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Wulai is a small indigenous settlement that can be quickly reached from central Taipei. For many decades it has been a popular day-trip destination for local residents and international visitors looking for some respite from the capital’s urban jungle. This is a great area to experience indigenous culture, do some hot-spring bathing, and take in refreshing mountain scenery. Wulai still has a host of attractions that make a trip worthwhile.
1. Wulai Old Street (02:30)
Bus No. 849 drops you off close to the northern end of Wulai Old Street, a narrow street lined with eateries and shops selling myriad indigenous specialties and souvenirs. Among the enticing foods you can try here are millet mochi, stir-fried mountain vegetables, bamboo-tube rice, millet and mountain litsea ice cream, wild-boar sausages, range chicken, millet wine, lamb chop soup, almond tea, and much more. If you are looking for souvenirs there is no shortage of indigenous-theme items, such as woven hats, purses, bags, and vests, glass bead bracelets, and also many packaged food and drink products, including mochi cakes and millet wine.
2. Atayal Culture (03:20)
The inhabitants of Wulai are mainly from the Atayal tribe, the third-largest indigenous group in Taiwan. If – apart from eating the yummy indigenous food offerings – you want to learn more about this tribe while in Wulai, visit the Wulai Atayal Museum, located close to the northern end of Wulai Old Street (No. 12, Wulai Street). The museum provides you with plenty of info in Chinese and English about the origins of the Atayal and their traditional ways of life, including sections about hunting, weaving, facial tattooing, and so on. At the Waterfall Area you also have the chance to witness song-and-dance performances by tribe members.
3. Hot-Spring Bathing (20:20)
Wulai is well known for its hot springs. The clear and odorless Wulai spring waters, about 80 degrees centigrade at their source, are rich in alkaline sodium bicarbonate and believed to have beneficial properties for your skin. While the free riverside open-air hot-spring pools, popular with experienced Taiwan soakers, were dismantled earlier this year, there is no lack of brick-and-mortar hot-spring establishments in and around the village. You can choose from upscale hot-spring resorts such as the Pause Landis Wulai, elegantly designed with private and public hot-spring facilities and offering fine-cuisine dining, to simple hot-spring hotels providing rooms with hot-spring bathtubs for less than NT$100/hour.
4. Waterfall Area (08:00)
The scene most closely associated with Wulai is Wulai Waterfall. To get there, cross the bridge at the southern end of Wulai Old Street, turn left, and follow the road along the river, which is closed to vehicles. The walk to the Waterfall Area takes about 20 minutes. The waterfall is an impressive 80 meters high, and is in full view from observation spots on the opposite (road) side of the river it feeds (Nanshi River).
5. Cable Car (08:42)
The cable cars you see crossing the river and ascending to a spot above the waterfall have been part of the Wulai scenery for 50 years now. To get to the base station, take the stairs adjacent to the Chief’s Cultural Village. The cable car (adult return ticket: NT$220) not only takes you above the waterfall, but also to the Yun Hsien Resort (yun-hsien.com.tw), a small recreation area – like the cable car built in the 1960s – where you can go for a walk among dense forest, row a boat on a small lake, and engage in other pleasantries. Included in these is the Yun Hsien Hotel, should you want to stay a night at the resort.
Getting there:
Getting to Wulai is simple and convenient. Take the MRT Songshan-Xindian Line to its southern terminal, Xindian. Then take bus No. 849 to the last stop, Wulai, which is at the car park near Wulai Old Street.
For more information about Wulai, visit wulai.gov.tw.
English and Chinese
Atayal tribe 泰雅族
Chief’s Cultural Village 酋長文化村
Nanshi River 南勢溪
Waterfall Area 瀑布區
Wulai 烏來
Wulai Atayal Museum 烏來泰雅民族博物館
Wulai Forestry Life Museum 烏來林業生活館
Wulai Old Street 烏來老街
Wulai Waterfall 烏來瀑布
Yun Hsien Resort 雲仙樂園
Trip to Wulai (Ulay, 烏來) in Taiwan
Trip to Wulai (Ulay, 烏來), a small tourist town in Taipei County, Taiwan, on Monday, Feb 7, 2011.
Wulai is famous for its hot springs, sightseeing, and aboriginal culture. Other activities include hiking, camping, swimming, fishing, and birdwatching. In spring, visitors come see cherry (sakura) trees bloom. The name of the town is derived from the Atayal ( 泰雅) aboriginal tribe phrase kirofu ulai or qilux ulay that means hot and poisonous. Wulai District (烏來區) is a rural district in southern New Taipei City in north Taiwan. It sits near the border with Taipei City. The Atayal aboriginal tribesmen of Wulai were once the head hunters of Taiwan.
According to locals, bathing in the odorless hot springs can cure skin diseases like ringworm, eczema, and herpes.
Main attractions:
Wulai hot springs - visitors often go to the numerous hot spring hotels, public baths, as well as the Wulai River.
Wulai Atayal Museum
Waterfalls - Several waterfalls exist in the Wulai gorge, but the largest is Wulai Falls (烏來瀑布).
Wulai Gondola or cable car - the gondola takes visitors to the top of Wulai Falls, where it accesses a hotel, conference center, and the Yunxian playground.
Yunxian playground (雲仙樂園) - a nature park with gardens, paddle boats, natural trails, and natural obstacle courses, accessible by the Gondola
Atayal aboriginal culture - many shops in Wulai specialize in aboriginal foods, arts, crafts, and clothing.
Wulai Scenic Train - this is a converted mine train built during the Japanese era that takes visitors from downtown Wulai to the attractions at the base of Wulai Falls.
【Wulai Indigenous Culture Tour 】by Guide Belynda, Taiwan
Wulai, whose tribal name means bubbling hot water, is famous for its mountainous scenery, iconic waterfall, and hot-spring & tribal culture in Taiwan!
In this tour you will experience :
•Guided explanations of Wulai’s major attractions
•Introduction to Taiwan’s aboriginal history and culture
•Scenic views of Taiwan’s mountainous terrain
•Visit to the stunning Wulai Waterfall
Welcome to join this tour :
Wulai public hot springs 烏來溫泉
A short day trip from Taipei city, this beautiful natural hot springs is located right on the river in the center of town. This hot springs is maintained and shared by the locals, who are happy to have visitors enjoy their natural treasure.
My trip to Wulai Taipei,Taiwan part 1
2008/10/21 臺北縣烏來鄉記事 Wulai Township,Taipei County,Taiwan
2008/10/21 臺北縣烏來鄉記事 Wulai Township,Taipei County,Taiwan
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烏來鄉是台灣台北縣下轄的一個鄉級次行政區，境內多山，是台北縣面積最大的行政區，也是台北縣最南境的鄉鎮。
烏来郷（うらいきょう）は台湾台北県の郷。日本統治時期には漢字表現以外にカタカナでウライとも表記された。
名称
地名はタイヤル族語の「Ulai」（沸騰の水）に由来する。実際に郷内には烏来温泉が湧出しており、台北市近郊の観光地として発展している。
地理
烏来郷は台北県の最南端、雪山山脈と加里山脈の間に位置している。東北は洪爐地山、羅宏山、大桶山が広がり坪林郷、石碇郷と接している。北側には大桶山、四明山が広がり新店市と接し、西北は卡保山、楽佩山、北挿天山を挟んで三峽鎮と、西南は北挿天山、魯培山、拉拉山、塔曼山、巴博庫魯山を挟み桃園県復興郷と、東南は雪山山脈の主要山系である巴博庫魯山、棲蘭山、拳頭母山、阿玉山、洪爐地山を挟み宜蘭県礁渓郷、員山郷、三星郷及び大同郷と接している。面積321.1306平方Kmは台北県全体の15.6%を占め、台北県最大の郷鎮である。
歴史
清代中期、タイヤル族の人々がこの地にやってきて定住してた。民族学では賽考列克群(swqoleq)馬立巴系統(Malepa)と考えられている。伝説に依ればその祖先は南投県仁愛郷の旁斯博干(Pinsebukan)地方に住居していたが、人口増加により一部が北に移動し、道光年間に札亜孔社の亜維家族が現在の烏来村、忠治村一体に移転している。
1895年、日本に依る統治が開始されると烏来は台北県の管轄となった。1896年、大嵙崁撫墾署が設置され、台北県の他に基隆、淡水庁の山林行政を担当するようになる。1898年、撫墾署が廃止となり、烏来は台北県景尾弁務署の管轄に置かれると共に、隘勇線を設置し烏来山区の治安業務が実施された。1901年、行政改編を受け深坑庁の管轄となり、更に台北庁新店支庁の管轄となり、1920年には台北州文山郡の管轄となり「蕃地」としてその下に烏来、桶壁、蚋哮、阿玉、李茂岸の5社が設けられた。
1946年、中国国民党による台湾統治が開始されると、烏来地区で地方自治が実施され、この地に烏来郷が設置され文山区の管轄下に置かれた。1946年6月15日、烏来公所が成立し、その下に烏来、信賢、忠治、孝義、福山の5村が設置された。1949年3月1日、北峰区署管轄に変更となり、1950年8月に区署が廃止されたことで台北県直轄と変更され現在に至っている。
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Wulai (traditional Chinese: 烏來鄉; pinyin: Wūlái Xiāng; POJ: U-lâi-hiong; also seen as Ulay) is a rural township in southern Taipei County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. It is famous for hot springs. The name of the town derives from the Atayal phrase kirofu ulai meaning hot and poisonous.
Attractions
Wulai is a tourist town most renowned for its hot springs, sightseeing, and aboriginal culture.
Other activities include hiking, camping, swimming, fishing, and birdwatching. During the spring, visitors come see the sakura trees bloom.
According to locals, bathing in the odorless hot springs can cure skin diseases (such as ringworm, eczema, and herpes).
Wulai hot springs - visitors often go to the numerous hot spring hotels, public baths, as well as the Wulai river.
Wulai Atayal Museum
Waterfalls - Several waterfalls exist in the Wulai gorge, but the largest is Wulai Falls (烏來瀑布).
Wulai Gondola - the gondola takes visitors to the top of Wulai Falls, where it accesses a hotel, conference center, and the Yunxian playground.
Yunxian playground (雲仙樂園) - a nature park with gardens, paddle boats, natural trails, and natural obstacle courses, accessible by the Gondola
Atayal aboriginal culture - many shops in Wulai specialize in aboriginal foods, arts, crafts, and clothing.
Wulai Scenic Train - this is a converted mine train built during the Japanese era that takes visitors from downtown Wulai to the attractions at the base of Wulai Falls.
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Trip to central Taiwan's Nantou County. Among the places visited:
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17:10 - Songlong Rock Waterfall 松瀧岩瀑布
20:00 - Qinglong Waterfall 青龍瀑布
20:55 Xiaobantian 小半天
21:00- Moso bamboo forest 孟宗竹林
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Forests, Flowers, and Waterfalls
Text: Rick Charette
Sun-Link-Sea
A “forest and nature resort,” a privately operated getaway idyll (NT$250 entry fee).
At the upper end of the resort road is at Songlong Rock Waterfall. At the base of a Cinemascope-wide semi-circular cliff is a large, deep green lagoon busy with fish in the water and eye-catching birds above. Two massive mid-lagoon boulders are covered completely with vegetation, trees “impossibly” growing atop their solid-rock bed. The cliff’s base is “gone,” to a height of 30 meters and a depth of 30, a cave now where once soft sandstone was emplaced. A paved pathway takes you along the cliff base and through the gaping hole, and you emerge directly before the waterfall itself, at its base.
Sun-Link-Sea Forest and Nature Resort
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Between Sun-Link-Sea and Xitou – Wangyou Forest
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Le Midi Hotel Chitou
This is a veritable high-mountain hideaway oasis of regal splendor amidst a world of tall trees and rugged mountains. The owners are avid hunters of European-nobility antiques, and eager to show them off. In the lobby and other areas you are regaled with imperial-French furniture, clocks, and other curios collected on hunting forays in Europe. The guestrooms are all spacious and tastefully appointed in modernistic continental European style, with bright nature-evocative green, white, and brown tones predominant. Room rates start at NT$11,000; one dinner and breakfast included
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Xiaobantian Bridge
Opened in 2014, this is mountainous Nantou County’s highest extradosed bridge, its roadbed 60 meters up from the valley floor. Its soaring grey towers are shaped like giant bamboo stalks, just like Taipei’s famed Taipei 101 tower. Xiaobantian is home to numerous fetching waterfalls, Dexing Waterfall perhaps the best-known. On the higher reaches of a boulder-strewn Beishi River tributary stream, it has two sections, the upper, 30m high, has carved a cool, calm pool at its base perfect for wading.
Sky Ladder Scenic Area (NT$50 adults)
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BeYoung Garden
On the second floor of a still-operating small inter-town bus station that looks like a set for a 1950s period movie. “Zhushan” literally means “Bamboo Mountain”; the area is renowned for bamboo cultivation and products, bamboo is a key restaurant decorative material, and the chefs make edible bamboo a prominent ingredient. Specially recommended: the “three-cups mushroom bitter-tea range chicken” and “dried bamboo with soy-braised pork” set meals.
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Shifen
Continuing inland, beyond Sandiaoling the branch line follows the river through a scenic wooded gorge. The train is soon plunged into darkness as it enters the first of four tunnels on the line. For much of the way to the next station, Dahua, the train is either underground or the tracks and the river are crammed side by side in a rocky ravine. Try to get a seat on the right-hand side to get the best views. After rain, tributary streams course down both sides of the gorge in a series of small waterfalls.
After passing tiny Dahua Station, the train emerges from the last tunnel on the branch line, rolls over a long bridge high above the river, and runs straight down the center of the main street of Shifen before coming to a halt at this village’s station. Shifen is one of the most popular stops on the line.
All kinds of Taiwanese snacks, from shaved ice and popsicles to grilled sausages and stinky tofu, can be sampled in the main street, which is also a great place to make, decorate, and set off a sky lantern. Write wishes or messages with brush and paint on the sides of a meter-tall paper lantern, fix a wad of “ghost money” inside, and after lighting the money allow the lantern to float up into the sky, where the wishes will hopefully be communicated to the gods!
Follow the crowd that gets off at the railway station to the northeastern end of Shifen Old Street, follow the main highway until you reach a fork, and take the road to the right to get to the Shifen Visitor Center and, further on, to the magnificent Shifen Waterfall. After heavy rainfall, this 30-meter-wide curtain of water is awesomely powerful, hence its nickname, “Taiwan’s Niagara Falls.” After enjoying the waterfall, cross the Waterfall Viewing Suspension Bridge right beside the railway line and return to Shifen on the main highway.
Dahua 大華
Guanyin Temple 觀音巖
Jingtong (Old Street) 菁桐(老街)
Keelung River 基隆河
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Badouzi 八斗子
Baimiwong Fort 白米甕炮臺
Heping Island Park 和平島公園
Keelung 基隆
Keelung Harbor 基隆港
Wangyou Valley 望幽谷
Travel in Taiwan (2015, 7/8)
Wangyou Valley
The sun is blazing as we arrive at a trail in eastern Keelung that will take us down a hill into Wangyou Valley – a rare sight in what is known as Taiwan’s rainy city. Slowly we descend the steps. Coastal plants cover the edges of the trail, their leaves thick and waxy to retain moisture in the salty sea air. Purple-headed thistles spring up among other wildflowers. White trumpet-nosed blooms cling to the steep cliffs. Bulbuls, white-eyes, babblers, and thrushes duck and weave among the dense thickets. Serpent eagles and goshawks soar above a coast that has been ravaged year after year, century after century by typhoons, monsoon rains, and crashing waves.
Peppered, too, amongst the hills are remnants of Keelung’s military past: pillbox guard posts and fortified lookouts peep from the undergrowth, fighting a losing battle against Mother Nature. After climbing to the top of one of the valley’s several peaks, we see the small fishing harbor of Badouzi on the left beyond, while ahead of us stretches the wide expanse of the East China Sea.
Heping Island
To the northwest of Wangyou Valley lies Heping Island. In 1626, the Spanish arrived on this island, declared it Spanish territory, and built a fortification – Fort San Salvador – on the southwestern side. The fort and any traces of the Spanish on Heping Island have, unfortunately, been largely lost to history, but a small snapshot of the island’s colonial years can be seen in the geo park on its northern side. Much like at nearby Yeliu (with its famous Queen’s Head Rock), the main attractions in the park are the divertingly shaped sandstone rocks along the sea’s edge.
Follow the path around the park and you’ll come across the Cave of Foreign Words, a 20-meter-long natural tunnel that pierces a small headland near the eastern edge of the park. Inside the cave there is, purportedly, some 17th-century graffiti left by the Dutch, who took over Fort San Salvador in the 1640s.
Baimiweng Fort
One of several old fortifications perched upon the hilltops around Keelung, Baimiweng commands a spectacular view of both the harbor and the sea. The small, winding lane that leads to the fort is a bit difficult to find, even for Keelungers, says Wang, who, with a painter’s romantic eye, goes on to compare the challenging ascent up the narrow, twisting road to the journey up to the citadel of Évora Monte in Portugal. Reaching the fortifications, you’re confronted with a spectacular vista and four large semi-circular gun emplacements, each of which was capable in its time of hosting a 5.65-meter-long cannon able to fire a steel shell 8.8 kilometers at enemy battleships. Though the current fortifications date back only to the early 1900s, Wang writes that fortifications have been built on this location since the 17th-century colonial conflicts between the Spanish and the Dutch, a fact attested by the fort’s alternate name, Holland Castle. “From here the night view of the harbor is breathtaking,” Wang writes, “and on the other side, far out to sea, you can see freighters slowly entering the harbor, while further away still you can see the sun setting.”
Central Keelung & Harbor
As a busy, working container port, central Keelung is a churning organism of cranes and freight containers, trundling cargo ships and busy-bee tugboats. The narrow streets and alleys that creep out from the narrow central harbor can become, especially on weekends, breathtakingly crowded – a situation abetted by the fact that the nearby Miaokou Night Market is one of the most famous in Taiwan.
{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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WHO ARE WE?
Thanks for asking. We are a small publishing company (Vision) based in Taipei. We produce an English magazine (Travel in Taiwan) introducing you to Taiwan as a travel destination. Read it! Lot of useful information. We also have a website with lots of articles about Taiwan. Visit it! We try to make a video or two every week.
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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
Website: (Chinese)
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
Website: (Chinese)
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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English and Chinese
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
Music: peaceOut by airtone (feat. KungFu)
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brown&gold by airtone
theOtherSide by airtone (feat. waysidedrive)
???? TRIP TO LALASHAN, with VERY OLD TREES and a CUTE CAT (北橫拉拉山)
Lalashan is a scenic area with mountain vistas, ancient trees, and yummy honey peaches. We stayed one night at the HeFong Villa. A good guesthouse with friendly owners and superb scenery.
HeFong Villa (和風山莊)
Add: No. 160, Zhongxin Rd., Upper Baling, Hualing Village, Fuxing District, Taoyuan City
(桃園市復興區華陵村上巴陵中心路160號)
Tel: (03) 391-2757 / 0978-050-927
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From Travel in Taiwan (11/12, 2016) article:
Author: Rick Charette
Lalashan
The route up Lalashan (Mt. Lala), County Highway 116, starts just past (east of) the village of Lower Baling, and ends far up on the mountain at the Lalashan Forest Reserve, on the way passing Upper Baling, an Atayal village. In the Upper Baling area you’ll travel along a sharp ridge, with deep mountain valleys visible on both sides in spots. “lala” and “baling” are both Atayal terms; the first means “beautiful,” the second “giant trees.”
On the way up, stop at the attractive stone-facade Lalashan Visitor Center, not far above Lower Baling, where there is text and video information (with English) on the area’s flora, fauna, and geography. Also visit the small nature center just before the forest reserve, which offers information on the reserve’s trails, biology, and geology. An entirely different world awaits in the reserve, where a marked boardwalk trail meanders 3.7km up and down the mountainside past 22 sacred trees. In this magical ancient-cypress cluster all are least 500 years young; the most senior sprouted 2,800 years ago, and the tallest soars 55m high. [Note: At time of writing the boardwalk was being rebuilt, with the main part of the area closed; phone (03) 391-2761 for enquiries about the latest status of the reserve.]
Taiwan’s “Sacred Trees”
During the Japanese era, Taiwan’s natural resources were systematically mapped and exploited. Narrow-gauge railways were built up into the rugged mountains in many places for extraction of its high-grade wood resources, and today a number remain – notably the Alishan Forest Railway – all popular tourist attractions. Fortunately, in numerous remote locations small stands of great trees escaped the axe, and these have also become popular tourist attractions, invariably either called shenmu (“sacred/divine trees”) or jumu (“giant trees”).
HeFong Villa is a B&B perched high on the Lalashan ridge above Upper Baling, Lalashan’s largest settlement, with an unobstructed view over the mountains to the west. The sunsets here are spectacular. The villa’s exterior reminds me of the big, rambling clapboard-siding farmhouses back in my home area, eastern North America. The high-ceilinged, spacious, simply furnished rooms are done in wood, chalet-style. Each has a small private fenced-in porch out front with a picnic table that has a barbecue grill fitted in the center; all needed equipment/utensils are supplied. Across the courtyard garden, stretched out along a slope with the owner-couple’s honey-peach orchard below, is a lovely wood-built viewing deck with picnic tables – a grand choice for enjoying your complimentary breakfast and a fresh-brewed coffee (NT$100) from the cute coffee/juice bar. (Rooms start at NT$2,500; Chinese breakfast included; bring your own towels.)
English and Chinese
Atayal tribe 泰雅族
Dahan River 大漢溪
Divine Trees Garden 神木園
jumu 巨木
Lalashan 拉拉山
Lalashan Forest Reserve 拉拉山自然保護區
Lower Baling 下巴陵
Ma-Kau Ecological Park 馬告生態公園
Northern Cross-Island Highway 北部橫貫公路
Primeval Forest Trail 原始林步道
Upper Baling 上巴陵
Xiaowulai Taiwan Glass Bridge and Sky Rope Bridge
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