[Taiwan hiking diaries] Qinglong Ridge 青龍嶺 and Mt. Dadong trail 大棟山步道

We added another mountain to our hike list - Qinglong Ridge 青龍嶺 and Mt. Dadong trail 大棟山步道 in Shulin! Granted, we didn’t walk the entire route because we didn't know that we had already drove past the starting point. Oops! That's something we can do next time. Before we went to Shulin for our hike,...

Hiking Taipei’s highest peak: Qixing Mountain 七星山

Back in late February, we hiked up Mt. Qixing 七星山 in Yangmingshan 陽明山, which is the highest peak in Taipei City at 1120M. Yes, my legs screamed bloody murder after. We took the trail from Lengshuikeng 冷水坑. This was our 2nd hike ever, and our 1st for 2020! It slowly started becoming foggy (zero visibility) as...

[Chua family in Taiwan] Climbing Elephant Mountain 爬象山

One of the easiest hikes (I feel like?) in Taipei is Elephant Mountain trail because it's just a long flight of stairs that you climb. It's about a 20-30min. walk up (depending on your pace) and I think from the top you can choose to continue walking in different directions to get to the nearby...