[Cycling Taiwan] Ride From Hualien to Taitung Day 1 台灣 自行車 花蓮~台東

In today's Cycling Taiwan vlog, we'll be using our rented "road bikes" (giant fastroad) to cycle along the Taiwan east coast from Hualien (花蓮) to Tautung (台東).

This ride in total is about 200km and so we split it up into 2 days. In the first half, we decided to cycle down the more coastal and scenic route along highway 11.

We (I) didn't really properly research the route, and it ended up being much hillier and zig-zaggy than I had imagined, making us really feel the extra bike load from our panier bags.

Fortunately, we were able to send our main luggage ahead to Taitung by train at a fee of only 150 NTD, which is really cheap!

After cycling down the coast for a while and passing through a few tunnels, the dreaded rain clouds decided to say hello and the ride started to get a bit more difficult.

To get to our hotel for the night, we had to cut through the mountain pass from highway 11 to highway 9, and after descending down the mountain pass into more rain, we were quite drained of energy, but then came across this BEAUTIFUL park (Danongdafu Forest Park 大農大富平地森林園區). Even in the rain it all looked so beautiful with all of the trees and well maintained bike paths.. I really would love to come back and explore this some day, but unfortunately no time today..

After riding in the rain for what seemed like forever without any stops, we finally found a 7-eleven convenience store and grabbed some warm foods. My fingers were actually numb at this point despite starting the ride in fairly warm conditions.

After fueling up and recovering a bit, we continued on along highway 9 and finally made it to our hotel for the night. Time to hit the bed and wake up and do the second half!

Hualien to Taitung road bike cycling route on strava
https://www.strava.com/activities/1800540565

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