though intent on connecting you with the peaks in the distance. This place is like a beautiful painting, with you in the very center.
????The Cingjing Farm (清境農場)
Known as a “Foggy Eden” far away from the city area in the mountains, Qingjing is great for those who enjoy fresh air, lush forests, acres of flowers along the plains and hillsides, and beautiful starry nights.
Qingjing is a favourite spot to interact with farm animals such as cows and sheep. Some animals that can be found on the farm include Corriedale lamb, Hereford cow, Aberdeen Angus cow, Barbado Sheep, Arab Horse, and ponies. A horse riding show and sheep-shearing show are available for visitors to enjoy as part of farm entry ticket. Pony rides are available during the day at the Qingjing Green Green Grasslands.
Throughout the day, the sun interacting with mist and fog within, around, and over the mountaintops produces some amazing weather effects. At dawn, the sun appears to rise from a sea of clouds. In the afternoon, fog and mist can sometimes roll over the mountains to cover the hillside. At dusk, pink clouds can be produced overhead, creating an amazing sunset panorama for visitors to enjoy.
Some fruits grown on the farm include kiwi, pears, plums, and peaches.
????Wuling (Hehuanshan Mountain)(合歡山)
This “mountain of joy” is called Hehuanshan (合歡山).
Located within Hehuanshan National Forest Area, Hehuan Wuling with an altitude of 3,275 meters is the highest point in the Taiwanese highway system. When the sky in clear, this highly raved spot becomes the perfect location to appreciate the sea of clouds, the sunset and the Milky Way that spread out before you in all its glory. Crux can even be seen in the sky from April to June.
Hehuan Wuling sits between the Main Peak and the East Peak. Due to its high altitude, no matter the season, you can expect a crisp 15⁰C to set the perfect wintertime mood for your visit, which is a pleasant change from the tropical climate down below. In winter, the mountain top will be capped with snow, and crowds of tourists flock to this white winter paradise. To the east, there is a lookout that allows visitors to take in the magnificent views of Hehuanshan, Qilaishan and Nanhu Mountain. When the night falls, many photography enthusiasts will be spotted geared up to capture incredible Milky Way photographs. Forget about Alishan as the sunrise up on Hehuan Wuling is unbeatable. The golden hued rays of sunrise softly caress the horizon with the mountains bathed in the glow of the rising sun. Every single second is a marvel itself, but you have to see it for yourself.
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{Trip} QINGJING Farm and MT. HEHUAN (HEHUANSHAN)/清境農場 & 合歡山
A trip to Nantou County in central Taiwan visitng Qingjing Farm, Hehuanshan, and Wushe.
00:20 Talowan Restaurant 塔洛彎景觀餐廳
01:30 Wushe 霧社
02:10 Sunshine Vacation Villa 見晴花園渡假山莊
02:50 Lu Mama Restaurant 魯媽媽
02:27 Hehuanshan, Wuling 合歡山武嶺
05:20 Mt. Shimen 石門山
07:30 Qingjing Bowang New Village 清境博望新村
08:35 Hehuanshan Sunrise and mountain scenery
14:50 Qingjing Farm
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Nantou County Museum of Natural History (仁愛高農自然史教育館)
Add: 27, Shannong Lane, Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村山農巷27號)
Tel: (049) 280-1103
Qingjing Farm (清境農場)
Add: 170, Renhe Rd., Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村仁和路170號)
Tel: (049) 280-2748
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Qingjing Community Development Association (清靜社區發展協會)
Add: 42, Bowang Lane, Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村博望巷42號)
Tel: 0952-218-966 (Ms Li Cong-xiu)
Hehuanshan National Forest Recreation Area
Transportation
E-Go tourist-bus company
Qingjing-Hehuan Sightseeing Commentary Limousine service
Places to Stay/Eat/Buy
Qingjing Guest House (清境農場國民賓館)
Add: 25, Dingyuan New Village, Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村定遠新村25號)
Tel: (049) 280-2748
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Songxue Lou (松雪樓)
Add: 33, Guanyuan, Fushi Village, Xiulin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣秀林鄉富世村關原33號)
Tel: (04) 2522-9696
Sunshine Vacation Villa (見晴花園渡假山莊)
Add: 18-1, Dingyuan New Village, Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村定遠新村18-1號)
Tel: (049) 280-3162
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Yunnan Fengqing (雲南風情渡假山莊)
Add: 50-1, Rongguang Lane, Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村榮光巷50之1號)
Tel: (049) 280-3577
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Talowan Restaurant (塔洛彎景觀餐廳)
Add: 25-1, Xinyi Lane, Renhe Rd., Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村仁和路信義巷25-1號)
Tel: (049) 280-3839
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Lu Mama (魯媽媽)
Add: 210-2-1, Renhe Rd., Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村仁和路210之2之1號)
Tel: (049) 280-3876
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Xiu Hua Studio (秀花工作室)
Add: 77-1, Xinyi Lane, Datong Village, Ren'ai Township, Nantou County (南投縣仁愛鄉大同村信義巷77-1號)
Tel: (049) 280-1885
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Atayal 泰雅
Baiyi 擺夷
Bowang New Village 博望新村
Central Weather Bureau 中央氣象局
Cryptomeria Trail 柳杉步道
499 Steps Trail 步步高昇步道
Green Green Grassland 清清草原
Hehuanshan 合歡山
Hehuanshan Villa Visitor Center 合歡山莊遊客中心
Kenanguan 克難關
Li Cong-xiu 李從秀
Mona Rudao Memorial Park 莫那魯道紀念公園
Mt. Shimen Trail 石門山步道
Puli 埔埋
Qilai Ridge 奇萊稜脊
Sediq 賽德克
Small Swiss Garden 小瑞士花園
Tea Garden Trail 茶園步道
Wanda Reservoir 萬大水庫
Wuling 武嶺
Wushe 霧社
Wushe Incident 霧社事件
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MT. HEHUAN (Hehuanshan) Main Peak EASY HIKE (合歡山主峰輕鬆爬山)
Mt. Hehuan in central Taiwan's Nantou County is one of the easiest to hike 3,000m mountains you will ever come across. You can actually walk up there one paved road. The scenery is spectacular. Among the best Taiwan has to offer. :)
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Travel in Taiwan Jan./Feb., 2020
By Rick Charette
Hehuanshan (Mt. Hehuan) The Wuling pass is the one place that almost every Hehuanshan visitor checks off. There’s a cliffside parking lot on one highway side and a large lookout deck (public bathrooms beside it) on the other, looking out at the East Peak on the left (east), Main Peak on the right (west/northwest), and deep, empty space in front. Stretching off southwards toward the horizon from beyond the East Peak is the titanic Qilai Ridge, its ridge-top trail passage a rite of passage for serious island hikers. Abundant signage with good English at Hehuanshan vehicle-stop points and along trails explains what you’re looking at.
Hehuanshan’s peaks are among Taiwan’s “Top 100 Mountains,” a list of summits above 3,000m selected by local hiking experts based on their uniqueness, visual allure, and prominence. Few have climbed all 100. Hehuanshan’s are among the most accessible, with the Main Peak among the easiest to conquer. Hehuanshan Main Peak Trail The 1.8km (one way) Hehuanshan Main Peak Trail, which has a few sections of moderate steepness, starts right at highway-side about a kilometer down-road from the Wuling pass, back toward Qingjing. There’s no parking here, nor a bus stop; find these at the Wuling pass facility. Save for a section at the very top – the Main Peak is 3,417m high – where wooden stairs and a wooden lookout have been erected (washroom facilities also available), the “trail” is an old, narrow, now-crumbling paved roadway created by the military. Soldiers withdrew from Hehuanshan in 2000, with the formerly off-limits areas opened to the public. On the Main Peak ascent you’ll see old camouflaged pillboxes built right into the slate cliffs, and an abandoned, wind-protected barracks camp in a basin down the east slope that’s also in full view from the Wuling parking lot.
Only minimal forest cover is encountered. This is a place of low-growing alpine vegetation, decorated with the pastel-blossom beauties of such tough gems as the Yushan rhododendron, Yushan rose, high-mountain juniper, and hawkweed oxtongue. The peak was largely denuded during its military-service years, and much of what you see is thanks to a major erosion-prevention phytoremediation campaign, with 36 species of native alpine plants introduced/reintroduced.
Hehuanshan is the headwater source for two important Taiwan rivers: the Zhuoshui, which flows west to the Taiwan Strait, and the Liwu, which flows east and, on its way, has carved out the celebrated Taroko Gorge. On clear days the Liwu point-of-empty into the Pacific can be espied from the Main Peak. The stream that becomes the muddy Zhuoshui can clearly be seen forming on the almost vertical East Peak’s west face. To the south, far beyond the Qilai Ridge, iconic titans such as Yushan (Mt. Jade) and Nenggaoshan (Mt. Nenggao) make appearances.
3158 Café After your first Hehuanshan hike, a good mug of fresh-brew coffee will go down like liquid manna, and said mug and java is close at hand at the 3158 Café, just east of the Wuling pass at the roadside trailhead for the short, steep Hehuan Horn Peak ascent. The coffee is high-altitude flavorsome, and since this is billed as Taiwan’s highest coffee joint – the “3158” refers to the location’s altitude – what better take-home souvenir than the mug you drink from? Your coffee is NT$150; NT$100 is returned if mug is returned. Hot snacks such as zongzi (rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves) and baozi (steamed buns) are also available.
The café is perched on Hehuanshan’s east-facing side, looking out toward the Taroko Gorge and Pacific Ocean. Warm air swooping up from the coast often create heavy, roiling romantic mist on this face. Also hugging the high slope here, diagonally across the highway from the café, is the famed Songxue Lodge, Taiwan’s highest place of accommodation.
Hehuanshan 合歡山
Hehuanshan Main Peak Trail 合歡山主峰步道
Hehuan Mountain Dark Sky Park 合歡山暗空公園
Songxue Lodge 松雪樓
Wuling 武嶺
Xiaoqilai Trail 小奇萊步道
Florence Resort Villa Hotel CingJing Nantou Renai Taiwan
Florence Resort Villa Hotel CingJing Nantou Renai Taiwan
Florence Resort is a European themed villa hotel in Cingjing, Nantou county of Renai, Taiwan. It offers various types of rooms with different types of interior designs.
Florence Resort Villa Hotel is one of the most popular places to stay in Cingjing Taiwan.
QINGJING SKYWALK & The Old England Manor (清境高空景觀步道/老英格蘭莊園)
Qingjing is a very popular high-mountain farm area in central Taiwan. One of the attractions there is the elevated Qingjing Skywalk. The best-known place to stay in the area is The Old England Manor
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Travel in Taiwan 2020-01-02
By Rick Charette
Qingjing has been dubbed “Foggy Eden,” and its ambience has also given rise to another moniker that has taken deeper hold with the general public, “Little Switzerland.” As you approach the mountaintop-hugging enclave from the lowlands you’ll notice that the architecture, with the multistory homestays/inns prominent, has a distinctive European-manor flavor. This movement was kickstarted with the building, and instant island-wide renown, of a large inn called The Old England in 2009. In the years since then, the enjoyment of afternoon tea has become a Taiwan fad, and The Old England and other Qingjing establishments add sublime “up-in-the-heavens” tableaux to the experience.
The impressive Tudor manor-style complex is the realized dream of a Taiwan flatlander who fell in love with old English-style architecture while resident in the small anglophile Canadian city of Victoria. At the same time harboring a love for Qingjing’s transcendental surroundings, he wanted to encourage a more genteel demeanor for the community, which to that point was dominated by accommodations and eateries of a more rustic nature.
The Old England introduced the afternoon tea tradition to Qingjing, and its service remains the most popular. Served 11:30am~4pm (NT$500 per serving) in its plush chandeliered restaurant, its English-style tea features Earl Grey Tea and a merry-go-round of delicacies, created by a dessert master, served on a three-tiered tray. Changed seasonally, the treats go from savory at bottom to sweet at top, ranging from (on this Travel in Taiwan trip) a schweinshaxe mini-kebab and bacon scallion Danish pastry to a canelé and macaron.
The Old England (老英格蘭)
Add: No. 20-3, Shouting Lane, Datong Village, Ren’ai Township, Nantou County
(南投縣仁愛鄉大同村壽亭巷20-3號)
Tel: (049) 280-2166
Website: theoldengland.com
While The Old England faces the mighty Qilai Ridge to the east, the Impression Nordic Manor Club faces southwest toward the indigenous village of Wushe, the deep Wushe Reservoir below, and the mountain-basin town of Puli far beyond, back down along the river-valley route that brought you up from the western plains. The façade of this inn is modernistic with Tudor-style flourishes; inside and on the large outdoor deck with infinity pool, the lines are Scandinavian-clean. While The Old England immerses you in sumptuous, quiet-inspiring Victorian-style trappings, the Impression Nordic has a congenial party atmosphere – captured in the use of “club” in the name – with a putting-green facility, a slide hill, and a large gym joining the deck/infinity pool.
The bright, sunny first-floor restaurant looks out directly over the deck/pool area. Afternoon tea, which features a full buffet set-up, is served 3~5pm (NT$900 per person). The panoply of delectables includes tangerine smoked duck mini-toast, smoked salmon rolls, yogurt shrimp mini-toast, spaghetti marinara (and alfredo), ham and cheese finger sandwiches, European-style cookies, fresh fruit and juices, and numerous other selections. And as at The Old England, fresh-brew premium coffee is available. As well, imported wine and whisky are displayed in chiller buckets on the buffet bar for diners’ gratis enjoyment. This generous “party club” spirit is also in evidence in the evening, when gratis wines and spirits are made available to guests in the deck/pool area.
Impression Nordic Manor Club (印象北歐)
Add: No. 9-9, Rongguang Lane, Datong Village, Ren’ai Township, Nantou County
(南投縣仁愛鄉大同村榮光巷9-9號)
Tel: (049) 280-3982
Website: impression-nordic.com.tw
TAIWAN #2 - Where's the ALPACAS?!
Probably had the most walking done on the whole trip! UNBELIEVABLE! But thank goodness the weather was AMAZING!
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Cingjing Farm: Run down Hill
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Yushan Main Peak - Summit Trekking and Adventure
Yushan Main Peak, Taiwan
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