Taiwan News
Date: 2018/07/08
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Nanao’s “secret beach” (By Taiwan News)
TAIPEI (Taiwan)—If there is one place in Taiwan where you can indulge yourself in the joys of exploring both the mountains and the sea, where you can enjoy quietness and relaxation, and where you can engage in lots of adventure activities, it must be Nanao Township in Taiwan’s northeastern county of Yilan.
I embarked on my getaway to Nanao around 1 p.m. on Friday (July 6). I took National Highway No. 5 because it was the quickest way to get to Yilan County from Taipei. At the end of the national highway, I took the Suhua Highway (Provincial Highway No. 9). Since a couple of sections under the Suhua Highway Improvement Project were completed and open to the traffic not long ago, travel from Taipei to Yilan and Hualien has been a lot easier and quicker. It takes about two hours to get to Nanao from Taipei.
Nanao, located in the southeast of Yilan County, is geologically formed by the alluvial plain of three rivers (Nanaou River, Nanao North River and Nanao South River), and the town is surrounded by high mountains on the north, west and south sides, with the east side bordering the Pacific Ocean with a 8-kilometer-long beautiful mixed sand and pebble beach.
The first thing I did after arriving in Nanaou was to have shaved ice at an ice shop called Jianhua Ice Shop (建華冰店), a traditional ice shop on the main street (Provincial Highway No. 9) that sells really delicious shaved ice. I chose the mulberry ice from a great many choices. [FULL STORY]