good morning Taiwan - Two Wheel Cruise here! bright and early here in Taipei and
we've got a big fun ride in store for today today we're gonna be riding to if
I can paralysis correctly the Jonathan old Street which is one of the more
popular tourist destinations here in Taipei it's about a 100 kilometer roundtrip
maybe a little bit more from where we
are in downtown Taipei and we're both pretty tired because we had a late night
last night going to be Schiele night market with to Ann and her family anyway
it's a long day we've got a lot of sights to show you guys so let's get on
the road and get started checking in first checkpoint of the day we're here
at some intersection on the outskirts of Taipei and we're going along highway 106
pretty standard route here for cyclists here in Taipei this is the main the
convenience store stop we've got the 7-eleven and Family Mart right next to
each other at the intersection the cool gate over here we're about to start the
main climb going into the mountains heading towards dolphin and there's also
a waterfall that we're hoping to ride by as well today but we think there's gonna
be some serious climbing tunes really tired right now because I've been making
her ride a ridiculous amount this last week so it's also really hot it's about
34 degrees Celsius right now really bright sunlight as you can see barely
any clouds in the sky right now a nice blue sky just stopped to take a quick
restroom break here and the restroom is here in the second floor of the
convenience store another cool thing up here they have a nice little dining area
I didn't know about this this is the second or third time I've been here but
the first time I've used the bathroom and check the dining area you can see
this has a nice overlook of the mountain area of the road that we just came up
really beautiful area here starting to get deep in the mountains we're also
here with Quinn who we met the when do we meet you days ago good it go yeah
just saw you on the bike trail fan of the
Channel right here's our first fan to ever approach us while we're out in out
in the streets I guess and we saw him on the cycling path the river path here
while we did our cycling vlog around Taipei and up to what Thomas Lee what's
the correct pronunciation country done I'm completely off Thomas Lee dontre
just the way spelled right yeah so anyway he'll be joining us today and
we'll be heading towards the gel-fit what's the correct pronunciations about
five kill fun Jolin will be heading to Joe fun today we're about to enter the
mountain so it's going to be a fun hot sweaty day of climbing and it is hot
it's hot looking forward to it let's get back on the road checkpoint number two
making our way through the ridiculously hot mountain pass absolutely sizzling
out there we're taking shelter in a nice little temple area Chinese style temple
tongues taking a quick nap she's really tired and another interesting thing
you'll see here is they have basketball at the temples here didn't my quick
little break in the shade and then back on the road
we've made it to the sheaf and waterfall and unfortunately we thought we could
ride our bikes right up to it but you got to walk a little bit about 500
meters not too bad so we're gonna rest our bikes here and Quinn's gonna take a
quick break here and just watch our bikes for us since he's already seen the
park we're gonna walk over this suspension bridge brutally hot today
here's the bridge there's some sway here
here's the view of the suspension bridge from over here on the other side looks
like we're gonna go up some stairs got another bridge to cross looks like
there's a train track over here as well don't think that one's still in use but
maybe who knows these cute little donkey thinks not sure why maybe some historic
reason a lot of these guys have the their mouths taped shut
not sure why if anyone knows why leave it in the comments
lots of kind of gift shops and restaurants along the way sort of
blocking your path to get there we've arrived at the sheep through the
waterfalls absolutely beautiful view here all right we got a book it back
long road still long mountain ahead to jump in where we going next
the climbing here pretty brutal just plotted this route in Google Maps didn't
really account for the elevation but this climb is really steep we've been
climbing pretty insanely than this steep hill for quite a while really hot direct
sunlight brutal ouch nice views though brutal climb a I think this might be one
of chewings biggest climbing days in mammalian or either they call you
nobody bucket in arrival at the qatari nobody at all tamashii - can i today we
might be pushing to his breaking point for enjoying cycling but hopefully it'll
all be worth it in the end once we get over to the old historic street and get
some food in our stomachs it's about 1 o'clock right now so we're kind of at
the peak of the heat right now unfortunately we're gonna cool off a
little bit right now get a quick break in then back on the road and hopefully
check back in at the historic street we've passed a lot of roads that appear
to be the crest this one looks more promising than the rest a nice view of
the mountains you can see we're way higher than all the other mountains I'm
curious to see the elevation profile later is this the crest is this the
crest is this the crest it looks like a downhill yay
here we are we've arrived in de Fung area we just passed by the train station
which is where you normally arrive if you come here from Taipei by train and
then you got to grab one of these buses from these bus stops and then it'll take
you up this road up into the mountains which we're heading towards right now
and you'll get to the old jump in historical Street we're not normal
people though so we're taking our bikes better than the window of a bus seat
better than the window of a train seat beautiful River here lots of beautiful
bridges today has been full of blistering hot steep climbs we're
hopefully climbing up our last climb of the day kind of got this sort of highway
ish style road a bit busy as you can see lots of taxis and lots of touring buses
going by to travel to the historic spot Chung has been an absolute champion
today pushing through all these climbs we're gonna get her some delicious food
once we get up to the top let's take a quick look up here so you can see the
view to the side we're getting a nice view of the ocean beautiful view but
really painful climb there's actually a pretty big temple over there in the side
of the mountain there's some hiking trails over there here but we're not
going there today
at least there's a nice view this time
just arrived at the normal bus stop so if you take the bus up here this is
where it'll drop you off which means we're just about to enter the main
section parking our bikes real quick take a look at the view right here from
the bus stop gorgeous view the mountains in ocean we finally arrived at our
destination we're parking the bikes up here actually right in front of the
police station since they've got some cameras so we figure our bikes will be a
bit safer here than somewhere else anyway we're really hungry destroyed
from the climb about 75 Kay's for us in the blistering sunlight the entire way
mostly climbing pretty humid as well and a hundred kilometres for Quincy rode out
to meet up earlier this morning and he hasn't eaten any carbs yet today so I
think he's suffering a bit more than we are anyway first up we're gonna find
some food right next to the police station we've got some stairs here which
will lead us up to where all the restaurants are and all the fun stuff is
I actually haven't taken these stairs before the last time I just walked up
the main road
on the stairs we found some nice fruit ice cream or not ice cream from
popsicles so we're gonna get something showing really likes this fruit the
custard apple I guess is the name so she's gonna get that one what are you
gonna do I'm gonna go pineapple my not once pineapples are terrific all right
well I'll go pineapple - how about two - pineapple and custard hmm
we just came from this yes oh boy she probably got the kawaii thank you
continuing and try and find more food loving these stairs
here we are this is the famous part with the view of the lanterns that really
resembles the kayo Miyazaki film has spewed it away probably the most popular
spot here most popular photo spot all right look when Ashoka oh wow and this
is the view we'll be dining next to not a bad way
yeah check out all these posters not a bad reward after today's hard work what
have you what have you done e well this is open - this isn't even a window this
is open yep nice night breeze all right let's order some food looks like they
have quite a variety of things here yeah a bit pricey but worth it really not not
horrible all right let's see what we get so we decided to go with the set meal
here some of our first few items have arrived this is a chicken and what is
this cabbage mixed with some shrimp Richard okay and this is I believe for
some rice we're gonna start digging in we got some nice boolong tea as well
some nice chilled along - you keep that I came up this is the mill fish be
careful lots of bone no fish lots of bumps there take that's very very small
thin bone so you gotta cut that work yeah
with a delicious and what about these we find in Chinese but don't care what
we've got did it yeah is this like ear or something is it intestine intestines
okay chitlin John's favorite so this is going to be my first time
ever trying these kinds of intestines Chung says in Vietnam they eat these
every day for breakfast at her family so we'll give it a try don't so ugly when
you say that that's a shipment Jenny yeah but they're so nice like pepper
come on these are so good mmm all right if I didn't know what I was eating I'd
be perfectly content knowing what I'm eating I'm a little bit weirded out but
the face itself is really good just finished our meal walking along the
historic street right now you can see the beautiful view that we just enjoyed
while we were eating our meal and we're actually going to walk around a little
bit before we eat dessert so try and walk off some of the calories before we
eat you can see the Sun starting to set so that means we don't have enough time
to ride back home today we're actually going to take the train back so we have
kind of about 75 80 KN right now so far so the plan was to ride back today but
unfortunately not enough time anyway let's keep walking along it lots of
different things that you can find a nice magnet collection I used to collect
magnets until my collection just got too big and troublesome to carry around with
me might start up again though maybe we'll get a Taiwan magnet these are kind
of cute the TT keychain about a buck 50 for those
design design
lights are starting to come on time for us to go home before it gets too dark
before we run out of sunlight to get to the station
here we are at Dave Frank station so beautiful descent all the way right back
to the station nice sunset right now this is perfect timing so I didn't
realize we weren't actually planning to take the train back but it actually
worked out really nicely because we got to see the nice sunset view going down
the mountains in the lantern starting to be lit we're gonna get on the trade and
head back towards Taipei we're not able to get off at Taipei but we're gonna go
off at a separate station once we get there I'll update you guys since I'm not
actually sure right now myself
so it turns out that the next train that was leaving the station wasn't leaving
for another three hours or so so we had to ride our bikes down to the other
station badou station and by the time we got there it was dark but good news was
we were able to bring our bikes right on the train we didn't have to deal with
any bags or anything which is unfortunately something that you have to
do when cycling in Japan we had a nice quick ride back to Taipei and once we
got out of the station we were greeted by another awesome night market so we
got some other food with Quinn unfortunately this is going to be our
last cycling vlog here on this trip in Taiwan we have an amazing trip and
there's still be a few other videos from this trip before we leave but this is
our last big ride to our last big video anyway thanks for watching we hope
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today another big thank you to Quinn for joining us
on this ride if you don't know Quinn we just met him in one of our previous
videos while we were cycling around Taipei so a pretty crazy awesome
encounter and Quinn's a great guy we've been hanging out with him a lot on this
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