January 8, 2024 - Liuchiu Island to Kaohsiung - 60 kms - Legend Hotel January 9, 2024 - day walk in Kaohsiung Gordon: We skipped Kaohsiung on our first pass down the west coast, but on our return arc we are spending a couple of nights. The approach to the...
January 5, 2024 - Anshu - Donggang - 75 kms - Taipeng Bay Tourist Hotel January 6, 2024 - Donggang - Liuchiu Island - 5kms - Coral Island January 7, 2024 - Liuchiu - 8kms - Coral Island. Taiwan was originally named Ilha Formosa (Beautiful Island) by...
January 3, 2024 - Chenggong - Taitung - 66kms - Home Rest Hotel January 4, 2024 - Taichung - Anshuo - 66kms - Lao Fan Home Most afternoons Gord and I do as the Taiwanese do and stop for a bubble tea. Ordering it, however, is more challenging than ordering...
Happy New Year! The New Year arrived a day earlier than at home, which is always a fun mind bender. The beautiful east coast was packed with tourists taking advantage of a long weekend. We were warned ahead of time that...
December 29, 2023 - Checheng to (Anshuo Tribe)Daren - 53 kms - Lao Fan Home December 30, 2023 - Daren to Taitung - 65 kms - Home Rest Hotel Gordon: Yesterday we had an excellent ride from the west to the east coast on Highway 199. After climbing a...
When we first arrived in Taipei the traffic on the roads seemed terrifying. So many scooters pouring through intersections like a waterfall. I was so relieved that we had a beautiful bike path to cycle out of the city on. At that point I was pretty...
December 25, 2023 - Liuqiu Island - Checheng - Hotel with Chinese Name - 65 kms December 26, 2023 - Checheng - Eluanbi - Kenting Sands Hostel - 47 kms December 27, 2023 - Eluanbi - Kenting Sands Hostel - Day ride to Kenting Forest Recreation Area - 19 kms...
If I posted this on Facebook it would truly be shameless travel bragging, worse than our usual level of rubbing our best moments in everyone’s faces, but we were just snorkelling with sea turtles! Green sea turtles to be exact. Taiwan is home to five of the...
December 20, 2023 - Tainan - Meinong - 62kms - Mei Nong Villa December 21, 2023 - Ride around the countryside near Meinong - 52 kms - Mei Nong Villa Our ride to Meinong was supposed to be easy, so we didn’t rush out after our buffet feed in Tainan. We headed down the...
December 17-20 Tainan (Fuward Hotel) - 71 km day ride Gordon: We are spending three nights in Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan. It was a Dutch colony for a few decades in the 17th century before falling under Chinese control. Tainan was the capital...
December 15 - Sun Moon Lake - Doulin (Grand Earl Hotel) - 63 kms December 16 - Doulin - Dongshan (Xiang Yang Tianyuan Ju Homestay) - 72 kms Gordon: As we were cycling along the Number 1 cycle route south of Chiayi we passed a young woman cycling with a...
December 13, 2023 - Puli - Sun Moon Lake - 25kms - Song He Homestay December 15, 2023 - Sun Moon Lake circle tour - 35kms- Song He Homestay The 30 km cycling route around Sun Moon lake was one of my very favourite bike rides. A third of the route follows a...