A hike on road 14
I made a toadtrip on road 14 recently
Starting from the heights of road 8...
It was a clear morning, but as usual in taiwan it gets often more foggy in the afternoon
And allot of reconstructions on the mountain roads, especially road 20, 8, 9, and 21
We also visited a mountain gas station...
The staff were very good in english...pretty impressive...
After hitting road 14, we were pretty close to the highest road on taiwan...here shotgun Kris just passed 3000m above sea level
Here one could see the north peak of mountian hehuan, it is higher than the main peak but takes some hour to climb...
Many local people like to wear full hiking gear even for small walks...
We chosed to park at the highest road...it is sometimes closed due to snow fall...or the police checks that each car has snow chains...
To save time, we made a shortcut from the parking to the main peak trail
It was rather steep path but we couldnt park near the trail entrance...one can see the east peak in the background
After some 15 minutes...we reached the peak...
It was a great view of the nearby area...but not as good as last times i went here...
It was acctually the first +3000 mountain i climbed in taiwan
...then it was better view...
and in particular I could then see Zhongyangjian shan (central range point), which is such a cool mountain)...
...but now robin was focusing on helping some locals to memorize this event...than to imagine the horizon...
We also had some peak time...
And also felt the high alltitude...
We also visited taiwans highest toilet...
Robing was enjoying the view...
They also have busses going up here...from Puli area
After continung cruising road 14...we reached the highest 7-11 in taiwan...
They boys wasnt sure it was that high...since we drove more than 1000 meters downhill to reach it...but it was more a good way to realize how high 3400 meters actually is...
....some posing, while suffering from high altitude...
All bags in here were all blown up due to the low air pressure...
...we later on continued passing Qingjing sheep farm
We also passeb by suiss and brittish architecutre on these mountain road....
But we were heading to a Seediq restaurant which I had seen some years ago....we had 2 options...
From our resturant we could see the old suiss houses and the sheep farm....
The seediq restaurant also had some indian interiors...
...im not sure if everything were purely seediq...
I asked for as indigenous food as posisble...and got omellete and some cabbage...
we also got rice and a chicken...
Later on when we paid...I used my 20nt coins...since they have Mona Rudao on them...he was a very famous seediq guy...
who was fighting the japanese long time ago...
its also the story plot of the fmous movie Seediq Bale
We didnt see any sediq chaise japanese..but atleast I tried some local food from here...I might try some other seediq restaurant next time i pass by here again...
Atleast they said they were aboriginal....
Some restaurant info...
We continued road 14 closer ot Puli...and found this very north european strucutre of a conveinent stopre + gas staion solution....
I remember this place, since they have a shower in their toilet...pretty useful when backpacking on taiwan...
And it is free...
After some other minutes the raod 14 road trip was over...
We headed back to northern taiwan...and dropped Kris....who knows where next adventure will take place...
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