Taiwan Trip 2012 - Taroko Gorge One Day Trip (太鲁阁一日游)

As the glaring summer sun shines through my bedroom at 7am in the morning, I got up and prepared myself for a day trip to Taroko Gorge. Not sure who's the organiser for this tour but my hostel owner, Lisa settled everything for me. All I was required to do was to pay about 1000NTD for the trip.

Not to be travelling starved, I headed to a restaurant nearby for breakfast. Got another Pork Burger + Red Tea set. :D

Pork burger!

Seems like this was their specialty ._.

After taking away the food Lisa then fetched me back to the train station to board the bus to Taroko. All settled for me! :D

Otherwise...you could arrange your own tour here by yourself I think ._.

After about 40 minutes drive, I arrived at my first destination, which is the main entrance of the Taroko National Park. Over here I was lucky enough to meet up with people from APPS 2012 too!! 

Indoor museum

Butterfly

30 minutes later I boarded back the bus and it took me to the infamous Chan Chun Temple 長春寺 and Bridge 長春橋. It's been a long long time since I've last stepped foot here and I have to say the place looks better during the colder seasons.

Amitabha






Tiny waterfall.

Then the bus proceeded to Bu Luo Wan 布落灣. Over here there's a museum of the Aborigines and other scenic views.

As usual, many stamps for you to leave a mark as a souvenir

Aborigine weaving cloth.

At this point of time the weather was really sickening hot and I was already drenched by sweat @_@. About 30 minutes later I headed to the Swallow's Grotto for a short walk.

Safety helmet

Unfortunately this tour does not include a chance for me to try out the suspension bridge :(

Holes in which the swallow's reside in. It doesn't look as fascinating as I thought it would be any more ._.

Now this was beautiful! Blue coloured pool of water in the midst of the muddy river.

The ending point of the swallow gratto

Due to the recent earthquake, the Nine Turns Trail was closed :( If I were to come back to Taroko Gorge next time in the future I will definitely revisit that trail!

The famous rock that looks like a human head

At about 1pm we arrived at Tian Xiang for lunch. Food was relatively good as my tour group and I was served an 8 course meal which consisted of a very fresh fish and other dishes! I shared a table with a group of really friend Taiwanese family as well and it was really very nice to have a good chat with them over lunch.

Butterfly

Luckily it only started to rain when the trip was almost over.

My own box

Taiwanese peach! Very very soft and delicate. 500NTD. Bought one box back to Malaysia but it didn't really survived well :(

And last but not least, the Ci Mu Bridge and this concludes my post at this place :D

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