Name: Taiwan's East Coast Treasure | Taroko National Park Road Trip
Uploaded: 2018-09-03T00:18:17.000Z
Duration: 12 min 40 s
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We're in Hualien City on the east coast of Taiwan

and in Taiwan, you'll find that most of the large cities
with big populations of people are on the west coast

and the east coast is more beautiful nature

and a national park called Taroko National Park
where we are headed right now.

It's named after Taroko Gorge, which looks incredible.

There's amazing views and hikes that you can do

so we have rented a scooter -
I've got two helmets here

and Marc, I'm sorry,
I'm calling dibs on this one.

One has a sparkly star and racing stripes
and one doesn't so…this is mine.

We forgot that the lock
is still on the wheel of the scooter.

Okay…we've got snacks, we've got helmets,
we've got fuel, we have sort of a map.

These are no longer sunglasses,
these are rain glasses now.

The visor's kind of hard to see out of
so I'm just keeping my sunnies on.

You can't see very well right now but I promise
there are mountains right up there.

Marc and I drove a scooter in Toronto
for what like 9 years?

And they…we had two of them
and they were both Taiwanese brand.

So it's pretty cool - it feels kind of at home
to be in Taiwan on a scooter, don't you think?

This would've been a good day
to wear waterproof mascara.

I'm trying to like cry to get the mascara out.

Oh yeah…I just saw a little teardrop roll down.

Mainly I just want to make sure
you get it out of your eyes.

Now that I've stopped at a gas station, I can see.

♬ I can see clearly now, the rain…hasn't gone. ♬

Yeah I was going to say...
you can't quite finish that lyric.

We're inside the gorge now in Taroko Gorge and wow!

We're passing all these signs that say that you should
wear a helmet while you're in Taroko National Park

and then there's all these places that say
there's a helmet borrow just up the road so...

I think it's because of all of the um,
the rock falls that happen here

so they're suggesting that you wear a helmet.

How's your extremely wet scooter ride
been through the gorge here?

I mean it's gorgeous but it's just a shame
that it's so wet and cloudy.

I think you mean to say it's “gorge-ous.”

We just passed the sign for the Swallow Grotto Trail

and that's what we've been heading towards
so I think we are getting close.

The rain has stopped and we've made it
to the beginning of the Swallow Grotto Trail.

That's where we've been headed this whole time.

It's absolutely stunning here and I cannot wait
to walk more inside this gorge.

So Swallow Grotto Trail actually seems to be a road
that goes along the gorge

and it…it almost appears as though
you could drive through the entire thing

so we're going to actually go back and get the scooter

and then we can pull over whenever we want to.

But I'm just thinking as we're walking along here
about what it took to build this road,

like through all of these tunnels
and there's these sheer drops off the side.

I've been getting queasy just walking along here
looking down at the water.

So you can see there's a…a road over there
and then the river flows through.

This part of the…the gorge, Swallow Grotto Trail,
is I think about a half a kilometre long

and you can see how narrow it gets in parts there.

You have to be really careful in here because,
obviously it's a gorge

and even taking off there's a huge rock
jutting out there so…

So we just tried to fly the drone
and I didn't know what Marc was doing.

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Taiwan's East Coast Treasure | Taroko National Park Road Trip

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