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Around Daliao


I have eagerly followed the local Taiwanese news and I’m especially interested in news associated with our local township Daliao(大竂).  Unidentified toxic gas releases at the local industrial park have kept Daliao to the national headlines recently. If you take a quick look around it is not difficult to see why this type of news item is indicative of the area in Taiwan we have chosen to live.

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Night time view across the small pocket amongst which we live.

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Jinshui camp historic trail hike 浸水營

A good road map and a bit of adventure can lead to some great discoveries. That is how we happened on the historic Jinshui camp mountain trail that once provided East-West passage through the Southern mountains of Taiwan. A day trip into the mountains three weeks ago seeded the idea to traverse this trail with the whole family. This weekend along with Joel and son Martin we made that happen.

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