????{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- PENGHU 3-Day Trip/澎湖三日遊
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We visited places on the main island and the smaller islands of Qimei and Wang'an. Unfortunately an approaching typhoon messed up our original plan of visiting another island, Jibei. We rented scooters which is the best way to get around. The double heart stone weir was indeed beautiful, the whale cave was impressive too. There was less people on the fine sand beach than we expected. Overall a nice trip.
Migrator Intertidal Homestay (候鳥潮間帶民宿)
Add: 34-3, Chengqian Village, Baisha Township, Penghu County (澎湖縣白沙鄉城前村34-3號)
Tel: 0921-292-029
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“Old-Time Tianjin Xialongbao” (回味天津小籠包)
Add: 43, Juguang New Village, Magong City (馬公市莒光新村43號)
Tel: 0919-872-143
Aimen Beach 隘門沙灘
Baisha 白沙
Erkan Village 二崁村
Four-Eyed Well 四眼井
Lintou Beach 林投沙灘
Magong 馬公
Magong Cultural Center 媽宮文化城
Mazu 媽祖
Penghu 澎湖
Qimei 七美
Qingwan Cactus Park 青灣仙人掌公園,
Shanshui Beach 山水沙灘
Shili Beach 時裡沙灘
Taiwan Strait 台灣海峽
Tianhou Temple天后宮主
Tiantai Hill 天台山
Twin Hearts Stone Weir雙心石滬;
Wang’an望安
Xiyu 西嶼
Yuwengdao Lighthouse漁翁島燈塔
Zhongshe中社聚落群
Zhongyang Street中央街
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Also watch the latest video on this channel: {Trip} LALASHAN on the Northern Cross-Island Highway (北橫拉拉山)
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Travel in Taiwan (2015, 9/10)
By Rick Charette
We woke up bright and early this day to catch an early-morning ferry to Qimei, the southernmost South Sea island. Hopping on scooters right at the pier (rental included in ferry-ticket price), we headed out on the very quiet coastal road – more goats than cars. Qimei’s iconic symbol is the Twin Hearts Stone Weir, made of stones piled laboriously, which fills at high tide and leaves fish stranded at low. The Tomb of the Seven Beauties – “Qimei” means “Seven Beauties” – is built around a well down which seven chaste Ming Dynasty maidens are said to have thrown themselves on the approach of nasty-intent Japanese pirates. Among the other must-visit Qimei attractions we checked off our to-do list were the picturesque Little Taiwan and Waiting for Husband Rock, two coastal rock formations viewed from above.
Rather than traveling straight back to Magong, we stopped off at Wang’an for a few hours’ exploration of this island. The highlights of our meander along the sleepy round-island coastal road? Tiantai Hill and the village of Zhongshe. Your walk up Tiantai Hill, the island’s highest point, leads to wonderful panoramic views over Wang’an and its numerous nearby islands. Wonderful Zhongshe is an old narrow-lane fishing village, almost all homes stone/coral-built. Be sure to stop in for the homemade ice-cream at the shop – shade is at a premium in the village – under the huge Penghu-renowned “Wang’an Township Tree,” an Indian almond tree planted by the shop owner’s mother in 1928.
Penghu is home to many long, fine-sand beaches. Four of the most popular are on the island of Penghu’s south side – Lintou, Aimen, Shanshui, and Shili. On the morn of this day we visited each in turn. I especially like Lintou and Shanshui. Lintou and Aimen are connected by a long beach-edge boardwalk; behind Lintou Beach is Lintou Park, a shady, aesthetically laid-out tree park in which you can sit yourself down to alfresco coffee at a bright and breezy café. At Shanshui’s entrance is a bustling cluster of beach-bum-style eateries and cafés, and backing its west side is an attractive protected lagoon area traversed in part by a long boardwalk. This leads to a high promontory that drops into the surf at the beach’s west end. Topped with a large lookout, formerly part of an off-limits military zone, the promontory is dotted with abandoned camouflaged bunkers, pillboxes, and other facilities, one outfitted with heritage photos and information boards (Chinese) on this spot’s military and ecological past.
Near Shili, pretty much at Penghu’s southwest tip, is the compelling, still-being-developed Qingwan Cactus Park. There are two foci. Cacti, yes – the archipelago’s dry, flattish, windswept environment is perfect for cactus growth. And military history – the park site is a former Japanese military base rich in ruins, notably hidden big-gun emplacements, bunker barracks, and command posts.
2009 12 China - Jiuhua_Shan.mp4
A long hike to the top of the holy Buddhist mountain on Jiuhua, in the Chinese province on Anhui
Visit to holy mountain Jiuhua San
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Mount Jiu Hua and its Temples
Mount Jiuhua (Nine Glorious Mountains) is one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism. It is located in Qingyang County in Anhui province and is famous for its rich landscape and ancient temples.
Many of the mountain's shrines and temples are dedicated to Ksitigarbha, who is a bodhisattva and protector of beings in hell realms according to Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Pious Buddhists often visit Anhui to climb to Greater Tiantai peak, which is regarded as Jiuhuashan's most important peak, although it is not the tallest.
【離島風情系列-10】澎湖文石的故鄉望安島
【離島風情系列-10】─文石的故鄉望安島
以盛產文石著名的望安島，望安在七美的北方，距離馬公大約需要五十分鐘的船程，是澎湖的第4大島，面積有8.47平方公里，望安是由舊名八罩改名的，據說是從前鄭成功，由金門帶兵來台灣經過七美島，遙望八罩島希望能平安到達，
於是將這裡改名為望安，澎湖咾咕石砌成的房子，是建築的一大特色，目前保留最完整的古厝，同時也是佔地最廣的，就屬望安中社村的花宅古厝了，咾咕石其實就是海底的珊瑚礁石，由於當地缺乏建材，便就地取材的利用海底資源，一塊塊咾咕石堆砌的房子和土牆，有說不出來的純樸之美，天台山是望安重要的天然觀光資源，順著一條直通天台山上的小路，我們便踏進了天台仙境了，所謂的天台仙境，是和民間傳說的故事有關，相傳八仙中的呂洞賓，曾經在天台山上留下一個左腳印，而在海的另一端有座花嶼，上面則有個右腳印。
[Islands style series -10] - Manuscript's hometown Wang An Island
It is the fourth largest island of Penghu, with an area of 8.47 square kilometers. Wang An is renamed by the old name of the eight hoods. , Is said to have been former Zheng Chenggong, led by the Golden Gate troops to Taiwan through the seven islands, look at the eight island hope to arrive safely,
So will be renamed here Wangan, Penghu mound stone into the house, is a major feature of the building, the most complete preservation of the ancient house, but also the most extensive, it is Wangan Zhongcun Village House Ancient house, and in fact, the coral reef is the bottom of the coral reef, due to the lack of local building materials, they will take the use of submarine resources, a piece of mound of stone house and walls, can not tell the simple beauty, Tiantai Mountain Is the important natural sightseeing resources, along a path through the Tiantai Mountain, we entered the rooftop fairyland, the so-called rooftop fairyland, and the story of folk tales, according to legend, eight cents in the Lv Dongbin, once in the Tiantai Mountain Leaving a left footprint, and at the other end of the sea there is a flower lantern, above there is a right footprint.
Road movie - Jiuhua Mountain China 2014 (GoPro)
Journey to the 6th World Traditional Wushu Championships (2014) @ Jiuhua Mountain China. Road movie shot by GoPro HERO3.
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