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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Motien, Taiwan by TravelPod blogger Kurtmult titled “A day at the natural Li Sung hot spring in Motian” Kurtmult’s travel blog entry: “Route: Lidao – Motien ( natural hot spring ) – Lidao ( by bus – already walked ) Total distance: 7 km Altitude up : 500m Altitude down: 500m Wake up at 6:00 am after a finally pretty good night’s sleep. Beakfast is downstairs. I order and get – Hot dog / 4 small suasages with nothing else – Dan Ping/ no egg – Hamburger/ meat patty, o bread Now you mix all these unhealthy things with some onions and you have a different kind of breakfast. We learn that two busses at 9:15 and 15:15 go to Taitung and one at 9:30am to Tienchih, the direction of the hotpring in Motien. Decision is quickly made to stay another night and visit the hot spring. On the bus we meet a medicine student who is on his way to the Forest Bureau station we had visited yesterday and walk alone for 5 days ( each stop has a hut built by Yu Shan National Park and water ) past the pond and along the South-North ridge to the link of the mid cross way called Ba Tong Guan and end in Dong Pu, a hot spring mountain village on the west side. All the things he carries with him are extra light and extra expensive ( backpack only 1kg, sleeping bag for 0C at 10.000NTD, no tent ). His whole luggage is 15 kg ( similar to mine ) including noodles, apples and tomatoes. As he is a medicine student I ask him for high altitude sickness …
