Short trip to YULI in Hualien County (花蓮玉里短暫之旅)
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
Travel in Taiwan (2019-03-04)
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.
Last week we went to the southern tip of Taiwan for a four day trip to Kending (Kenting). Here is the first video, showing you places on the eastern side of the Hengchun Peninsula.
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Kangkou Nursery, White Fig Park (白榕園)
Add: No. 457-10, Chashan Rd., Gangkou Village, Manzhou Township,
Pingtung County (屏東縣滿州鄉 港口村茶山路457之10號)
For information about entry to the park, call Ms Zhuang at 0963-522-868
Longpan Restaurant (龍磐餐飲)
Add: No. 13, Kengnei Rd., Kending, Hengchun Township, Pingtung County (屏東縣恆春鎮墾丁坑內路13號)
Tel: (08) 885-1511
Eluanbi 鵝鑾鼻
Gangkou 港口
Hengchun 恆春
Jialeshui Scenic Area 佳樂水風景區
Kending 墾丁
Longpan Park 龍磐公園
Southernmost Point 最南點
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East Coast and Eluanbi Peninsula
Like its Maobitou sibling across the way, the Eluanbi peninsula juts from its Hengchun Peninsula anchor pointing south. Its southernmost point is also the Southernmost Point of Taiwan, reached on foot in about 15 minutes from the Highway 26-side parking lot (paid parking), the last 500m along a wide, pleasant path shaded by thick tropical growth, notably various cacti species. You emerge, quite suddenly, right on the jagged, wave-pounded rocky shore, at a lookout deck with an artistic geo-point marker. Neighboring-area sightseeing spots are the historic Eluanbi Lighthouse and pristine Longkeng Ecological Protection Area.
Spread out alongside Highway 26, Longpan Park is not much more than a selfie-stop for most – move beyond the roadside parking lots to the most popular lookout points, however, and you’ll be rewarded with what to your writer are Kenting’s most magnificent visuals, save perhaps for the color-circus of its snorkeling/diving excursions. The eagle-vantage views from the coastal clifftops, with their disintegrating cliff sections (off-limits), wave-pounded reefs below, river-mouth Chashan village to the north beyond, mountain after mountain falling into the sea beyond that, are stunning. Watch for water buffalo and sika deer having a grassy meal on the cliff-base close-cropped grassy areas.
Note: Beyond selfies, this is by far the national park’s most in-demand location for wedding-photo shoots, TV-commercial shoots, etc.
North of Longpan, Highway 26 ends at a T-intersection. Turn right for almost immediate entry into Jialeshui (entry fee). This isolated, cliff-backed 2.5km stretch of coastline is one of Taiwan’s premier geological classrooms. Tours are given on open-sided golf-cart-style buses, drivers explaining (in Chinese) the three different geological layers clearly discerned, most notably pointing out the nature-carved outcroppings of the sandstone stratum, once on the sea bottom, resembling such familiar figures as the hare, frog, and seahorse.
Back at the T-intersection, inexpensive eateries line the periphery of a large parking lot. Beside this lot is a ticket booth, at the head of a picture-perfect pedestrian bridge that shoots across the river mouth here. Purchase a ticket to access the eco-park across. Better yet, call the Gangkou Community Development Association (09-6352-2868) three days in advance for a guided tour of the park (fee), learning among other precious things where/how/why the many local crab species dig “secret” homes, and also visiting the restricted White Banyan Tree Park. The magnificent old Japanese-planted banyans here are featured in Life of Pi, with special-effects help, when Pi comes across a magical floating “island,” exposed roots everywhere.
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Turtle at Hejie (合界), Kenting National Park, Taiwan
The Kenting National Park (sometimes Kending) is a national park located in the Hengchun Peninsula of Pingtung County, Taiwan, covering Hengchun, Checheng, and Manzhou Townships. Established on January 1, 1984, it is Taiwan's oldest and southernmost national park, covering the southernmost area of the Taiwan island along Bashi Channel.
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TuLiJiao (独立礁)
Hejie (合界)
San Hai (山海）
ChuShuiKou(出水口)
Kenting Dive Conditions (Sep 2015)
Water vis: 20m+
Water temperature: 28ºC - 31ºC
Surface Air temperature: 25ºC - 32ºC
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2017 MAY IN KENTING丨墾丁 (2)
♡MY 40TH FLIGHT STORY♡
Date: 2017.05.22-26
Travel companion: Friends
DAY TWO:
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Kenting, T'Ai-Wan, Taiwan 94644
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