good morning Taiwan!
Two Wheel Cruise here!
checking in in Hualien
with my wife, Thuong
she just arrived in Taiwan last night
we took the late-night train here to Hualien from Taipei
and today we're going out for an adventure
we'll be cycling to taroko national park
there's a big typhoon in the south part of Taiwan right now lots of rain clouds affecting this area as well
but we've got a little bit of a sunny break
it looks like the mountains are a bit cloudy
it might be a little bit risky
but we're up for an adventure
we've got our matching shirts on today
we're totally standing out as tourists but that's ok
we've got our high visibility bright green shirts on perfect for cycling
we're making our way to the giant bicycle store to rent our bicycles for today
and then we'll be on the road so
let's go check back in at the giant store!
we just picked up our bikes from the giant rental store
this is my bike
Thuong's bike is this one
and we got some sweet cute water bottles
Thuong is pretty excited about
we're gonna go ahead and get started
thank you
just about ready to start our ride
but first we got to grab some food
we haven't eaten anything yet
luckily, there's a 7-eleven convenience store right over here
so we're gonna grab a quick snack
and then get on the road
stocked up on some bread for later
this is the red bean bread so luckily
knowing kanji you know this means like red and this mean bean so can guess this is the red bean bread
this is the Mexico bread
it's really good
we're not going to eat breakfast here
we're gonna keep going on and try and
find some other place to eat breakfast
not looking good for us weather-wise
those are some massive clouds surrounding that mountain which we're about to go enter
we've started to make our way out of Hualien
we're going North along the East-coast
river path right now and already just
there's all these planes flying around
there must be some sort of military base nearby here
because these aren't like normal planes
these are like military planes it's
It's really loud, so I'm gonna put the camera away now..
so some first impressions
I thought Japan had a lot of 7-elevens
but they've got 7-eleven fever here in Taiwan
There's a new 7-eleven on every street block
there's one here and right back there
it's also weird riding on the right side of the road
we usually ride on the left side of the road in Japan
so far the scenery has been really awesome
it's really hot right now
but it's not so bad because the wind is really strong
really happy to be out here cycling
really happy everything worked out smoothly
these rental bicycles are awesome!
pretty fast and pretty solid and they got a lot of storage with the bags
only complaint I have so far is those planes are really loud
is this normal here?
or is this a special military drill?
if it happens everyday, it must be pretty annoying
anyway continuing on
hopefully get a ride along the coast and
take the scenic route up into Taroko National Park
great thing about Taiwan is all the
public athletic facilities you see
there's just a little place to work out here
here's a this is a pretty bad example
because this is a pretty rundown tennis court
the main point is they have these facilities everywhere
and here we go that seems to be a
rundown one but right next to here we've
especially in Taipei they have those parks everywhere so free public
tennis courts free public basketball
courts nothing like that in Japan
there's no place to play basketball or tennis outside for free
there are a lot of tennis courts, but they require reservations and money
months in advance one of the things I
really love here about Taiwan is just the free public athletic facilities here
we go this is their new Athletic Park it
looks like beautiful really nice we're
also riding in sandals today
her new sandals we bought in Vietnam my
sandals we got in Vietnam and the reason
for that is because it's really sunny
right here but it looks like it's gonna
rain over there so just in case it rains
we're protected so speaking of the
military earlier it looks like we're
right by one of the military bases
because they've got all the fences lined
up here with the barbed wire and they
had some pictures of the Jets on the
walls looks like we're on the right track
Taroko National Park!
stopping for a quick snack these look
pretty good we're gonna give it a try
really hot out there we're sweating
pretty bad taking a quick break at the
convenient to grab some cold sports
drinks and stock up on some other snacks
just in case because we're about to go enter Taroko National Park
so we're gonna be climbing up into the
mountains in a bit and we're not sure
how isolated it is how many shops are
anything there's gonna be there so I'm
gonna stock up here real quick and cool
off in the AC for a second about 20k in
so it took us about 20 K to ride over
here we also got that really good
looking like bun that we're pretty
excited to try out so quick fuel up and
then we're going to be back on the road
full of meat, Thuong's favorite
one of my favorite snacks here in Taiwan
I think it's called through joking so
it's like a peppered bread club this
one's a little bit different since the
It's so hot!
but we're gonna go back on the road
hopefully it's a bit cooler in the gorge
looks like we might not get hit with rain it is still a bit cloudy over in the mountains but I'm crossing our fingers
we might be lucky let's get back on the road
absolutely loving all of the canopy trees here and especially the bike lane here
granted this is for the scooters and the bikes and stuff like that but cyclists can use them too
there's not much traffic really nice
looks like we're starting to enter the main gorge area we've got a little
descent here and looks like we're gonna be wedged in between the mountains right straight up ahead
we haven't even entered yet and I'm already getting a good feeling
this is gonna be beautiful!
the last 7-eleven before we enter
mountains I forgot to mention in earlier
in today's vlog that today's course is actually part of the Taiwan KOM challenge
so a really popular hill climb race here in Taiwan
this race is multiple times a year
the year but I think the main one is in
September or October or around there
really want to participate in that one day
today we're not riding the full course
it's about 100 kilometres and climbs up over 3,000 meters of elevation gain
pretty insane.. We're not doing that on these bikes in these clothes..
hopefully we'll do that another day
today we're just checking out the main
attractions at the gorge and nearby the
see some pretty cool stuff pretty soon
looks like we got some restaurants and shops here
we've arrived at the main entrance everyone stopped by this bridge
taking pictures pretty cool site looks like a kind of dried-up river but a couple streams is still going
they got water markers there by the bridge so I wonder if once upon a time or sometimes
if there's some bad flooding if the
water level rises up to get up there
they'll be pretty insane considering how
low it is right now anyway here's the
gate for the entrance to the park we're
gonna ride through that and go check it
out and then already you can see some of
the awesome cool little tunnels that
we're gonna pass through there's one
example right there
most people come here by touring buses
so I'm guessing we're gonna run into a
lot of those buses on the road time to
begin
starting with some absolute beautiful
views just instantly as we entered the
park all of those sort of like cave
tunnels where you're just going through
and it's rocks right here you can see
we're going through another one and
these are actually as cool as they are
these are a bit scary there was a local
rider from in Japan where I live who was
riding in this area last year and a
falling rock hit his head which killed
him and so you do need to be extra
careful while you're riding through here
make sure you are wearing a helmet we
rented some extra helmets from the giant
store today as well those cost an extra
100 Taiwanese dollars for our whole trip
which isn't bad and men just loving
riding through here even though it is a
bit busy with cars the roads are a bit
more narrow than the other roads but
it's not so bad everyone's pretty polite
and respectful because there's lots of
cyclists and pedestrians here but yeah
just them being surrounded by like being
in a gorge surrounded by tall massive
mountains on both sides the beautiful
river in the center and it's just
beautiful clear water beautiful bridges
here's a sign watch out for falling
rocks especially now when it's like
storm season there's all the typhoons
heavy winds strong rains coming here
must be really dangerous we're about to
go through this sort of big tunnel not
super big but we just turned our lights
on luckily these bikes came with lights
coming out of the tunnel we got two
different splits here we're gonna go
check out the what is this the Chung tun
temple
Oh Sun starting to come out beautiful
view as we approach the temple over here
in the waterfall there we go beautiful
view of the waterfall and temple area
over there key date on a demo Kimi hotel
today Jenai
I can't emphasize our show properly in
the camera how tall and how massive
these mountains are but just take a look
at this it looks like there's a hiking
path that goes up along here you can see
sort of some trails built into the side
of the mountain right there and this
goes all the way all the way all the way
up
there's also another shrine or temple
over there as well so it looks like if
you hike up you can get up to the other
part don't think we're gonna do that
today though
we just took a look at the map to figure
out where we are and what sort of
attractions there are here and it looks
like we just sort of went through loop
so we're gonna go back to where we just
were and I think these are most of the
main tourist attraction areas in here
but we're gonna try and continue and go
climb up the mountain a little bit I'll
see how far I can convince tone to go
until we decide to turn around so we're
gonna write a bit more of the kom
climbing course hopefully get a few more
beautiful sights in along the way all
right let's get back on the road
looks like a pretty old bridge guess you
can walk over that must be one of the
parts of the hiking trails oh it says
don't enter so never mind don't go there
man just surrounded by beautiful sights
no matter which direction you look
it looks like they're working on our new
tunnel here so it's pushing her way
through the climb
looks like the tunnel that we saw
earlier it just comes out right here
that's really not that long only like a
kilometer maybe to not shower where
they're making that but looks nice I'm
gonna stop and take a quick break here
right by the dam it looks like there's a
lot more water up here and they're just
filtering through the stem
I think towing may have reached her
limit so we're gonna stop eat a snack
and see she's willing to continue or not
so let's eat some of the on phone with
the red bean bread that we bought
earlier these bags that were renting are
pretty cool they're not quite waterproof
but they do have a waterproof cover that
will come up in to protect it if we need
it it's got pouches in the backs for our
drinks and yeah just really useful
everything came included with the bike
rental we paid 1,700 Taiwanese dollars
for the three days came with all these
the two bags in the back the back in the
front we got a water bottle and the pump
in computer lights everything
so the spread turned out to be not just
red bean but it's got a little bit of
cream inside there as well
pretty good snack we're in this little
pavilion thing nice little rest stop by
the dam beautiful view of the river from
here full body of water now and really
lucky with the clouds everywhere so far
everywhere that we've been riding we
haven't been under the dark clouds yet
they just seem to be stuck deeper in the
mountains little break is over we're
gonna go back on the road let's get
going on to the next attraction
we found one of the remaining tourist
spots
looks like it's gonna be a pretty tough
climb I asked him do you want to climb
this or not and she's like let's just do
it and so we're gonna give it a try
not sure how high we're gonna go not
sure how beautiful the site is going to
be up at the top but we're gonna start
climbing
so that was a little tough of a climb to
get up here and up at the top here we've
got this kind of like recreational
center lots of families out here most
people would be driving up here there's
also a couple of buses that came up here
and not quite sure all there is to do
but we don't have too much time to stick
around but it looks like you can keep
hiking a little bit up to the top we
were hoping to be able to ride our bikes
to the top and get a really nice view so
we came all the way here we might as
well check out this little hiking path
here and see if there's a nice view up
at the top this says the the village
hotel or something so we're gonna try
and I guess we could ride up this but
we're probably going to walk up it after
finding a few signs and reading a bit of
more about this place found out that
this is kind of like the region where
the more indigenous old Taiwanese
population used to live and have kind of
like a tribe I guess so we've got some
statues here we just climbed up to the
top of that road and they've got the
hotel here so all decorated in the old
fashioned style I guess the old style
kind of reminds me a bit of like the
Native American population in the US so
we've got some designs decorated all
over the place looks like they have some
nature paths and some unique places
built all over the area pretty cool so
let's try and explore a little bit more
before we head back some nice artwork
here
so up here it looks like this is kind of
where the hotel connects to looks like
they've got some more like older style
buildings and I guess you can stay here
camp out here and sort of experience
like the older lifestyle I guess a bunch
of hiking paths hiking trails all around
pretty cool place anyway I think that's
all we're going to explore here for now
we don't have too much time got to start
heading back before it gets dark
so we decided to continue on and go to
the last and final stop on the trail it
was so close we had to do it this is
called swallow grotto and another
beautiful view of the gorge right here
apparently in this section you also need
to wear helmets
everyone's got helmets on all the
regular pedestrians as well luckily
we've already got our helmets
co-op
so they've got little holes oh wow this
is beautiful little holes going in here
Wow the wall over there is just awesome
just not quite there's another one over
here
Wow check out all those holes over there
massive drop that is really cool
it is so beautiful here
nothing quite does it justice I've seen
videos of the race footage from the ko
I'm challenged and we're riding through
that main gorge area right now just
super wide open and insanely beautiful
unfortunately going to call it quits for
right now we've got about two and a half
hours till sunset and it's going to take
us about that long to get home so we're
heading back hopefully it'll be mostly
just sent out of here totems pretty low
on energy
and we're going to get some food at the
end once we exit out of the mountains
anyway here's a nice beautiful montage
of our ride back
we're just exited teracle National Park
had a blast going down that descent that
was really nice and we're at about 55 KN
completely done on sandals and feet are
starting to hurt right now because
they're not as stiff as I'd like them to
be for this kind of long ride but
tongues holding up pretty good but we're
gonna go get some food right now because
we're brilliant hungry we haven't eaten
a real solid meal all day we've just
been eating sort of snacks like bread it
different actually mostly just bread so
we're gonna get our reward meal and
search for some good food so let's see
what food options we can find here
Iman Oh Joshua mom I guess we that makes
you suckers old so we stopped by the
convenience store which is one of the
few places that's open and we got some
milk they're really famous with their
soy milk here this is one of my favorite
ones that I drank last time no sugar
high fiber and chunks gonna try the
papaya milk I also got sunburned by the
way you can see here I didn't ripe any
sunscreen on my knees so a little bit of
sunburn but nothing bad anyway
let's let's drink some milk
unfortunately this is going to be the
end of our day trip recycling ride from
qualia into tautoko National Park for
anyone who's in the area and thinking
about renting bikes and doing this route
we highly recommend it we had a great
time checking out all the beautiful
views in the mountains but definitely be
prepared there is a decent amount of
climbing despite the beautiful weather
that we had for most of the day we did
get hit with a little bit of rain for
our ride back home if you're interested
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