[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,...

First hike of 2021 – Mt. Sanjiaolun 三角崙山, aka Matcha Mountain 抹茶山 (Jiaoxi, Yilan 宜蘭礁溪)

Last year, we were able to reach my goal of doing at least 3 hikes. We did Qixingshan, Jinmianshan, and Guanyinshan. In January, the weather on weekends wasn't as cooperative as it always rained so we weren't able to do any hikes. Luckily, on the first weekend of February, we finally had good weather! We...

Hiking Guanyinshan 觀音山 (Yinghanling 硬漢嶺 & Niugangleng 牛港稜 trails)

I'm happy to say that T and I have gotten into hiking, so much so that we even bought hiking shoes and a small, lightweight backpack, both from Decathlon. Here is our photo when we reached the top of Guanyinshan's (觀音山) Yinghanling (硬漢嶺) trail. These hiking shoes have a stronger grip than our regular rubber...

Hiking Neihu’s Jinmianshan 內湖金面山, late lunch at Woopen 木盆輕食館, and dinner at Chuan Shifu Noodles 功夫麵舖

At the start of September, we hiked another mountain - Neihu’s Jinmianshan 內湖金面山. Originally, I wanted to try a different mountain that had a harder level but my friend wanted to take it easy instead. This one’s a bit harder than Elephant Mountain because it’s steeper but overall it’s still pretty easy. It took us...

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...

October long weekend hiking (Teapot Mountain)

It all started like this… Me: My friend is so cool. She went hiking and blah blah blah Him: Do you want to hike? But it’s so tiring. Me: Yeah, didn’t we say that one of our goals this 2019 is to do at least 1 hike? Him: Well… my colleagues are actually planning a...

[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...