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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Lidao, Taiwan by TravelPod blogger Kurtmult titled “From now on its downhill to Lidao”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Kurtmult’s travel blog entry: “Route: Yakou – Chiang Yang Forest Bureau Center ( start for many trails ) – Motien village ( with hidden natural Hot Spring ) – Lidao Total Distance: 33 km Altitude up: 170m Altitude down: 1460m Wake up at 4:30am and at 5:00am it is 13 degrees outside, but luckily the wind has died down. Today it is mostly downward from km 149 to km 177 and from 2.560m to 1.100m. The sky is clear, landscape beautiful, but dryer and softer. A big bird dressed all in blue walks majestically across the street – we later see a picture of it and recognize it as the Mikado pheasant. At km 155 we arrive at the Chiang Yang Forest Bureau Center. We visit the exhibition hall with Bunun tribe and area information. Here we also see the bird picture. We the walk 3 park trails of 650, 850 and 1700m each, mostly interlinked. The center is also the starting point for several trails for which permits are required. One hike is to the Chia Min Hu lake , which is a 14 km hike from 2100m to 3400m – air at this altitude is already thinner and makes breathing more difficult. Usually it is a 2 days hike with an overnight stay in a huts ( 2 huts with 60 and 100 people capacity ). 2 to 3 busloads of people are just returning. We walk on till km 169.5, a small village called Motien. The walk downhill really …
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