Jialuo Lake – 加羅湖

For this four day weekend we had originally planned to hike some of the bigger mountains of Taiwan but getting a permit proved difficult and so we settled on going to Jia Luo lake in Yilan.

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Jia Jiu Liao – 加九寮

Wulai is such a great place. There are loads of hiking trails, waterfalls, the old street, free hotsprings and best of all 1km short of Wulai is Jia Jiu Liao – 加九寮.

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North ChaTian Mountain – 北插天山

North ChaTian Mountain 北插天山 is one of Northern Taiwan’s most well known mid-range mountains. It is famous for the autumnal colours of leaves that aren’t normally seen in Taiwan at lower elevations. However, it is also well known as a good place to practice and train for high mountain hikes.

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Stinkyhead mountain – 臭頭山 (and others)

Pingxi 坪溪 is rapidly becoming my favourite place for hiking. This is the third time that I’ve been hiking in this area and each time has been great. The mountains that surround Pingxi just look awesome and are fantastic to climb. There are really craggy peaks and huge ridges that just drop for hundreds of [...]

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Jiuwufeng – 九五峯

Taipei is both blessed and cursed. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides which means that the pollution in the city can be terrible, but it also means you are never far from a hiking trail. The ones around the four beasts are almost all of the paved variety and are lit up at [...]

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Xinshan – 新山

This is a nice little ridge hike just a bit north of Xizhi 汐止. I had the afternoon off the other week but unfortunately no one else did. However rather sitting around on me own I decided I would just go out for a drive/hike anyway.

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