OPPORTUNITY: The deal enables the Tourism Bureau and Thousand Miles Trail Association, Taiwan to organize quality tours combining hiking, cycling and railway trips

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 09, 2020
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

The Tourism Bureau and Thousand Miles Trail Association, Taiwan yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly launch an international tourism campaign to promote the Tamsui-Kavalan historic trails (淡蘭古道, Danlan Old Trail), which connected Taipei and Yilan during the Qing Dynasty.

The memorandum was signed by association chairman Chang Chang-yi (張長義) and Tourism Bureau Director-General Chang Hsi-chung (張錫聰), and was witnessed by Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍).

The Tamsui-Kavalan historic trails were the first trails to be chosen by the Executive Yuan in 2018 to be developed under the National Greenway System, Chang Chang-yi said, adding that the association has organized hiking activities on the trails on the first Saturday of June since 2016.

They have also since become the first pilgrim trails in northern Taiwan, he said.  [FULL  STORY]