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About this activity
Enjoy a complimentary hotel pickup from your Hualien City Hotel. Take a scenic 40 minute ride along the East Coast before arriving at the "Jewel of Taiwan", Hualien's Taroko Gorge National Park. Our tours start earlier than most, to ensure a most relaxing and private feel.
Throughout the day we'll hike through forests, over suspension bridges, along winding rivers, and on the edge of cliffs!
Itinerary:
• 7:30-8am Pick up from your Hualien City Hotel
• 9:00am arrive at trail-head.
• Check in with park staff (permits included) and purchase tickets (tickets not included)
• Hike for upward 3.2 km
• Rest for lunch (please bring your own)
• Hike downward for 3.2km
• Visit the beautiful Qingshui Cliffs
• and more if time allows!
• Drop off at hotel between 3-4pm
Throughout the day, you may see monkeys (Formosan Rock Macaque), more than 250 kinds of butterfly, countless lizard and spider species, 144 bird species, and so much more that fill the water, jungles and forests of the Gorge. Taking a walk through the forests of Taroko, it becomes pretty obvious at once that you are not alone!
High in the mountains above Taroko Gorge National Park near Hualien, Taiwan lies a trail unlike any most people ever see or experience in their lives. Carved into the flat face of a massive cliff of solid marble, the Zhuilu Old Trail sits perilously more than 700 meters above the canyon floor below.
With limited (often no) guardrail or fencing along the trails edge, one can stare down past their toes at the great Liwu river winding like a little creek over half a mile down. As if that wasn’t enough, the 500-meter-long cliff side portion at the top is only 90cm wide!
History of the Zhuilu Old Trail
Once part of the old Cross – Hehuan Mountain Road during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the infamous Zhuilu Old Trail was originally built as a hunting path through the mountains by Truku tribes people in the 1800’s.
It wasn’t widened to its current 90cm width until the occupying Japanese in the early 1900’s needed a route to move heavy artillery through the treacherous mountains.
Scattered along the first legs of the trail winding up to the cliff, remains can still be seen of several tribal sites and outposts of the Japanese presence.
Due to its high historical and cultural value, the trail has been designated as a “Historic Preservation Area” in Taiwan”.
In 2008 after much maintenance of the trail, it was reopened to the public.
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Included
  • Bottled water
  • Driver/guide
  • Tour escort/host
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (Hualien City)
  • Use of helmet
  • Transport by private vehicle
  • Permits
  • Fuel surcharge
  • Landing and facility fees
Not included
  • Trail Tickets ($200ntd)
  • Gratuities
Additional
  • Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 6 travelers
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