Preparing a new hike...
Im preparing a new hike today...
Just as when I went to Xueshan (second highest mountain in taiwan) I brought m&m´s...i will try to make a 1 day hike, but im prepared for a 2 day hike...monkeys and mosquitos are waiting in the mountain near hsinchu where im going...
A friend was about to join, but no one provided his data, so that we could apply for a permit...to bad...
Delegates from Sweden visited Taiwan
A member of Committee on Industry and Trade with some swedish governmental comitee members visited taiwan to discuss trade...and many european firms feels discriminated since Taiwan loves USA so much...
So they negotiated with the taiwanese government for some week...
And also visited the swedish trade council...
It was interesting, also representatives from swedish companies attended...
It was very interesting...They will fly to many places in taiwan this week to get a good picture of the need ot the country...and also to encourrage taiwan to support more free trade...
Burger and honey beer...
I made some burgers today for lunch...
I also tried a beer with honey flavour...but it was not that good...I hoped it will tsate like my favorite beer...but this honey flavour was stronger...and kind of destroyed the beer taste...
A new all you can eat sushi restaurant in taipei
I visited a new all you can eat resturant in taipei today...
It was near S.Y.S. memorial hall...
They had red and white wine...but all ready in glasses making it taste like vinegar...
Many kinds of fish...but a guy had to chop it up for u...however there were never any longer queue...
I also had fruit, and other kind of seafood...
And beer...it was 630nt...kind of much for a monday...
Later on i went by scooter in taipei...concluding that many traffic lights ppl have to wait for several minutes...leaving their scooters on...i wonder how many taipei who get asthma, or die in lung cancer...
Free trials at ikea
Ikea always let you try the food...in the store...
For ppl who never tried chocolate, biscuits etc...just like costco...it is nice...
Sunday nights food session...
A friend came by last night. we went to costco, however is costco card was out of date...so instead of buying juice...
I bought a hotdog and drank alot of coke...(costco coke taste wierd compare to bottled coke here in taiwan)...
In the nights the police are checking cars, always at the same places...to that the bad guys knows where to not drive...and so that the guys witht he assault rifles dont need to act...
I wonder when swedish police will dress up with rifles when checking cars...
Later I went to ximen, for a nice hotpot "all you can eat"...only 350nt...
They had popcorn, I had to eat some, since they are so nutritious...
The icecream was pretty hard...not easy for people to carve out pieces...
Else I went all in on fish, cornsticks...
And prawns as usual...
In the nights the police are checking cars, always at the same places...to that the bad guys knows where to not drive...and so that the guys witht he assault rifles dont need to act...
I wonder when swedish police will dress up with rifles when checking cars...
Later I went to ximen, for a nice hotpot "all you can eat"...only 350nt...
They had popcorn, I had to eat some, since they are so nutritious...
The icecream was pretty hard...not easy for people to carve out pieces...
Else I went all in on fish, cornsticks...
And prawns as usual...
They had coke in bottle...it was nice...high on caffein, I faced the sunday going to an end...
HIghest population density in the world...
I passed by an info sign when I went out running some day ago...
It says "The population density of Zhonghe and Yonghe (to areas south of taipei city)...is the highest in the..world"...omg so many ppl...
Its lantern festival...they also had some show along the river side last night...
A small trip to the city...
I went to taipei downtown...
To eat pizza at shida...
The waitress was smiling...I asked if she was taiwanese or not...since many waitresses here dont smile...she said she wasnt...just as I thought she was from vietnam...
I had a ful set of things...
And a hawaii pizza...that was pretty good...
I continued to nanjing eat road. where many people gathered...
And I helped a friend to buy things at ikea...
Wow...swing cap bottles...so nice...
Now I will go for a run...my new "old" lifestyle
Taipei hangout...on a saturday night...
I went to many places yesterday night...
Transporting by scooter...ina dense city...
I fear i might get lung cancer, sharing city with millions of otherscooter drivers...
The first destination was a burger bar near taipei 101...
I see that my friend Joel has been here selling swwedish stuff...
Both kopparbergs and Rekorderlig Cider...
They did not have any big burgers at this place...
I had a rekorderilig (it was as expensive as the burger)...
And a pineapple burger...
There was a sign on Taipei 101 say ing something about the lantern festival that is right now...
The next stop was El Cielo near S.Y.S memorial hall...
I found many nice all you can eat resturants near by there...
At El Cielo I met Robin who has a farewell party...
I met many swedes that I havnt met for a long itme there...
I use to hang out with Kristoffer...though...
I had a chocolate drink...it was ok...
We also got some snax if we bought drinks for more than 1000nt...
After this place a visit to Barhi was made again...
Its the Yilan beer bar in Beitou that also has pilsner...
Vincent the owner is a very nice guy...
They didnt have the pilsner yesterday, so I had a liter of wheat beer...
And if you "check in" on facebook at this place u get free french fries...
I also had a hawaii pizza, but it more looked like a pie...
I also passed by shilin night market where they had many lanterns...
And finally I dropped by Ximen, where I took an "all you can drink" offer for 500nt...but the drinks were not that good...
The bars here are very tight...and each of them plays their own music...on this pic speakers are shown (one to the left and one to the right) playing different music...
The next stop was El Cielo near S.Y.S memorial hall...
I found many nice all you can eat resturants near by there...
At El Cielo I met Robin who has a farewell party...
I met many swedes that I havnt met for a long itme there...
I use to hang out with Kristoffer...though...
I had a chocolate drink...it was ok...
We also got some snax if we bought drinks for more than 1000nt...
After this place a visit to Barhi was made again...
Its the Yilan beer bar in Beitou that also has pilsner...
Vincent the owner is a very nice guy...
They didnt have the pilsner yesterday, so I had a liter of wheat beer...
And if you "check in" on facebook at this place u get free french fries...
I also had a hawaii pizza, but it more looked like a pie...
I also passed by shilin night market where they had many lanterns...
And finally I dropped by Ximen, where I took an "all you can drink" offer for 500nt...but the drinks were not that good...
The bars here are very tight...and each of them plays their own music...on this pic speakers are shown (one to the left and one to the right) playing different music...
I planned to "do the list"...but the drinks were not that good...so I skipped some drinks...
Later on I went to carrefour to buy some things to do milkshake...february 2013 continues...
A quick visit to Hsinchu
I went to hsinchu last night...
For a birthday party, and I found a nice store to buy beer,,,
They even had Ble d´or beer...(but not hte honey flavour)...
The main reason why I went here was because I was told that they had a honey flavour beer...
I bought 7-8 different kind of beer, they covered each bottle with plastic material...
I also went to pizza hut, my friend said that they told us that the pizzaz were 10 inch each...I doubht that...
I had hawaii and some italian orange drink...
Later at my frineds place...I started with this beer...(all beer i boght were weissbeer or similar)...
And continued with this one...
And then this one (a bottle with swing cap)...
There were some caribeans at the palrty who told me to make a certain drink based on rum...
I also tried this beer...pretty light...
Eric was there...so funny...he came from taipei...
They even had Ble d´or beer...(but not hte honey flavour)...
The main reason why I went here was because I was told that they had a honey flavour beer...
I bought 7-8 different kind of beer, they covered each bottle with plastic material...
I also went to pizza hut, my friend said that they told us that the pizzaz were 10 inch each...I doubht that...
I had hawaii and some italian orange drink...
Later at my frineds place...I started with this beer...(all beer i boght were weissbeer or similar)...
And continued with this one...
And then this one (a bottle with swing cap)...
There were some caribeans at the palrty who told me to make a certain drink based on rum...
I also tried this beer...pretty light...
Eric was there...so funny...he came from taipei...
I als tried Amis (the aboriginal tribe) wine...
It was pretty sweet...
It was pretty sweet...
It was Julien, my old roommates birthday...
Many locals were there...
Many locals were there...
Niceview from his appartment...
Later I went to G star ( a quick visit)... in taipei...
Many people were there...
Saying hi to an old friend...friday went to an end...
Early saturday morning meeting...
I had a meeting at 9.30 this saturday...
It was a nice day...starting off by stepping in someones vomit in the elevator...(or what it was)...
Then I found road 9, passing by the presidents palace in central taipei...thats cool, the road I went on almost from kenting last week...(u always learn something new)...
A visit to Hsinchu
I went to hsinchu yesterday...
Had a meeting with some old friends...
At a restaurant in Hsinchu downtown...
Its one of these "try to imitate fancy italian/french dishes and service" resturant that is far to expensive...
I had pasta, my friends ordered some more brunch style food..
I had an egg in my food...
We later on went to the beerworks (beer place), that I never been to (there are 4-5 pf them in hsinchu,that sells hsinchu made beer)...
It was a little bit similar to the other beerwork that i have been to...
Kai was there...
I had some burgers...since i started to run regurlary recently, i feel that I need to eat alot...just like in the old days...
We went up at 10, to get to some wild hotsprings...(thats what they are calles here, hotsprings that u dont need to pay for)...
Anders drove the car...
We had GPS, but did barely need it...
Wow..."Dabajianshan"...the place i wanna go to almost "the most" right now in taiwan...
A far up 7-11...a taiwanese way to recognize civilization...
We had GPS, but did barely need it...
Wow..."Dabajianshan"...the place i wanna go to almost "the most" right now in taiwan...
A far up 7-11...a taiwanese way to recognize civilization...
Aboriginal pattern...so nice...
And a nice church, maybe not "top 10" but atleast "top 100" in taiwan...
There are many nice houses far up in the taiwanese moutains roads...
We also used a map that I downloaded, to get the directions of this "wild hotspring"...
It was a small road...
Steep down towards a river...
very steep...
And the road was not suitable for "normal city cars"...
Some big stones were found near the river bank...
A guy told us how to find the hotspring...
Wow...a country road car...perfect to find nice hotsprings in taiwan...
Wow...over there we found some people...
Someone had put up some tents...
And used concrete to make some pools...
Anders found a cave...
I found a bigger one...
Bubbles in the water...
It was around 35-28 degrees in the first pool...
There was some pipes that enabled fresh river water to enter...
3or 4 pools, where 1 was outside the "tent" area...
Ander also took a swim in the cold river...
He also took some cold water to make the hotspring more fresh...
Many bubbles...
Bojun went for a walk down hill...
This was really in a djungle...
Most hotsprings are near the river bank in this area...
Far up there, and further some 20-40km, is dabajian shan...
Anders took many pictures....
Then, after some hour, we went back to the car...
Wow...some waterfall at the other side of the valley...
And some broad river...in Hsinchu that looked like a river in yilan...
We later on went to Neiwan...
I wanted to eat wild boar meat...
YEp, wild boar "or mountain pig" as its called in chinese...
They are not as big as in sweden...
I also found amilk store, from Ruishui, which i visited last week at the east coast...
They had a museum for "interesting things"...
I bought an icecream asn some liter of milk...
And went to eat some noodles...
As usual I was watcomng the maps on the wall for a long while...looking for interesting places...
Wow, nice mountains that I want to climb...
And a huge toad...
I thought this was a muffin, but it turned out to be some slime thing...
They had alot of fire crackers left since chinese new year...
Later on i took the bus to Taipei. and found a guy with both Fjällräven bag and ikea bag...thats impressive...
I went to a resturant in ximen later on...to another "italian/french" wannabee resturant...
And a nice church, maybe not "top 10" but atleast "top 100" in taiwan...
There are many nice houses far up in the taiwanese moutains roads...
We also used a map that I downloaded, to get the directions of this "wild hotspring"...
It was a small road...
And a bad road, with many warning signs...
We were told to "Follow the main road" to get ther...but many times the road split into two...and both looked like "tha main road":..
We were told to "Follow the main road" to get ther...but many times the road split into two...and both looked like "tha main road":..
But after a while the descriptin matched with reality...and we chosed to walk the last bit...
Steep down towards a river...
very steep...
And the road was not suitable for "normal city cars"...
Some big stones were found near the river bank...
A guy told us how to find the hotspring...
Wow...a country road car...perfect to find nice hotsprings in taiwan...
Wow...over there we found some people...
Someone had put up some tents...
And used concrete to make some pools...
Anders found a cave...
I found a bigger one...
Bubbles in the water...
It was around 35-28 degrees in the first pool...
There was some pipes that enabled fresh river water to enter...
3or 4 pools, where 1 was outside the "tent" area...
Ander also took a swim in the cold river...
He also took some cold water to make the hotspring more fresh...
Many bubbles...
Bojun went for a walk down hill...
This was really in a djungle...
Most hotsprings are near the river bank in this area...
Far up there, and further some 20-40km, is dabajian shan...
Anders took many pictures....
Then, after some hour, we went back to the car...
Wow...some waterfall at the other side of the valley...
And some broad river...in Hsinchu that looked like a river in yilan...
We later on went to Neiwan...
I wanted to eat wild boar meat...
YEp, wild boar "or mountain pig" as its called in chinese...
They are not as big as in sweden...
I also found amilk store, from Ruishui, which i visited last week at the east coast...
They had a museum for "interesting things"...
I bought an icecream asn some liter of milk...
And went to eat some noodles...
As usual I was watcomng the maps on the wall for a long while...looking for interesting places...
Wow, nice mountains that I want to climb...
And a huge toad...
I thought this was a muffin, but it turned out to be some slime thing...
They had alot of fire crackers left since chinese new year...
Later on i took the bus to Taipei. and found a guy with both Fjällräven bag and ikea bag...thats impressive...
I went to a resturant in ximen later on...to another "italian/french" wannabee resturant...
And had pasta...
And milk tea...
And milk tea...
Later on I passed by the red house district for a kiwi tea...but it was more like an acid drink...february 2013 continues...
Applying for a mountain permit...
I want to climb a mountain called Dabajianshan, in taiwan...
So complicated and tourble some to apply for a permit...
Many countries that wants tourists, makes it easy for them to come there...(like on the border visa etc)...
Taiwan says the encourrage ppl to climb mountains...but the logic of having "at the border" applications does not exist...so rigid...I need to enter a homepage some weeks in advance, and check where to go...
Tuesday evening...
I tried a new burger bar today...
The staff were a little rude in the beginning...
I had their 3 patty burger...
They had hockey on the TV...
And nice candies at the desk...
Alot of chocolate...
LAter a visit to coldstone was made...
I bought peanut butter ice cream...as usual...
And after that I went to Brass monkey...
This night there was some salsa activity...
I had a San miguel...
More and more people joined the salsa activity...
They also have a rugby team...
Taiwan attracts latino countries...no wonder there were many people dancing...(after a while)...
And the white guys sat and drank beer...watching Madrid- Mancheser United...
Fumes in taiwan
MIllions of scooters in a very dense place...
And many scooters have no filter of any kind...of one take a picture of a polluting scooter and send to some agency, with time and place...you can earn money...
A visit to the immigration office...
I made a quick visit to the immigration office today...
Its always entertaining...
Drinking my expensive Taiwanese coffee
Im drinking my taiwanese coffee nowadays...it taste almost the same as ikea coffee...(i think both are arabica beans)...
The reason why it was expensive was becasue when a typhoon comes, it destoys many coffee bushes...(I was told)...
I also found a homepage with all the wild hotsprings in taiwan (atleast 40-50 of them)...I really love wild hotsprings, since they are natural and free...but most often you have to walk for a while...I guess the reason they remained wild, is becasue they are to far away for any person to make a "spa" out of it...
A visit to the trade council...
I paid a short visit to the trade council today...
It was a meeting regarding windpower plants...which was one of my expert areas 5-10 years ago...
I was served coffee bought in sweden...so exclusive...
We saw some new designs of windpower towers...
Today I saw many activites on the streets of taipei...people dancing and making noise...
Omg...they stopped selling Aladdin at ikea...I wonder what they did with all those boxes...
They are using alot of fire crackers today...on the streets...never ending...
I also made it to the post office...had some letters to send...
A visit to Cosbys Taipei
I went to see a friend at Ximen last night...
We met at Cosbys Taipei...my favorite burger bar...
Maybe first time I had a single burger...
Millers is a nice beer...
We also headed to the Bear Bar...
Later on I passed by Carrefour, and I saw Ruishui milk, the farm i visited on the east coast...not sure if the milk is from that farm though...
Omg, Kiwis are 89nt for 10 peices...thats more expensive than in Taidong...strange since Taidong is much further away...and more isolated...(i assume the kiwis are not local)...
Swedish summer weather in taipei
It is swedish summer weather in taipei...
I went for some hours run along the river side, and many people were out walking and biking...
A perfect day for BarBQ...to bad ppl are all split up these days...hard to gather...
Back in tpe
I just came back to Taipei...
In taidong
The following night was spent at Johnnys house...in taidong...
He had Ikea things in the room...
And he insisted of driving the car...omg...
And we went downtown...to some stores...
And played at an arcade...
The games ended pretty soon...
This fighting game was fun...
Wow...a famous place...it must b good...(tai logic)...
A tree house in central taidong...
And some art...
This house is super central...I was told that the restaurant is not that good...
"An introduction to logic..."
Nice interior design in the house...
This is interesting, the closest Mcdonalds is to the right, but they promote a more remote one...for some reason...
We also headed a bit up on the hill that we skipped last time...
Just some temples...
And old people playing karaoke...
We continued to eat lunch...and parked tha car near this nice house...
Sams burger, the resturant thats open in theory 11-22 but in reality at lunch, and after 17-18...
Some blackboard paintings...
"sams f**kin hungry now"...seems bug...i will have that...
It was pretty big..
Later on we went to johnnys again and ate some local fruit...(the one i bought last time)...
Its a very local fruit...
There after we went to a hot spring...
We could cook our eggs there...
It was not that big...and not that structures in the sense of temperatures...(200nt)...
Rain was approaching, so the trip continued north...
A police controling the traffic lights...
Omg, a bike kit at 7-11 so professional...
Road 9 seems nicer thatn road 11 on the east coast...both has plenty of 7-11 stores...
I saw some fireworks later on that night...
Ath this elementary school, where I slept...
They had english translations of almost everything there...
In guanxi they hace a famous bike way...
Omg, road 20, I was very close to climg jiaming moutain, to go to jiaming lake...but ppl said it might be hard, due to the weather...(i planned to do it over the day, since I know some people who has done that)...
It goes cross the island, to road 3 where I went yesterday...
I went a while on road 20...and passed a Bunun museum...to bad that it was closed...
I wanna learn more about aboriginal culture...
This is as far as it gets...almost...
There were many statues like this, here at the road 9 valley...
A sign saying that the raod is closed after some 500k or something...
These "hand in hand" paintingis are very common in taiwan, it seems to be a symbol of aboriginals (as well as the diamond shaped pattern)...
Here goes road 20, I hope to be back soon, and climb some moutains here...
Most roads in the mountains follows a river...
Some aboriginal photos...
Ath this elementary school, where I slept...
They had english translations of almost everything there...
In guanxi they hace a famous bike way...
Omg, road 20, I was very close to climg jiaming moutain, to go to jiaming lake...but ppl said it might be hard, due to the weather...(i planned to do it over the day, since I know some people who has done that)...
It goes cross the island, to road 3 where I went yesterday...
I went a while on road 20...and passed a Bunun museum...to bad that it was closed...
I wanna learn more about aboriginal culture...
This is as far as it gets...almost...
There were many statues like this, here at the road 9 valley...
A sign saying that the raod is closed after some 500k or something...
These "hand in hand" paintingis are very common in taiwan, it seems to be a symbol of aboriginals (as well as the diamond shaped pattern)...
Here goes road 20, I hope to be back soon, and climb some moutains here...
Most roads in the mountains follows a river...
Some aboriginal photos...
More paintings...
Bad weather...
I had breakfast in Yuli...some toast...
And "brownish" milk...
It was said to be 100%...
Omg...seeing this at home, one would think it was something bad...here in asia this (most often inverted) symbol has a positive meaning...
A new railroad is beeing built...
Omg..."warning for birds" thats rare...I never seen that at home...
I also passed by a coffee plantage...
A japanese guy cane here some centory ago and made these plantages...
They had many products...
Bad weather...
I had breakfast in Yuli...some toast...
And "brownish" milk...
It was said to be 100%...
Omg...seeing this at home, one would think it was something bad...here in asia this (most often inverted) symbol has a positive meaning...
A new railroad is beeing built...
Omg..."warning for birds" thats rare...I never seen that at home...
I also passed by a coffee plantage...
A japanese guy cane here some centory ago and made these plantages...
They had many products...
And equipment...
ALot of coffee trees...
Like this one...
With the red coffee bean...we were told that we could eat them (the visitors were guided)...
Hmm...I brought some beans home...to plant...
Some beans were brown and dry...
They also had facilities to camp...
We also got some tea and coffe wjhile there...
They had many products...
The coffee I liked...
I bought this...it was pretty expensive 1000nt for a small package...they had one for 600nt, with another bean....but i prefer arabica...and i like to support locally produced items...
Omg, the tropical of cancer...
They had many sites to visit on the east reef valley...
And the road I wanted to go on...
Next stop was Ruishui milk farm...
SImilar to the one I visited when I did my ironman in taidong 2 years ago...but this was bigger, since they sell their milk at 7-11...
I bought some pudding, ice cream and milk...
Local produced they said...but they only had 300 cows here, I doubt that this is their only faciility, since they are selling their milk at the 6000 7-11 that exists in taiwan...
They also had ostrich...
And a few cows for visitors to feed...
Many kids were here...
"land of milk, tea and ot springs"...
And places to camp...
Nice houst...looks empty but the roof is the same as home...
Aboriginal pattern...
I was taking road 193 to an aboriginal museum that was open (i was told)...
ALot of coffee trees...
Like this one...
With the red coffee bean...we were told that we could eat them (the visitors were guided)...
Hmm...I brought some beans home...to plant...
Some beans were brown and dry...
They also had facilities to camp...
We also got some tea and coffe wjhile there...
They had many products...
The coffee I liked...
I bought this...it was pretty expensive 1000nt for a small package...they had one for 600nt, with another bean....but i prefer arabica...and i like to support locally produced items...
Omg, the tropical of cancer...
They had many sites to visit on the east reef valley...
And the road I wanted to go on...
Next stop was Ruishui milk farm...
SImilar to the one I visited when I did my ironman in taidong 2 years ago...but this was bigger, since they sell their milk at 7-11...
I bought some pudding, ice cream and milk...
Local produced they said...but they only had 300 cows here, I doubt that this is their only faciility, since they are selling their milk at the 6000 7-11 that exists in taiwan...
They also had ostrich...
And a few cows for visitors to feed...
Many kids were here...
"land of milk, tea and ot springs"...
And places to camp...
Nice houst...looks empty but the roof is the same as home...
Aboriginal pattern...
I was taking road 193 to an aboriginal museum that was open (i was told)...
This place...
Cool pattern...
It was the Amis tribe...
I want to know more about the smaller tribes...Amis and Paiwan seems so big...
They had colourful clothes...
And nice necklace...
And totam pole...
The eat rift vally, super nice...
Sttep hills...
A meeting point for aboriginals...
Next stop was a real lake near hualien...
I seen pictures of this lake on internet but I did know it was here...
I was told it was famous, but hard to get to , sincethe east coast is kind of isolated...
Liyu lake...
Many people were renting out swan boats...
They also had some wetlands...
Some people were also fishing...
And some hotels...ofcourse...
Cool pattern...
It was the Amis tribe...
I want to know more about the smaller tribes...Amis and Paiwan seems so big...
They had colourful clothes...
And nice necklace...
And totam pole...
The eat rift vally, super nice...
Sttep hills...
A meeting point for aboriginals...
Next stop was a real lake near hualien...
I seen pictures of this lake on internet but I did know it was here...
I was told it was famous, but hard to get to , sincethe east coast is kind of isolated...
Liyu lake...
Many people were renting out swan boats...
They also had some wetlands...
Some people were also fishing...
And some hotels...ofcourse...
In hualien I went to an "allyoucaneat" buffet at pizza hut...
It was lantern festival as well so there were alot of lights...
In Jiaoxi, I went to my favorite yilan beer bar...they also have a free piblic hotspring...
Yilan beer...
And the dance floor...where old people dance...
once barley and one wheat beer...
In Jiaoxi, I went to my favorite yilan beer bar...they also have a free piblic hotspring...
Yilan beer...
And the dance floor...where old people dance...
once barley and one wheat beer...
More people at the hotspring...they sit and dip ther feet into the water...
Later road 9 was taken towards taipei...it was nice, a view of yilan by night...
in pingdong
I went for a hike around taiwan this week (the light version)...
Starting from Taipei and heading south on the moutian roads...
"tai 3 xian"...(road number 3...
nice fontain at a gas station...
Continuing on road 7 towards yilans mountain...
Strange roundabout with traffic lights...isnt roundabouts a substitute for traffic lights...?
Nice view...I see a lake down there some where...must be tha dame near fuxing...
Mountains showing up...civered with clouds...
Pink bridges...it feels like the alps once in a while...
Buddhist flags...
Another dame...
A dry river...
Road 7 (main road)...many of these roads brake pretty easy...
There are houses far way there...its always so impressive that people lives here in the middle of nowhere...
Smoke on the moutain...maybe a hidden hotspring...
Aboriginal pattern...I find these "diamond shapes" all over the country...
"yilan", I went here with my classmates last year heading to Xueshan (second higest mountain in taiwan)...
The atmosphere here is almost like in sweden...
But the roads are more narrow (and taiwanese moutinas are one of the steepest in the world I was told)...
Cherry blossom (the red flowers)...
Raining (near yilan, as usual)...
An old train...
Locomotive...I like...
Near Tuchang...
Its a pity...its 25 km to the trail start...sun is setting and then waits another 10km to the biggest mountina lae in taiwan...(no camping allowed)...I have to do it another time...
The trip continues south up hills...
A place where the bus to Lishan us to stop (that has no conveinient stores)...but some restaurant and local stores with paintings on how houses use to look like in taiwan...
There are many things to do in yilan county...
I got beef noodles...
Its chinese new year, so many people (rather: all of them)...have vacation, and are taking trips...many buses heading to the mountains...
I was recommended to go to Lishan, in the mountains by the head of chamber of commerce...its like scandinavian atmosphere...I guess its on of the higest villages in taiwan...
Why do they have a weight in the store entrance?
Starting from Taipei and heading south on the moutian roads...
"tai 3 xian"...(road number 3...
nice fontain at a gas station...
Continuing on road 7 towards yilans mountain...
Strange roundabout with traffic lights...isnt roundabouts a substitute for traffic lights...?
Nice view...I see a lake down there some where...must be tha dame near fuxing...
Mountains showing up...civered with clouds...
Pink bridges...it feels like the alps once in a while...
Buddhist flags...
Another dame...
A dry river...
Road 7 (main road)...many of these roads brake pretty easy...
There are houses far way there...its always so impressive that people lives here in the middle of nowhere...
Smoke on the moutain...maybe a hidden hotspring...
Aboriginal pattern...I find these "diamond shapes" all over the country...
"yilan", I went here with my classmates last year heading to Xueshan (second higest mountain in taiwan)...
The atmosphere here is almost like in sweden...
But the roads are more narrow (and taiwanese moutinas are one of the steepest in the world I was told)...
Cherry blossom (the red flowers)...
Raining (near yilan, as usual)...
An old train...
Locomotive...I like...
Near Tuchang...
Its a pity...its 25 km to the trail start...sun is setting and then waits another 10km to the biggest mountina lae in taiwan...(no camping allowed)...I have to do it another time...
The trip continues south up hills...
A place where the bus to Lishan us to stop (that has no conveinient stores)...but some restaurant and local stores with paintings on how houses use to look like in taiwan...
There are many things to do in yilan county...
I got beef noodles...
Its chinese new year, so many people (rather: all of them)...have vacation, and are taking trips...many buses heading to the mountains...
I was recommended to go to Lishan, in the mountains by the head of chamber of commerce...its like scandinavian atmosphere...I guess its on of the higest villages in taiwan...
Why do they have a weight in the store entrance?
I was looking for an elemantary school, since there u can camp without problem...(people say)...
I there after went to get some food in lishan...many people ate at the "Only place open"...
Some meat screwers...
They also had ginger tea at some other place...
It was maybe 10-15 degrees outside...
The elemantary school was pretty new....even the toilet was barely used...
Next day the weather was nice...
I love pretty chirches in mountain areas...taiwan has some, since the aboriginals are mostly christians...
And many europeans went here (also some ppl from korea etc) to spread the bible message...
Wow...maybe its nanhu mountain...
And there is Hehuanshan, some where...a moutain i climed some years ago...
Nice stairs...I wanna have a house here...in these pitoresque lishan blocks...
On of the only stores open in the morning to sell breakfast...
The guy here, seems to own most big places in lishan, he has a wool sweater...
The higest gamler store in taiwan can be found here...
Omg, a new character...(the one to the left)...means palm tree I was told...
Another nice church...
Some meat screwers...
They also had ginger tea at some other place...
It was maybe 10-15 degrees outside...
The elemantary school was pretty new....even the toilet was barely used...
Next day the weather was nice...
I love pretty chirches in mountain areas...taiwan has some, since the aboriginals are mostly christians...
And many europeans went here (also some ppl from korea etc) to spread the bible message...
Wow...maybe its nanhu mountain...
And there is Hehuanshan, some where...a moutain i climed some years ago...
Nice stairs...I wanna have a house here...in these pitoresque lishan blocks...
On of the only stores open in the morning to sell breakfast...
The guy here, seems to own most big places in lishan, he has a wool sweater...
The higest gamler store in taiwan can be found here...
Omg, a new character...(the one to the left)...means palm tree I was told...
Another nice church...
Xueshan ridge...
Steep moutains roads...leading west...
The weather is often sunny in the morning up here...
Steep moutains roads...leading west...
The weather is often sunny in the morning up here...
I want to see Dabajian shan, a cool mountain in Hsinchu county...but I cannot see it...
Here is hehuanshan, its where im currently am heading...
There are many police stations up here...
Wow, nice cabin, I wonder how much it costs to buy that one...
Wow, nice cabin, I wonder how much it costs to buy that one...
Road 8 meets up road 7 after a while...
Passing a tunnel on the highest road in taiwan...
The "dark moutain"...
Road 14 meets up road 8...leading east to hualien or west to nantou...(on of the few moutain roads that are crossing taiwan (think there are 2-3 thats not broken)...
I camped at this parkin lot 2 years ago with NCTUs moutains climbing club...
Now Im heading to hehuan shan...
No trees grows there...im at 3000m above sea level now...
Many tai ppl are coming here during vacation to see the view...since cars can drive up here...
The traffic is chaotic...
The top of hehuanshan (centra peak)...3416meters high...
There is my favorite moutain...the pyramid moutains...no snow on any top...there are truly many rumors here...I was told there was alot of snow up here this week...
And xueshan...
And Hsinchu county...
I went on this road up...many houses and hotels up here...
The road continues west...
Nice moutain house...
The houses here looks like home...no "container architecture" like in the taiwanese cities...
Wow...Absolute vodka was found...in the the closest 7-11...
Many people came here...thay had a lady with a mic at the entrance...
And the micro waves at a separate corner of the store...
People say this area is famous due to a sheep farm...(think i visited that 2 yearsa ago when I swam cross sunmoonlake)...
The highest 7-11 in taiwan...
9 people working here...is that efficient...?
7 behind the desk, the lady with the mic and the guy at the oven...
More nice houses (pic was taken while making speed)...
Another nice house...
Cherry blossom...
I wonder why taipei dont have these nice houses (atleast I cant find them)...
the "sheep farm"...very toursitic...
Many cars here...
And maybe 10-20km of queue uphill...
the queues never ended...25million people with vacation at the same time...
But the air was fresh...
I been here 2-3 times before...its nice...
More non taiwanese roofs...
Passing a tunnel on the highest road in taiwan...
The "dark moutain"...
Road 14 meets up road 8...leading east to hualien or west to nantou...(on of the few moutain roads that are crossing taiwan (think there are 2-3 thats not broken)...
I camped at this parkin lot 2 years ago with NCTUs moutains climbing club...
Now Im heading to hehuan shan...
No trees grows there...im at 3000m above sea level now...
Many tai ppl are coming here during vacation to see the view...since cars can drive up here...
The traffic is chaotic...
The top of hehuanshan (centra peak)...3416meters high...
There is my favorite moutain...the pyramid moutains...no snow on any top...there are truly many rumors here...I was told there was alot of snow up here this week...
And xueshan...
And Hsinchu county...
I went on this road up...many houses and hotels up here...
The road continues west...
Nice moutain house...
The houses here looks like home...no "container architecture" like in the taiwanese cities...
Wow...Absolute vodka was found...in the the closest 7-11...
Many people came here...thay had a lady with a mic at the entrance...
And the micro waves at a separate corner of the store...
People say this area is famous due to a sheep farm...(think i visited that 2 yearsa ago when I swam cross sunmoonlake)...
The highest 7-11 in taiwan...
9 people working here...is that efficient...?
7 behind the desk, the lady with the mic and the guy at the oven...
More nice houses (pic was taken while making speed)...
Another nice house...
Cherry blossom...
I wonder why taipei dont have these nice houses (atleast I cant find them)...
the "sheep farm"...very toursitic...
Many cars here...
And maybe 10-20km of queue uphill...
the queues never ended...25million people with vacation at the same time...
But the air was fresh...
I been here 2-3 times before...its nice...
More non taiwanese roofs...
A nice yellow house...
A nice church top...
More houses...
Another church...
A nice church top...
More houses...
Another church...
And more churches...
Hours of queuing up hill...
A seediq aboriginal resturant...sweet...
And Bitan, my favrite lake...
seen it many times before...but its hard to get to...
I was told its a dame thats not "real"...
Well...I wanna see it closer...
After 10-20 mintues(to the other side of the dame)...I reached the bank...
Some boats, and float bridges...no people...
They could have nice swimming competitions here...
The churches and houses I just passed are up on the hill...
More traffic...
Hours of queuing up hill...
A seediq aboriginal resturant...sweet...
And Bitan, my favrite lake...
seen it many times before...but its hard to get to...
I was told its a dame thats not "real"...
Well...I wanna see it closer...
After 10-20 mintues(to the other side of the dame)...I reached the bank...
Some boats, and float bridges...no people...
They could have nice swimming competitions here...
The churches and houses I just passed are up on the hill...
More cherry blossom...
Its fun, these yellom reflectors on thecrash barriers...makes vecicles sound funny...the sound reflects differently...
Now heading to next lake...to road 151...how do I find that one?...
Funny jacket...with the "7-11" logo on it...I will look like a staff if i wear that in a store...
Have to pass sunmoonlake to get to road 151...andmore traffic...
Taiwanese hollidays...
Its fun, these yellom reflectors on thecrash barriers...makes vecicles sound funny...the sound reflects differently...
Now heading to next lake...to road 151...how do I find that one?...
Funny jacket...with the "7-11" logo on it...I will look like a staff if i wear that in a store...
Have to pass sunmoonlake to get to road 151...andmore traffic...
Taiwanese hollidays...
Some people now wearing helmet (its like beeing on the east coast or south of taiwan, where helmet is more a recommendation or decoration)...
And a "fjällräven" bag...they are getting more popular here...
Road 21 to sun moon lake...road 21 crosses the island from middle to south...
The cars were still...
The cars were still...
Wow, sun moon lake...
A police man trying to arrange the traffic...
FUnny bulding, is that typhoon proof?so high and thin...
Nice bike path going around the lake...
A ridge that separates the lake from the farms to the right (the lake was created when japanese people occupied taiwan)...
Very touristic here as well...
Nice bike path going around the lake...
A ridge that separates the lake from the farms to the right (the lake was created when japanese people occupied taiwan)...
A marathon will go around the lake soon...
"666"
It was less traffic on the south part of the lake...
Taking road 131 up to some mountain village...
More traffic...
Changing to raod 151...towards an old "forrest park":..
never ending... queues...
Here...some 1000-2000 meter up some one had an arcade...
15 degrees...its warm for being home...
An "all you can eat" meal was waiting, only 300nt (70SEK)
The food was soso.
People drive car up here...and take a walk between the houses to say they been on a hike...
I was heading to a lake that was created by an earthquake...but I prefered to hike near the lights...
And no vehicles allowed near the path, so I had to walk 2km, or wait for a but that leaves in 1 hour...
Locals tolb me it would take 6-7hours to walk there...(to the lake)...
They had ceom nice flowers in the area...
The path was pretty small and steep...
I had to climb ladders some times...
It was very bad infromation, only in chinese some times...and some ribbons of different colours leading to different places...
Nice shape of the mountain...
Hmm, where to go...I got the characted of the destimation...both ways are leading to the destination...
I pickes a steep path, hoping it will be faster...I had to be back at the hotel area before it gets dark...
Nice view...
Omg, a rest place on the top of a mountain...
But chinese information, and to ways to go...hmm, I walked back and forth, trygin to figure out whree to go...
I picked the road to the left...it seemed like more people walked this way...
I also meet some random people who said it was this way (i hope they are right)...
Yep, more ribbons...
Nice forrest, I felt like home for a while...
Omg, the path just ended...where to go...
its a small path heading into the high grass...but barely anyone walked there before...
Hmm...after 10 minutes looking, I found a had written sigh, saying "walk left"...
Omg, a house in the middle of nowhere, who carried these stones here (maybe 2-3 hours walk for normal people, in steep terrain)...
And later on I found another house...
It turned out that the first house was a temple...and this was a hosue for workers, in the area, long time ago...
It seemd pretty nice...
The path became better after a while, I turned out that when the "other" road met up wuth my "fast and steep" path, it was easier to walk...
And some roads were closed...
Not sure where to go...I take right...
Steep hills...
More signs...hmm copnfusing...I sked everyone I met (3-4 people If i was on the right path)...I hope they were right...
Wow...after 3 hours i came to the lake...good, then I have plenty of time, to contines to destination number 2...a cave...
Many people camped at the lake...
Some foreingers....I asked how to walk to the cave...and they gave me directions...
This was a normal forrest 10 years ago...(something)...then suddenly the earthquake created this lake...
I had to walk alon the lake to get to the cave...
And I met more foreinger who were heading to the same direction, they camped at the lake for some days...(all american english teachers, as it seemed)...
"666"
It was less traffic on the south part of the lake...
Taking road 131 up to some mountain village...
More traffic...
Changing to raod 151...towards an old "forrest park":..
never ending... queues...
Here...some 1000-2000 meter up some one had an arcade...
15 degrees...its warm for being home...
An "all you can eat" meal was waiting, only 300nt (70SEK)
The food was soso.
People drive car up here...and take a walk between the houses to say they been on a hike...
I was heading to a lake that was created by an earthquake...but I prefered to hike near the lights...
And no vehicles allowed near the path, so I had to walk 2km, or wait for a but that leaves in 1 hour...
Locals tolb me it would take 6-7hours to walk there...(to the lake)...
They had ceom nice flowers in the area...
The path was pretty small and steep...
I had to climb ladders some times...
It was very bad infromation, only in chinese some times...and some ribbons of different colours leading to different places...
Nice shape of the mountain...
Hmm, where to go...I got the characted of the destimation...both ways are leading to the destination...
I pickes a steep path, hoping it will be faster...I had to be back at the hotel area before it gets dark...
Nice view...
Omg, a rest place on the top of a mountain...
But chinese information, and to ways to go...hmm, I walked back and forth, trygin to figure out whree to go...
I picked the road to the left...it seemed like more people walked this way...
I also meet some random people who said it was this way (i hope they are right)...
Yep, more ribbons...
Nice forrest, I felt like home for a while...
Omg, the path just ended...where to go...
its a small path heading into the high grass...but barely anyone walked there before...
Hmm...after 10 minutes looking, I found a had written sigh, saying "walk left"...
Omg, a house in the middle of nowhere, who carried these stones here (maybe 2-3 hours walk for normal people, in steep terrain)...
And later on I found another house...
It turned out that the first house was a temple...and this was a hosue for workers, in the area, long time ago...
It seemd pretty nice...
The path became better after a while, I turned out that when the "other" road met up wuth my "fast and steep" path, it was easier to walk...
And some roads were closed...
Not sure where to go...I take right...
Steep hills...
More signs...hmm copnfusing...I sked everyone I met (3-4 people If i was on the right path)...I hope they were right...
Wow...after 3 hours i came to the lake...good, then I have plenty of time, to contines to destination number 2...a cave...
Many people camped at the lake...
Some foreingers....I asked how to walk to the cave...and they gave me directions...
This was a normal forrest 10 years ago...(something)...then suddenly the earthquake created this lake...
I had to walk alon the lake to get to the cave...
And I met more foreinger who were heading to the same direction, they camped at the lake for some days...(all american english teachers, as it seemed)...
The lake was big...
And here the lake goes down, a small creek...I would have been disapointed if it was a stone blocking the creek, but it seem like the earth was pushed up...
A flying lantern had landed on a tree in the middle of nowhere...thats cool...
The path was leading to a dry river...
I had to walk on stones for a while...
I was on the right way (i recognized these character)...
The cave...not as impresive as the lake...
A sign that it was the thousan people cave...
Some people campes here before...
And potts gathered dripping water...
It would be nice to stay here...or continue on the path (That accutlaly leads to alishan)...
11.09, it took me about 4 hours from the hotel area to the cave...
I headed back, n time to waste...seeing nice shaped cliffs on my way back...
After another hours I came back to the lake...
A guy called Tyler said I could use his water filter to refill my water bottle...
Many old taiwanese people were at the camp...
And an american who ben to taiwan only for 2 weeks...and will study chinese for a year while teaching english...
And here the lake goes down, a small creek...I would have been disapointed if it was a stone blocking the creek, but it seem like the earth was pushed up...
A flying lantern had landed on a tree in the middle of nowhere...thats cool...
The path was leading to a dry river...
I had to walk on stones for a while...
I was on the right way (i recognized these character)...
The cave...not as impresive as the lake...
A sign that it was the thousan people cave...
Some people campes here before...
And potts gathered dripping water...
It would be nice to stay here...or continue on the path (That accutlaly leads to alishan)...
11.09, it took me about 4 hours from the hotel area to the cave...
I headed back, n time to waste...seeing nice shaped cliffs on my way back...
After another hours I came back to the lake...
A guy called Tyler said I could use his water filter to refill my water bottle...
Many old taiwanese people were at the camp...
And an american who ben to taiwan only for 2 weeks...and will study chinese for a year while teaching english...
Johan, high on caffein, convinced he can do any hike in taiwan in less than 6-8 hours...
Omg, a Mcdonalds "M" on the ground...can u find it?
I carried my friend luggage back to the hotel area...and we picked an easier way (but longer) back...
Strange sign...the information was facing the forrest, not tha path...
It was showing the distance (finally), so far, no distance was displayed...
But stupid enough itwas not readable for people walking on the path...
Starnge...
The new path was steep in the begining...
But later it was very easy...(2050 meter high)...
Some old map...
This I could run...no wonder so many kids come here...
More chinese maps...
And a hut, for slow hikers...(or who just enjoy spending their time in the rural area)...
And some old, shit house...
I met a guy from Changhua with orange beard...wierd...
A nice water fall...but it was dry...
Wow...here tha cars can drive up....for lazy walkers...
pretty fresh...mabye the people i passed by on my woy down took the car...
It started to rain when I arrived to the hotel area (a little)...
cloudy skies...
And back to the forrest park...
Dinner was eaten at a "famous" place near nantou...chicken place...
It was ok...
They had the soap in a web, that was clever...the it wont be dropped....
Later a visit to exther was made...she is nice...
She has many white vehicles at her house...
We ate breakfast at a shark place...
I had a strawberry pancake thing...
With coffee...
Omg, a Mcdonalds "M" on the ground...can u find it?
I carried my friend luggage back to the hotel area...and we picked an easier way (but longer) back...
Strange sign...the information was facing the forrest, not tha path...
It was showing the distance (finally), so far, no distance was displayed...
But stupid enough itwas not readable for people walking on the path...
Starnge...
The new path was steep in the begining...
But later it was very easy...(2050 meter high)...
Some old map...
This I could run...no wonder so many kids come here...
More chinese maps...
And a hut, for slow hikers...(or who just enjoy spending their time in the rural area)...
And some old, shit house...
I met a guy from Changhua with orange beard...wierd...
A nice water fall...but it was dry...
Wow...here tha cars can drive up....for lazy walkers...
pretty fresh...mabye the people i passed by on my woy down took the car...
It started to rain when I arrived to the hotel area (a little)...
cloudy skies...
And back to the forrest park...
Dinner was eaten at a "famous" place near nantou...chicken place...
It was ok...
They had the soap in a web, that was clever...the it wont be dropped....
Later a visit to exther was made...she is nice...
She has many white vehicles at her house...
We ate breakfast at a shark place...
I had a strawberry pancake thing...
With coffee...
Heading south from nantou on road 3...passing many hills...and binlang trees...
They never seemed to end...
Road 3, the same I started on, in taipei...
Nice view...
A car was delvering binlang or something...
MIssing kids were announced at a local gas station...
Omg...up here, its rare with gas stations...
Another moutain lake...
They never seemed to end...
Road 3, the same I started on, in taipei...
Nice view...
A car was delvering binlang or something...
MIssing kids were announced at a local gas station...
Omg...up here, its rare with gas stations...
Another moutain lake...
Raod 20...its broken...else I would take it, it leads to the east coast...and a place I wanna hike...instead I was heading south, almost to the very south of taiwan to be able to cross the island...
This lady in pingdong was amazing, she acctually knew were to find "allyoucan eat" resturants...and she also knew how to go there...
Omg,,,199nt for all you can eat meat, (50SEK)...
This lady in pingdong was amazing, she acctually knew were to find "allyoucan eat" resturants...and she also knew how to go there...
Omg,,,199nt for all you can eat meat, (50SEK)...