TAROKO NATIONAL PARK, TAIWAN

Los Angeles Times
Date: Dec 17, 2017
By: Christopher Reynolds

Taroko National Park, once of Taiwan’s most popular parks, includes dramatic Taroko Gorge. Trails, tunnels and bridges lead visits through a tropical mountain landscape along and above the gorge’s Liwu River.

Before I tell you about the Zhuilu Old Trail, I should confess that the day before I got there, I failed my first Taiwanese test of fortitude.

Guide Steven Chang and I were hiking alongside the Shakadang River in Taroko National Park, a medley of gorges, mountains, jungles and waterfalls that is Taiwan’s tropical answer to Yosemite.    [FULL  STORY]