Trip to central Taiwan's Nantou County. Among the places visited:
01:20 Beyoung Garden 竹青庭人文空間
03:00 Sky Ladder 梯子吊橋(風景區)
06:50 Le Midi Hotel Chitou 米堤大飯店
11:00 Wangyou Forest 忘憂森林
14:30 Sun-Link-Sea Forest Recreation Area 溪頭自然教育園區
15:40 - Herb and Flower Garden 草花園
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
24:30 - Dexing Waterfall 德興瀑布
25:20 - Xiaobantian Bridge 小半天高架橋
25:50 - Qilin Lake 麒麟潭
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Travel in Taiwan 2018-1-2
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
Add: No. 6, Xishan Rd., Da’an Borough, Zhushan Township, Nantou County (南投縣竹山鎮大鞍里溪山路6號)
Tel: (049) 261-1217
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Between Sun-Link-Sea and Xitou – Wangyou Forest
Beside County Road 95, a few kilometers from Sun-Link-Sea, you’ll see a large “Wangyou Forest” sign From there, a narrow road leaps up past tea fields, tilted at startling angles. Take the 15-minute huff-and-puff walk up to the forest-entrance path (NT$50 entry), or use one of the privately-operated shuttle vans (NT$200 return). Wangyou Forest is a section of tall-pine forest drowned when the creek that gurgles through was blocked by Taiwan’s infamous 921 Earthquake in 1999.
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
Le Midi Hotel Chitou
Add: No. 1, Miti St., Neihu Village, Lugu Township, Nantou County
(南投縣鹿谷鄉內湖村米堤街1號)
Tel: (049) 261-2222
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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)
A well-maintained trail brings you down, down, relentlessly down to the bottom of Taiji Gorge. Moving through thick bamboo forest, among your gorge-bottom rewards will be the Sky Ladder – a suspension-bridge engineering marvel – a sheer-cliff cave-dwelling Earth God temple below it, and Qinglong Waterfall.
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.
BeYoung Garden
Add: 2F, No. 27, Caiyuan Rd., Zhongshan Borough, Zhushan Township, Nantou County
(南投縣竹山鎮中山里菜園路27號2樓)
Tel: (04) 9265-6176
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Li River - Yangshuo, Guangxi Zhuang, China
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Li River Yangshuo
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- ... Going for a short walk before dinner down to the Li River and although still plenty of stares there were also plenty of smiles and Hellos which when replied to with a Ni ...
- ... I decided to go for a walk alongside the Li River but had lunch first since it was almost that time before I left, I needed little arm twisting to make me stay for ...
- ... We found a nice hotel (6 euro a night) right on the Li river with a private balcony looking out across the river and the mountains and right in the centre of the village ...
- ... This is the famed Li River (Lijiang) in southern China, where you can take river cruises and enjoy the magical scenery recognized in many places around the world ...
- ... The next day we did a river boat trip down a rather lovely part of the Li river - did it ourselves rather than paying a guide ...
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- Yangshuo, Guangxi Zhuang, China
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- Bamboo Rafts on the Li River by Jplusg from a blog titled Guilin toYangshuo
- Karst Peaks on the Li River by Wanderingwebbs from a blog titled Sunshine wanted. Reward offered
- Li River Cruise - Waterfall by Caraghandben from a blog titled Boats, Bikes and Hanging Dogs
- The Hills Near the Li river by Jplusg from a blog titled Guilin toYangshuo
- Bamboo rafting on Li River by Sabineontour from a blog titled Yangshuo - rural China
- Allison along the Li River by Scottflinders from a blog titled Beautiful Yangshuo
- Li River Cruise - Karsts by Caraghandben from a blog titled Boats, Bikes and Hanging Dogs
- Cruising the Li River by Jplusg from a blog titled Guilin toYangshuo
- Li River, bamboo boat by Autpit from a blog titled Day 20 to 23: Guilin - Yangshuo
- Li river Cruise by Dearl from a blog titled Yangshuo, Guangxi Province
- Li River by Wanderingwebbs from a blog titled Sunshine wanted. Reward offered
Three Natural Bridges, China
The Three Natural Bridges (simplified Chinese: 天生三桥; traditional Chinese: 天生三橋; pinyin: Tiānshēng Sān Qiáo) are a series of natural limestone bridges located in Xiannüshan Town (仙女山镇), Wulong County, Chongqing Municipality, China.
They lie within the Wulong Karst National Geology Park, itself a part of the South China Karst-Wulong Karst UNESCO World Heritage Site. In Chinese, the bridges are all named after dragons, namely Tianlong (天龙桥 – literally Sky Dragon) Qinglong (literally Azure Dragon) and Heilong (黑龙桥 – literally Black Dragon).
Three Natural Bridges include Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge, and Heilong Bridge, magnificent, magnificent, and is Asia's largest natural bridges group.