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The cane bamboo meadows and craggy cliffs of Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range are mostly beyond reach for those unwilling or unable to strap on a heavy pack and trudge for hours (or days) up to elevations of over 3,000 meters. Spending a night up there usually involves a cold, uncomfortable night in a sleeping bag without a warm shower. There is, however, one prominent exception to this: the Hehuan Mountain (合歡山) area. A smooth asphalt road allows for a comfortable drive right up and over the spine of the Central Mountains, while those who wish to spend the night here

Thanks to the pre-pandemic tourism boom, much of Taiwan’s tourism infrastructure has been updated in the past decade. Among those who have especially benefited are people who need wheelchairs to get about, and those who struggle when faced with obstacles that the able-bodied can step over or step around. Not every brand-new facility is perfect, but the concept of “universal design” (ensuring that buildings and other environments are accessible to everyone, regardless of age, disability or other factors) is slowly entering the mainstream. This article looks at three tourist destinations w...

A look at the best places in Taiwan for stargazing and watching a 'sea of clouds' | 2022-01-01 12:11:00

<strong>Dec. 13 to Dec. 19</strong> On a good day, workers digging the 5,483m-long Anshuo Tunnel (安朔隧道) made two meters of progress. While the brittle rock was easy to blast through, it also collapsed easily, and the crew proceeded carefully as any mishap could set them back weeks. “We worked around the clock, but we often moved forward just the lengths of two desks,” recalls construction supervisor Shih Ching-pian (施清覑) in the South Link Report (南鐵報導) newspaper. The Anshuo Tunnel is the second longest of 36 tunnels blasted through the Central Mountain Ra...

Japan’s Sankei Shimbun last month reported that two Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Yuzhao-class Type 071 amphibious transport dock ships were spotted on Nov. 14 sailing southward between Taiwan and Japan’s Yonaguni Island, lingering briefly off Hualien County. The report said that in addition to normalizing “joint combat readiness patrols” off Taiwan’s east coast, the mission’s purpose might have been to conduct simulated landing drills. It explored the possibility that China’s military has incorporated amphibious landings on Taiwan’s east coast into its invasio...