Tuesday, March 12, 2024

A Trip to Alishan Mountain

It took many years of effort for people to build a considerably safe environment for tourists to explore the great mountain.

decided to take a day trip from Taichung to Taiwan's famous mountain Alishan by both train and bus. It took me more than an hour to arrive in Jiayi by train in the early morning. Then I saw the long line at the nearby bus station for the tourists going to Alishan mountain

Just feeling a bit frustrated for waiting, I asked a staff lady about the bus. She mentioned that it took about three hours for the bus to climb up and get to the top. The good news is it was the female day holiday so the bus was free. The lady driver was very capable of driving the steep road up to the mountain and arrived at the park entrance at about 11 am.

It was a cloudy day in the morning now the sun was rising; what a beautiful scenery with the mountains covered with flowers and trees clouds flying back and forth,

Inside the mountain resort, different trails were leading to different scenery spots. There were train stations as tourists could also take the train to reach different parts of the mountain Restaurants and Hotels were located near the train stations. So even if it’s inside a very high mountain top it’s not so wild you can see the modern world surrounded by natural beauty.

I passed the poet’s trail at which some poems describing the four seasons of the mountain were printed on the stone wall. The cherry blossoms were scattered around The tourists were very diversified Some families brought their toddler coming here

There was a scenery spot called "Three Generations Trees." The next generation grew on top of the last generation to create a strong symbol of forest survival teamwork. I observed the other trees closely. Every tree was unique; you could imagine them as different creatures. There were many giant cypress woods. Not so far away, there was a sacred wood with thousands of years history

To climb further through stone steps, you could appreciate different layers of greenery The palm trees nod heads to you; the plum flowers wave around, but I saw very few birds; it seems the voices or noises all came from the crowd of people, not other creatures


In about one and a half hours, I arrived in Zhaohe Park, which had another train station. There were gift shops and other tourist facilities. Look above, and you see the giant trees mountain peaks, and fluffy clouds look underneath it’s the deep valley all sorts of greed.


Although I could only reach so far I believe it’s a truly giant mountain you could spend days or weeks here to climb up explore further watch over sunrise and sundown with a more intimate touch with nature.


On the way back, I walked across the tourist's square, walked through the local gift stands, tasted some snacks, and enjoyed the sunshine spring day in the elegant mountain, It took many years of effort for people to build a considerably safe environment for tourists to explore the great mountain. It’s time to say goodbye to Alishan and I took the bus in the mid-afternoon to go down the hills and headed back to the urban cities.








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