Category: 2023 Taiwan

The map This is the overview of all the routes we rode with our bicycles. Approx. 1300km. – connected through a couple of local train rides. Taipei Flight, arrival and the first days in Taipei before starting the cycle route. So exploring the city: old japanes quarters, the 101 tower, meeting old friends and going to “KTV” (big karaoke centres).

2019-11-16 Last day in Taipei. Knowing that you’ll leave in the evening and it’s a “goodbye” day makes those days always quite odd. Weather had also turned, quite heavy rain in the morning, it was getting a little bit cooler. Wandered around the district for the last time, visited an exhibition, wrote some postcards and checked one last record store.

Departure is getting closer. Last days with meeting people :-/ We planned quite some days in Taipei, but time for all what we planned seems to run out. And as a side note: this is one of the downfalls of doing the island clockwise, you basically come from low populated rural areas into more dense populated towns to reach Taipei.

2023-11-12/13 After arriving in Taipei, the bicycle trip has now ended. What an adventure! During the day, we will mostly explore the city on our own the next two days – so much to do. (after all the rural experiences from the bicycle trip, the city felt quite demanding, also to its size and noisiness)   2019-11-12 Design Museum and

2023-11-11 Start: 12:00 / Arrival: 16:00 Distance: 38km / Gained height 206 hm Left Tamsui after a nice Taiwanese breakfast where we had to park our bicyces sort of creative and went back relaxed along the river back to Taipei. Took a slightly different path then when leaving town. As said: the cycling infrastructure here is so nice and a

2023-11-10 Start: 13:30 / Arrival: 15:30 Distance: 18km / Gained height 75 hm After a slow start with a Taiwanese breakfast we set of for a relaxed route – checked the Tamsui cycling infrastructure. Switched the sides with a ferry, that gave us a nice view on the two riverbanks. Headed north to some gigantic sculptures made out of sand

2023-11-09 Start: 10:45 / Arrival: 19:45 Distance: 66km / Gained height 500 hm Quick departure from Keelung with convenience store breakfast. Passed the military base again and saw some trucks. Rode beautifully on dedicated bicycle infrastructure along the pacific… (note to myself, maybe doing this clockwise isn’t a good idea, as the cycle path is designed counterclockwise, which we luckily

2023-11-08 Some 10kms This was a rather functional start of the day. Got early to the station to take the train to Keelung. Took quite some time (3.5hrs), but luckily didn’t had to change the train. Also this was quite cheap for such a long train ride, costs were about 850NTD for 2 people and their bikes. Arrived at 13:40

2023-11-07 Start: 11:15/ Arrival: 16:45 Distance: 71km / Gained height 300 hm Started the descent down to Kaichung in the morning – allthough being 7-800hm going down, there are still some ramps, heat was high and we had headwinds…so wasn’t as easy as we thought😂 Nevertheless beautiful ride going down massive valleys, with a gigantic freeway in the distance. Coming

2023-11-06 Start: 12:30 / Arrival: 17:00 Distance: 30km / Gained height 400 hm Day started of with a little bit of logistics, planing the route, washing clothes and having tea egg rolls as breakfast. Took it easily, as we just had to go around the lake. This time we took the clockwise round, starting of with the Wenwu Temple. Again