Monday, January 30, 2017

November 20 and 21, 2012: Yilan visit with rain, history and buddies


The ride to Yilan was so nice that it had to be done again, so there I went! 40 km to Xindian and then Beiyi road. 


I was cycling alone, I knew the road and my condition was a lot better. This resulted in my progress being very good. I arrived there at 16.00 already.


I cycled with Tars to the Toucheng station and we went to Yilan


Traveling with bike


We had a nice evening in Yilan, Linda joined and we went to the night market. Only downside is the latest train did not let me take the bike back, so I had to cycle to 20 km back to Wai'ao


The next day I wanted to go cycle. I headed out in the direction of Luodong, but heavy rain made me cancel that trip. Instead I went to Yilan's museum


The plains of Yilan county


The origins of Yilan.


I spent 2.5 hours inside, checking out lots of stuff related to Taiwanese history



Atayal tribe, which I also saw in Wulai 


Some more museum pics













Guishan in Yilan




A little more on Guishan



After my museum visit, the weather got a little better, so I still went for a little bike trip


I cycled in the direction of Gengfeng

With a long beard, all for Movember.


Guishan island, the real thing


I started exploring this area. At the time, it was already cool for me to explore outside of Taipei


Mysterious Taiwan



Some small attractions


Buddhist temple


Quite a deserted place here


The feeling of mystery was omnipresent 



I went further inside to see what was going on





Pretty hilly here



Crab museum, not crap museu




It was closed this day



Later I cycled back to Wai;ao and called Tars, but he did not answer



So I sad outside here and waited... I even fell asleep for a while


Wai' ao train station


Later that night I went to Jiaoxi with Tars and Nick, where we had Japanese food



270 NT



Train station



The next day I headed back by train because it was raining big time