Two day trip to Miaoli County in northern/central Taiwan, visiting hot-spring hotel in Tai'an, a tea factory in Tongluo, and a brick factory in Yuanli. We had fun. :)
00:40 Dahu Wineland Resort 大湖酒莊
02:30 Wenshui Visitor Center 汶水遊客中心
04:25 Xishuikeng Tofu Street洗水坑豆腐街
07:20 Onsen Papawaqa 泰安觀止溫泉會館
08:50 Atayal Cultural Museum 泰雅文物館
10:40 Hushan Suspension Bridge 虎山吊橋
11:30 Onsen Papawaqa
12:40 Shuiyun Suspension Bridge 水雲吊橋
13:25 Onsen Papawaqa
16:05 Tongluo Skywalk 銅鑼天空步道
17:15 Tongluo Tea Factory 銅鑼茶廠
21:50 Jin Liang Shing (JLS) Brick Factory 金良興觀光磚廠
25:55 Yuanli Triangle Rush Exhibition Hall 藺草文化館
28:35 Dongli Jiafeng 東里家風古宅
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Dahu Wineland Resort (大湖酒莊)
Add: No. 2-4, Baliaowan, Fuxing Village, Dahu Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣大湖鄉富興村八寮灣2-4號)
Tel: (03) 799-4986
Onsen Papawaqa (泰安觀止溫泉會館)
Add: No. 58, Yuandun, Jinshui Village, Tai’an Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣泰安鄉錦水村圓墩58號)
Tel: (037) 941-777
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Atayal Cultural Museum (泰雅文物館)
Add: No. 46-3, Neighborhood 6, Jinshui Village, Tai’an Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣泰安鄉錦水村圓墩6鄰46-3號)
Tongluo Tea Factory (銅鑼茶廠)
Add: No. 132-16, Jiuhu, Jiuhu Village, Tongluo Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣銅鑼鄉九湖村九湖132-16號)
Tel: (037) 987-358
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Jin Liang Shing (JLS) Brick Factory (金良興觀光磚廠)
Add: No. 71-17, Jinshan, Shanjiao Borough, Yuanli Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣苑裡鎮山腳里錦山71-17號)
Tel: (037) 746-368
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Yuanli Triangle Rush Exhibition Hall, (藺草文化館)
Add: No. 65, Weigong Rd., Yuanli Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣苑裡鎮為公路65號)
Tel: (037) 862-141
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Dongli Jiafeng (東里家風古宅)
Add: No. 8, Neighborhood 2, Yuankeng Borough, Yuanli Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣苑裡鎮苑坑裡2鄰8號)
Tel: (037) 853-158
Website: (Chinese)
Onsen Papawaqa
The Onsen Papawaqa is a forceful work of modernist architecture directly overlooking the Wenshui riverbed. Its grey-hue exposed-concrete exterior walls, proudly and boldly showcased, echo the colors of the exposed cliff rock on the valley’s opposite side. Inside, two additional interior-décor elements are wood and stone, also chosen to echo the surrounding natural environment.
The key attraction here is, of course, the mineral-water soaking. Each room faces the river through floor-to-ceiling glass, with a window-side Japanese-style in-floor stone-slab tub. “The extensive public-area spa facilities are outside the main building; there are separate nude bathing areas for males and females, a non-nude mixed bathing area, and a wonderful cool-temperature narrow swimming pool that runs the entire main building’s length between building and riverside bluff-edge.” The evening starry-sky viewing is scintillating. In the midst of all this is a friendly, breezy thatch-roof open-air bar.
Both restaurants, on the 5th and 6th floors (the top floors), have eyrie-like views of the river before and mountain behind. The complimentary Chinese/Western buffet breakfast is taken in the 5th-floor Running Water Restaurant, which has a laddered spatial design evoking the river’s cascading waters. Lunch and dinner are served in the 6th-floor Flying Cloud Restaurant; the cuisine is Chinese, with strong Hakka and indigenous infusions, along with Western elements. Locally sourced ingredients are stressed. The Dongpo pork and sesame-oil chicken are especially good. (Rooms start at NT$7,500)
Gazing east from the Taiwan Hakka Museum, you can look down into the valley below and out over the hills toward the central mountains beyond. Just to the south, you’ll see row upon row of neatly spaced tea bushes. This is part of the 30ha tourist-oriented Tongluo Tea Factory operation. It’s centered on a factory/retail building of eye-catching modern design that offers a picture-perfect panorama of the valley through its east-side glass wall. Trains regularly run through the valley, through what looks like a model-train set. Patrons are helped in their train-spotting via a large signboard with run-through times and train types.
The main type of tea grown here is Dongfang Meiren (Oriental Beauty), which is primarily grown in Hakka areas in the hills of the northwest at lower altitudes (300~800m). Visitors can enjoy tea-tasting sessions, tours of the processing facilities and fields (in one interesting section, each row is dedicated to a single type of Taiwan-grown tea, with English signage), DIY picking for tour groups, and a meal. The latter consists of a traditional type of biandang (boxed lunch) eaten by Hakka tea-pickers and railroad workers. This comes wrapped in a gratis traditional bright-color Hakka-style head kerchief worn by female tea-pickers (separate payment for each option).
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Short trip Sanyi Township in Miaoli County, northwestern Taiwan:
00:50 Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum 三義木雕博物館
02:50 Sanyi Old Street 三義老街
06:10 Shengxing Railway Station 勝興車站
07:50 Shengxing Kezhan Restaurant 勝興客棧
09:40 Longteng Bridge Ruin 龍騰斷橋
10:50 Zhuo Ye Cottage 卓也小屋
13:30 Tongluo Skywalk 銅鑼天空步道
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Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum
Add: No. 88, Guangsheng Xincheng, Guangsheng Village, Sanyi Township, Miaoli County (苗栗縣三義鄉廣盛村廣聲新城88號)
Tel: (037) 876-009
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Shengxing Kezhan Restaurant
Add: No. 72, Neighborhood 14, Shengxing Village, Sanyi Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣三義鄉勝興村14鄰72號)
Tel: (037) 973-883
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Zhuo Ye Cottage
Add: No. 1-5, Bengshan Xia, Neighborhood 13, Shuangtan Village, Sanyi Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣三義鄉雙潭村13鄰崩山下1-5號)
Tel: (037) 879-198
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Taiwan Hakka Museum (Miaoli Hakka Culture Park)
Add: No. 6, Tongke S. Rd., Jiuhu Village, Tongluo Township, Miaoli County
(苗栗縣銅鑼郷九湖村銅科南路6號)
Tel: (037) 985-558
MIAOLI Old Mountain Line Railbike (苗栗舊山線軌道自行車)
On this one-day trip we experienced rail-biking on the Old Mountain Line. That was fun! We also visited the strawberry village of Dahu and the Hakka village of Beipu.
If you want to do the rail-biking make a reservation on this site (I was wrong, they do have English now):
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Travel in Taiwan 2019-03/04
TEXT: STEVEN CROOK
The picturesque village of Shengxing has one of Taiwan’s best-known train stations, which is surprising considering regular passenger services on the railroad that passes through here ceased more than 20 years ago. Between 1903 and 1998, what’s called the Old Mountain Line carried local, express, and freight trains across the Da’an River into the greater Taichung area. At an altitude of 402.36m, Shengxing Railway Station was the highest station above sea level on Taiwan's conventional railway network. The station, a quaint wooden cottage-style building built in 1930, is a highly photogenic structure.
After the completion of a shorter, straighter alternative to the Old Mountain Line, 15.9km of track, along with eight tunnels and three bridges, were decommissioned. The Shengxing station was closed, but never forgotten – and since last year tourists have had a new reason to come here.
Sanyi Rail Bike Fun
The Old Mountain Line Rail Bike attraction offers an unusual 90-minute experience, a railway journey amid gorgeous scenery at the speed of a bicycle, but with no pedaling required. “Rail bike” is something of a misnomer. Each vehicle is about the size of a golf cart, has four train-type wheels, and runs on unmodified rail tracks. A canopy protects the passengers (there are four seats) from sunshine and rain.
I was impressed by the number of staff on duty, and their diligence. Safety belts must be fastened, and before starting the 6km-long ride from the train station to Tunnel No. 6, each “driver” – I was the one on our “locomotive” – is shown how to start the electric motor, release the hand brake, and accelerate. If you’ve ridden one of the scooters that are ubiquitous in Taiwan, you can do this. If anything, it’s far easier: There’s no need to steer, and the vehicle has been rigged to never exceed 12 km/h.
We were instructed to pull away from the station at intervals. Having a good bit of space between each rail bike is a good idea, as drivers often get distracted by the scenery and slow right down. Almost immediately, we were heading through the 725m-long tunnel south of the station, disturbing the bats that roost within.
Much of the route is single-track, and soon we were traversing a narrow bridge far above a mountain creek. Looking left, we enjoyed excellent views of one of Miaoli’s most-adored sights: the Longteng Bridge.
We were instructed to park our rail bikes at the point on the track where riders look down onto Liyu Elementary School. Glancing toward the west, we could see rugged Mt. Huoyan, located by the Taiwan Strait coast. Its bare, sandy ridges are highly unusual in lush, tropical Taiwan.
Everyone then proceeded on foot through Tunnel No. 6 to the Neishechuan Iron Bridge. The bridge itself is off-limits, but from its north end it’s possible to enjoy views up and down the waterway that drains the Liyutan Reservoir. After learning about this spot and the history of the railway line, we rode back to Shengxing.
If you’d like to take a look at this part of the Old Mountain Line without signing up for the rail bike experience, you can reach the iron bridge via Township Road 52. Steps connect the road with the southern end of the tunnel. There’s nothing to stop you walking north through the tunnel, but a flashlight is advised.
English and Chinese
Beipu 北埔
Beipu Old Street 北埔老街
Dahu 大湖
Dapu Reservoir 大埔水庫
leicha 擂茶
Longteng Bridge 龍騰斷橋
Neishechuan Iron Bridge 內社川鐵橋
Old Mountain Line 舊山線
Shengxing Railway Station 勝興車站
The Well Teahouse水井茶堂
Tunnel No. 6 六號隧道
Miaoli, Hsinchu, & Yongheshan Reservoir 永和山水庫 (Travel Taiwan Series Day 18)
Day 18 of the ✈️ Travel Taiwan Series. Be part of the journey:
(Timestamps are below.)
0:38 Heading to Miaoli & Hsinchu
1:35 Breakfast at a small dumpling shop in Hsinchu. 3 TWD per dumpling — good or bad?
2:28 A Visit to Ten Ren Tea (天仁茶業)
3:30 An interesting place where you walk along the rocks with your bare feet, or at least with socks on, and you feel the pain of the rocks.
4:25 Exploring the awesome Yongheshan Reservoir 永和山水庫
6:30 Home made Taiwanese food right before the Chinese New Year
8:18 Preview of Day 17 of the Travel Taiwan Series:
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臺灣之旅 | Journey around Taiwan
A short montage of my 20-day trip around Taiwan.
These are the places I have explored:
Taichung - Yuanlin - Yuanzuishan - Tainan - Kaohsiung - Cingjing - Taipei - Jiufen - Yilan - Miaoli
20天臺灣之旅的點滴
留下足印的地方
臺中 － 員林 － 鳶嘴山 － 臺南 － 高雄 － 清境 －臺北 － 九份 － 宜蘭 － 苗栗
Shot on Samsung S5. Edited on Premier Pro CC.
Music: Eyes Wide Open by Tony Anderson
Green Fantasy Forest in Miaoli [ PICNIC ] OFW TAIWAN
Nag Picnic, Nag photo shoot
Taiwan Best Trip Rap - Team Above Below Tours (Jp)
Taiwan Best Trip awarded us with the opportunity to travel Taiwan for 4 days. During that time Above Below Tours documented everything we saw then promoted it to others around the world.
We ended up coming in 4th place out of the 52 teams chosen in the finals. It was a wonderful learning experience.
Enjoy our Above Below Tours Rap!
[苗栗自由行花季攻略] 苗栗銅鑼杭菊開花了，11月雪降臨！帶你到現場看一整片的杭菊，超浪漫
#鐵道之旅 #杭菊 #銅鑼
各國旅館、酒店比價查詢：
台灣旅館、飯店查詢：
免費接駁車交通資訊：
11月是苗栗銅鑼的杭菊芋頭節
每年此時都會吸引眾多遊客到當地賞花
當你漫步在銅鑼鄉村街道
你會發現一塊又一塊的杭菊田
有白有黃甚至稀有的粉紅
沿途風光景緻，讓人駐足拍照
可惜的是，九湖休閒農場附近沒有公車可以到
只能步行或者是搭乘計程車
好消息是11月17、18號(六、日)兩天
銅鑼農會有安排免費接駁車往返於
銅鑼火車站和花季會場之間
早上八點開始至下午四點結束
沒有車子的朋友，大家多多利用
如果想要了解台灣的哪一處景點，可以在下面留言給我知道，我有時間就會抽空
到當地做一個分享。
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苗栗銅鑼(Tongluo, Miaoli)客家大院(Hakka Compound) 20120501
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苗粟桐花公園客家大院 Hakka Tung Blossom Park courtyard (Taiwan)
苗栗縣民有客家,閩南,泰雅,賽夏,巴宰,道卡斯等族群,其中客家佔65%,是名符其實的客家大縣.縣政府乃在桐花公園內設置客家大院,原意在作為桐花公園的管理站,漸漸發展出傳統匠師與現代建築師共同構思的「客家大院」,使得這座三合院融合了古典與現代建築美學.大院從97年底起進行規劃設計,98年中建築施工,至99年4月完工,歷時約一年半.客家大院位於銅鑼鄉有「雙峰筆架現文光」雅譽的「雙峰山」山脈山腰,約朝東北向,面向後龍溪與銅鑼公館平原.山下「客屬大橋」一端是72線快速道路,72線是「苗栗之心桐花山城環狀旅遊線」上的重要路段.