{"id":119,"date":"2007-08-31T07:11:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/08\/31\/hualien\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:11:05","slug":"hualien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/08\/hualien\/","title":{"rendered":"HuaLien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I visited HuaLien was about 20 years ago.  It is a place you remember and think of coming back once in a couple of years or so.  Thanks to a very organized friend, a group of old buddies made the tour.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/syw\/1275549526\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1392\/1275549526_7db09e4bb0.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"SaKaDang rapids\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was not disappointed.  It was as beautiful as I remembered, and better.  The rapid water shaped and polished the rocks.  The sub-tropical climate gave the delicious lush.  Recent rain colored some streams black.  When the ink-like water rush downstream and smashed into the rock, you get memorized with this eerie feeling of being in a different world.<\/p>\n<p>HuaLien is probably best visited via train.  Make sure Taroko, a bit north of HuaLien city, is your destination.  The beaches are clean and fun.  That was the expected bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Flickr gives you a teaser here.<br \/>\n<!-- Start of Flickr Badge --><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;}\n#flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;}\n#flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;}\n.flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;}\n.flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;}\n#flickr_www {display:block; text-align:left; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;}\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover,\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link,\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active,\n#flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;}\n#flickr_badge_wrapper {background-color:#ffffff;border: solid 1px #000000}\n#flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;}\n<\/style>\n<table id=\"flickr_badge_uber_wrapper\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\" id=\"flickr_www\">www.<strong style=\"color:#3993ff\">flick<span style=\"color:#ff1c92\">r<\/span><\/strong>.com<\/a><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" border=\"0\" id=\"flickr_badge_wrapper\">\n<tr>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/badge_code_v2.gne?show_name=1&#038;count=5&#038;display=latest&#038;size=t&#038;layout=h&#038;source=user_set&#038;user=61567470%40N00&#038;set=72157601759645040&#038;context=in%2Fset-72157601759645040%2F\"><\/script><\/p>\n<td id=\"flickr_badge_source\" valign=\"center\" align=\"center\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10\" id=\"flickr_icon_td\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/syw\/sets\/72157601759645040\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"flickr_badge_icon\" alt=\"sinyaw&apos;s HuaLien, Taiwan photoset\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1144\/buddyicons\/61567470@N00.jpg?1187970923\" align=\"left\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td id=\"flickr_badge_source_txt\">sinyaw&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/syw\/sets\/72157601759645040\/\">HuaLien, Taiwan<\/a> photoset<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Flickr Badge --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I visited HuaLien was about 20 years ago. It is a place you remember and think of coming back once in a couple of years or so. Thanks to a very organized friend, a group of old buddies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/08\/hualien\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}