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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Lao Qi Gia, Taiwan by TravelPod blogger Kurtmult titled “Living in aboriginal house set back in time” Kurtmult’s travel blog entry: “29th to the morning of 31st we spent in Lao Chi Chia , about 45 minutes drive and 2.0 hours walk north-east of Fangliao. In the village Chi Chia, where the Paiwan Tribe from Lao Chi Jia was moved under KMT rule we meet the owner of the home-stay in the old village. We follow him, who rides a motor- bike by car – at first road, then dirt road, then temporary road in the riverbed. Here we really get a first hand look at the devastation caused by Typhoon Morakot a few month before – see one of the previous reports. Totally destroyed bridges, suspension bridges with their pillars standing only with their upper part out of the gravel, the cables dangling in the air or ending in the sand. The roads on the mountain slopes are washed away. After several trial and errors which way to take – conditions change almost daily – we drive a dirt road up the mountain. Here we park the car on a grass strip as soon as we see that the road is becoming worse and more steep. The landlord explains us the way how to walk and takes off with his motor bike. At first we walk down, then in the river bed, cross the river over a temporary bridge made of concrete pipes and then walk up to the village – all-in-all about 2 hours. Then we arrive at the abandoned old traditional stone-house village ( slate ) build by the …
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