what's going on Taiwan?
Two Wheel Cruise here! Checking in on day 3 of our Taiwan Cycling Trip!
Today we're cycling around Hualien City on Taiwan's East coast
Yesterday we rode over to Taroko National Park
beautiful ride and beautiful weather!
it actually started out kinda cloudy and gloomy like today..
the clouds right now are not looking good
it was raining earlier this morning when we woke up
so we went to get some Taiwanese breakfast
then edited some videos back in the hotel
we waited for the rain to stop and now it's not so bad..
not clear skies but at least no rain
we're going out for a little ride on our rented road bikes
first we're gonna go to the beach and see what there is in Hualien
tomorrow we'll cycle along Taiwan's East coast from Hualien to Taitung
hoping that the weather is good!
currently cycling along a river path
they must have cut the grass recently
but nice beautiful path no cars
anyway, let's check back in at the coast
so we're doing this ride with no plan
I just said let's go to the ocean first
and just go along the coast for a bit
and we ended up finding this cool river
path that led right to the ocean so
really cool stuff
I love having no plan and finding cool things
beautiful sights no matter where you are cycling in Taiwan
gonna walk up this path a bit see if it goes anywhere
there you go it looks like we found another road so we can keep riding
right along the beach pretty cool
it looks like you can just drive up your car here
there's no problem with parking
parking is really bad in Japan
it's also really expensive in Japan
beautiful
a bit cloudy today, but looks cool
looks good with the mountains
this beach is all rocks!
lots of people out
cool mountains over here
endless beach of rocks
I wouldn't want to do a beach party here..
so we're going to cycle along the bike path along the coast here
do a little loop around Hualien and then
hopefully come back around on the north
side and go back along the coast back
hoping that it won't rain..
anyway, let's continue today's ride!
little coastal path no cars no bikes but
okay for these kinds of bikes
nice palm trees along the right let's
coast with the waves splashing on the
left beautiful lady in front with cushy
Kenosha middle mine
way different architecture here in
Taiwan compared to Japan even though
there are a lot of similarities between
the two countries we found that there's
also a lot of similarities between
Vietnam in Taiwan so they have the
concrete buildings no concrete buildings
barely any concrete buildings in Japan
but really popular in Vietnam also
apparently really popular here starting
to approach that mountain over there
this has been a really great path
cycling along the ocean coast beautiful
path really well maintained lots of
space and lots of people out lots of
people fishing too which is cool to see
doing really likes fishing she's upset
that I've never taken her out fishing
but I don't have any equipment I'm not
very good at fishing so you got to learn
how to fish anyway we're approaching the
big mountain range that we saw earlier
and we're actually going to check that
out right now because there's two main
highways that we can take down to
Taitung tomorrow one is highway 9 and
one is highway 11 so one of those goes
along the coast of the ocean and then
one of them is more inside closer to
like the main city area so we're going
to check and make sure that we know how
to get to that road so tomorrow's route
will be nice and smooth we're gonna make
sure that it's nice and wide for us to ride our road bike there
so let's go check it out
lots of great cycling paths here
really great to see. Iwish Japan would build more cycling paths like this..
made it to the bridge!
here we are starting our way on highway number 11
we'll be riding this route tomorrow once
we cycle down to Taichung from hua Lian
we're gonna scope it out a little bit
just make sure that everything looks
okay and then we're going to head back
in to Hualien get some snacks starting
pretty hungry
it looks like we're in for an absolute
treat tomorrow this coastline is
beautiful we're stopping right here
along the coast you can just see this
absolute beautiful Ridge down to the
water below beautiful sounds of the
waves beautiful sounds of the cars as
they drive by on the highway but it's a
freshly paving road at least this
sections really nice beautiful little
restaurant area right here we might stop
and grab a snack
and we're hoping we'll have good weather
along the coast tomorrow when we do this
ride really glad we saw today so in case
it does rain tomorrow we do know how
beautiful it is anyway let's search for
some food loki de coco maraquita el cata
so no Fukuoka Karina
these rental bikes are doing a really
great job by the way here's the
beautiful toast to tongue kawaii as
always beautiful done make sure you saw
us all it was a bit inevitable with all
the rain clouds that we saw today we got
hit by the rain and we're taking shelter
right now at a lovely 7-eleven
convenience store and we're also
stocking up on some food chewing this
pretty upset that we didn't eat lunch
yet so we grabbed some convenience some
bento Taiwanese bento here some rice
some chicken some other goodies and I
got kind of this like I'm guessing kind
of like curry rice Oh actually this is
curry this is they do have some that's
cool they do have some Japanese written
here on some of the products Bob won't
cut it
which means vermont's like which is
famous for apples in the US and a curry
brand in Japan so it's using their roux
to make their curry so I got the Korean
rice too and got the bento and we're
just eating right here Peter ducky Maas
doh or she so nobody got a kawaii name
we also got some dessert here and some
Pocari sweat sports drink working
quarter this dessert nay
II think it on
rain starting to come down a bit harder
it was actually coming down a lot harder
just a few minutes ago not looking like
a good situation for us right now
I'm gonna try and wait it out a little
bit this desert ended up being really
good the taro potatoes sweet potato cake
the purple sweet potato cake really good
stuff back on the road a little break
from the rain this is turning out to be
a really scenic detour saw this route on
Strava and really I convinced willing to
come out of our way to go over here and
we're getting really scenic route
through the mountains right now there's
supposedly a really beautiful lake up
ahead so we're making our way towards
that the rain has stopped eased up on us
for right now so we're enjoying some
really scenic Misty Mountains right now
absolutely beautiful views bike lane the
whole way
loving seriously loving all of the bike
lane paths here nice wide roads not too
busy look at that we're not even that
high up in elevation right now but
you've still got some clouds coming down
this low man chunks killing it on this
climb I've been trying to chase her for
a while but she's still pulling up in
ahead right now the power of all the
food we just ate
again ah
no today mom I'm a teenager
random white and blue building here
apparently we've arrived at Lake Liyu
beautiful up here
beautiful interesting trees some
beautiful houses looks like they got a
bike path going around the lake here we
are at the lake
in typical Asian fashion lots of people
out on like Swan paddle boats and tune
playing on the rocks so we're actually
going to give up on the cycling path
here it looks like there's lots of
people walking and parts of it are wood
and it's wet right now so it seems a
little bit dangerous and it's not that
big of a lake anyway and we want to
hurry up and get home because we got to
start packing and preparing for
tomorrow's ride and we want to make it
to the night markets to get some food
tonight so we got to head back home
let's continue with the ride 16k back to
Hualien
hopefully downhill looks like they got a
pretty interesting little town in
support of the tourism in this area
chewing was saying this looks like a
popular date spot lots of food options
finishing up our ride here in Hualien
beautiful sights as always
we're entering back into the city right now
and as you can see bordering the city right next to
us we've got these awesome mountains
can't beat this view especially right
after a rainy day the clouds and
everything in this area with the giant
mountains absolutely beautiful we're
almost back at the hotel
just finished today's ride
we ended up with 55km, which is a bit more than the 20km I told my wife we would do
views along the way were really great as
you saw in the video anyway thanks again
for following along with today's video
we're going to shower and then go to the night market for some food
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