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For our first walk of 2025, we decided to deviate from our normal coastal route and walk inland in a Southernly direction from XiLuo to HuWei in YunLin county. The reason for this this is that the coastal section running from FangYuan (end of Day 25) to YunLin county lacks smaller roads and the onlyContinue reading “Day 26 Taiwan Rice Museum (稻米博物館 – 台灣穀堡), Nine Dragons Banyan Tree (九龍大榕公) and XiLou Old Street (西螺老街) to Huwei (虎尾)”

Wednesday December 19th 2024. Our previous walk had not been since 12 April 2024 and so, with an almost eight-month hiatus in our Walking Taiwan project, we were keen to get back on the road again! We had finished the previous walk at the historic city of Lukang (鹿港) in northwestern Changhua County. We decidedContinue reading “Day 25 Fubao Wetlands, Changhua County (福寶生態教育園區) to Pu Tian Temple, FangYuan,Changhua County (芳苑普天宮)”

This walk was designed to give us a bit more time than usual to relax and enjoy some of the wonderful scenery and historical landmarks along our route at a more leisurely pace. We would begin further inland than usual with a trip to two very popular tourist destinations south of Taichung, Rainbow Village andContinue reading “Day 24 Rainbow Village (彩虹眷村) and BaGuaShan (八卦山)  to Lukang (鹿港)”

Thursday March 21st, 2024. For the fourth walk in a row, we began from the Miaoli HSR station and took another long cab journey, this time to Guikeshengtai Park, just slightly south of the DaJia Coastal Park, where we had started walking north on day 22. In contrast to the previous couple of walks, theContinue reading “Day 23  Guikeshengtai Park Da’an District, Taichung to WuQi District  溫寮四號海堤 到島到 悟棲區”

台中市大甲區環保復育公園 到 通霄 Wednesday March 6th, 2024. The weather in Taiwan has been very changeable of late, varying from lovely, warm sunny days to cold, wet windy days so we left it until Monday before finally deciding to go ahead with today’s walk. The weather forecast promised to be somewhere in between the two extremesContinue reading “Day 22 Taichung DaJia District Coastal Park to TongXiao”

Friday 2nd February, 2024. Our previous walk (walk 20) had finished with dinner at a fantastic shrimp-fishing themed restaurant in the area of Xiang Shan (香山), just south of Hsinchu. That walk had started at Wai-Pu Harbour (外埔漁港) and we had walked northwards. For this walk we would walk northwards again, hoping to be withContinue reading “Day 21 TongXiao to HouLong 通霄到後龍”

After a hiatus of almost exactly 8 months, we were back on our journey and once again headed out to the West Coast. All 4 walkers have been away from Taiwan for various reasons, so it was lovely to be able to finally meet up and the weather had obviously missed us, as it wasContinue reading “Day 20 Wai-Pu Harbour to XiangShan Harp Bridge 外埔漁港 到 香山豎琴橋”

Day 19 promised to be a very special leg of our journey for two reasons: the first being that the landscape would see a transformation from industrial to scenic, and the second being that we had a special guest star, Taiwan’s most famous Yorkshireman, Martyn – joining our merry band. Rich and Tim met upContinue reading “Day 19: Hai Shan Harbour to Nanliao Fishing Harbour to ZhuBei海山漁港到新竹南寮漁港到竹北市”

Friday March 25th, 2023. For day 18 we decided to continue walking south on the West coast, and rather than start from exactly where we’d left off last time, we skipped a small part of the heavily industrialized coast and headed to the pretty YongAn Fishing Harbour to begin today’s walk. We met up atContinue reading “Day 18: Yong An Fishing Harbour 　　to XinFeng Train Station 永安漁港到新豐車站”

After a hiatus of over 12 months, (our last walk was on January 27, 2022), we finally had a date for our Day 17 walk. We were once again lucky enough to avail ourselves of Henry’s services (one of Elaine’s twin sons) as a driver and Marie as the navigator and we set off fromContinue reading “Day 17: Zhu Wei Harbour to BaiShaJia Lighthouse 竹圍漁港到白沙岬燈塔”