Tour in Taiwan, Roaming in the valley of Guguan, hot springs, hiking in the Shaolai trail & Baxian Mountain,the Eight Immortals Mountain

Guguan is located in Taichung, and is famous for its hot springs. Guguan is also a famous valley. there is a famous trail, Shaolai Trail, for the tourist to hike. Thanks to it is a natural valley, there is a lot of natural ecology, such as Taiwanese black bear. Taiwanese black bear is the national protected animal, which number is less than 250 in the world. Taiwanese black bear only could be found in Taiwanese mountain. The white V in the chest is the famous mark for the Taiwanese black bear.  When we hike in the higher mountain of Taiwan, we should be careful for and far away from the Taiwanese black bear, because Taiwanese black bear has the aggressive.  secondly, we should be careful for the wild viper. 

There is a lot of hotels which are offered the service of hot springs. When we return to the hotel from the hiking, we could take a shower and enjoy the service of hot springs. 

This is the entrance of the Shaolai Trail.

This is the suspension bridge in the Shaolai Trail.

 This is part of the Shaolai Trail.

 This is part of the Shaolai Trail.

There are also many Taiwanese aboriginal peoples living in Guguan.  The dolls shows the traditional dresses of the Taiwanese aboriginal peoples. But, in the current factual life, their dresses and culture of life are almost the same with the general peoples. 

The doll is Taiwanese black bear. In the current factual life, it is almost hardly for us to see the wild Taiwanese black bear. 

There is a hot spring park. A lot of families come here and enjoy the hot spring. There are many little fishes in the hot spring. The fishes bite the feet of the families.

In the Tourist Visitor Center, there is a wall which introduces the famous hot springs in Taiwan and in the world. From Guguan, we can take a bus to the deeper mountain, Baxian Mountain, which is one of the National Forest Recreation Areas.

This is the entrance of Baxian Mountain, the Eight Immortals Mountain. We need to buy the ticket. The cost is used to maintain the ecological environment and other miscellaneous expenses.

It shows the earlier glutinous rice culture of the aboriginal people, and let the travelers to experience such culture. 

There are also cabins available for accommodation here.

 Peach is the specialty here.

There are a lot of birds and butterfly ecology here.

 There are also many trails to hike. 

 The Eight Immortals Mountain, Baxian Mountain, is above 2000 meters above sea level.

There is the Tourist Visitor Center, which is offered the ecological education for the children and families. 

Bus information: we can take the bus#153 from the bus station#21 in exit#6 of Taichung High Speed Railway Station. Its final station is Guguan. 

Travel in Taiwan, experience the interesting tour of picking oysters, in Wang Gong fishing port.

Wang Gong Leisure Fishing Port is wetland and the place to produce the oyster. Experiencing the interesting tour of picking oysters is one of the favorite tours which is voted by the students of university. Most of the young people like to experience the funny in picking oyster in the wetland of Wang Gong, and eat the fresh oyster picked by them. This must be reserved first with the operator. You might be interesting in experience the hard work under the big sun. We can have any information from the tour visitor center.

 This is the guide map of Wang Gong fishing port.

Black and white colors of the lighthouse in Wang Gong are used to warn ships that they can't get close, otherwise they will be stranded.

There is a blue bridge, which is called the bow of the king. It is the famous landmark in Wang Gong. The Wang Gong Fishing Fire Festival is held every July, and the splendid fireworks are lit at night around the bridge. It is also a good place to view the sunset. 

Travelers ride the iron ox cart to the wetlands for experiencing to pick the oysters. In the early time, the ox was trained by the operator to drag board car into the farm. It is hard work to breed the oysters under the big sun and it is quite different from our daily life. 

More landscapes and introduction which you can view the video. If there is no subtitle in this video on your smartphone or ipad, please click on the up-right corner, and choose to open the subtitle (on YouTube).  

How to go to the Wang Gong Leisure Fishing Port?

1. We can rent a car in the personal rent car service at the High Speed Railway Station of Taichung, Taichung Railway Station or Changhua Raiway Station,  and ask them the route to the Wang Gong Leisure Fishing Port, or you can google the map and route. 

2. We can take the bus from the Yuanlin Bus Station in Changhua to the terminal Station in Erlin, where are more bus to Wang Gong.  We must have a stored value card for the bus to swipe on the credit card machine when we get on or off the bus. The Round-trip fare of a person is about 400NTD.  When we are in the airport of Taiwan, we can buy such card, it doesn't record any name and needs to have a deposit 200NTD, which cannot be used as credit, so we need to additionally store value in the card additionally.  It is very convenient to use this card to take the subway, train, bus or to buy something in the convenient store in Taiwan.  When we leave Taiwan, we can return this card in the airport and receive the returned deposit 200NTD and balance.  

May you have a happy journey in Taiwan.