Touqian River, Yangmingshan – 頭前溪

Yangmingshan, the national park closest to Taipei, is most famous for it’s hiking and breath-taking views, but it is also a great place for rivertracing.  The Touqian River 頭前溪 to the north-east of the park is a particularly beautiful place to cool down and challenge yourself climbing some big waterfalls.

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River Tracing near Wanli, Yangmingshan

This was the second time we’ve been to this spot.  The first time we actually found it by accident.  Our intention was to go to a completely different place but we couldn’t find it and so we just settled on anywhere, anywhere being next to the Dixi bridge.  This time was pretty much the same!  [...]

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Formosa Adventuers – The grand finale!

At long last, after a busy month for all of us, we’ve finally been able to sit down and put the finishing touches to our final video! The last stage of voting begins on the 1st of October and runs until the end of that month. After that it’ll be a tense wait until the [...]

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The Formosa Adventurers

We finally made in back to Taipei late last night after four fantastic days of travelling down the east coast of Taiwan. We’ve all had a great time and looking back on it, it’s amazing just how much we managed to fit into only four days. Eventually, when we’re all sorted out and fully recovered, [...]

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Formosa Adventurers

I blogged earlier last week about Taiwan’s best trip in the world competition and after a crazy weekend of filming and running around the hills surrounding Taipei, we’ve finally got our group video up! We would very much appreciate your support and if you’d like to vote for us you can check out this link [...]

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The Best Trip in the World

Following the success of Australia’s “best job in the world” competition, the Taiwan tourism bureau has decided to create a similar competition. The preliminary round involves coming up with a four day plan to travel around Taiwan. Team’s have to make a video introducing themselves and then put that on the net. Each team is [...]

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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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