Day three of our vacation started out with us going back to the gorge planning on going on a morning hike and meeting others of us for lunch. We walked up a path next to a gorgeous river, and planned on making a loop back to the visitor center. We had heard good things about the Shakadang trail, and were pretty excited about it.
After climbing up the mountain consistently for awhile and counting down the kilometers we had left, we slowly realized the path hadn't been counting down to the entrance. Instead we were on top of the mountain, still in the clouds. It was beautiful of course, but our planned hour and a half hike ended up turning into a five hour hike. Blame it on not knowing what the locals were saying as they motioned up the mountain!!
The plus side is that we were able to enjoy all of the scenery, including and aboriginal village situated in the mountain top. It was a lot of stairs, as is very common in Taiwan, coming to the end of the trail was a straight shot down the mountain, and that meant hundreds and hundreds of stairs. I was pretty dizzy by the end!!
We weren't too worn out from our hike to stay in from the night life of Haulien. We found a local college with students who put on a traditional dancing show! It was super fun, and we got a picture with them at the end:)
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