Reveal The Mask

The Lishan is located in the middle of the Central Cross-Island Highway, where is mysterious because it is too far from each city for each directions. We had large amounts of opportunities to visit Hualien and Nantou, but Lishan hadn’t been parts of above travel routes at all. This time, we had planned to stay here for three days. Except for the Lishan, the routes proceeded we were not familiar with. First day, we drove car to Yilan city and stayed here for lunch. However, it would take over two hours drove from Yilan to Lishan, we were not able to waste too much time here. After eating lunch and preparation for essential stuff, we went into the North cross highway which was on the same direction toward Taiping Shan. Furthermore, this way would lead us to the central Taiwan and connect with the Central Cross-Island Highway which was along with the Lanyang River and bounded with the considerable Cabbage. It was few vehicles on the road and it went through several tribes. Though, it was in the remote mountains and the roads were not too meandering. We arrived at the evening and it was for dinner in time. What we could do in the evening was to buy something in the store, despite we were very tired on this journey.

On the second day, we visited the Fushoushan Farm which is close to Lishan downtown. Lots of retired worker for central cross highway stayed here to plant orchards. Although, there cultivates large categories of fruits and flowers, each of them is according to the particular season. There are two parks here, but we still finished strolling on the morning. We went back downtown for lunch and took a little nap in the afternoon. Fortunately, there was also a serious of trails behind the Lishan hotel near the downtown. Afterwards, we still intended to visit other places though the central cross way, but the serious damaged of the road made us give up going forward. There are four directions which is corresponding to Taichung,, Nantou Hualien and Yilan. However, it takes excess two hours at least for each of the destination.

Enjoy The Competition

The day night years ago, it was still moist and cold in the air. The familiar paces appeared around rotating on the track casually. Those things belong to all that is out of soul, unconsciously, left away from us gradually. We hadn’t cherished until everything was disappeared. 

The recently, the running a lot of people hated as a child have broken into the fitness or marathon silently. I haven’t thought that the running or jogging is a part of my hobbies. However, the running had occupied the significant parts in the enlightenment of life undoubtedly. Despite, it might be the first specialty which would farewell in my life.

When I was third grade in the elementary school, I obtained the first bronze medal in the sports competition. It was also the first achievement of any specified domain. The definition of the running for me was pure which was the weapon could defeat the others. In order to enjoy the pleasure of winning, it would become one of the habits afterward.

Revisit North Cross

Since I have lived in Taoyuan, the attractions here relevant to the ocean and mountains I definitely want to seek and organize into the list. However, both of ocean and mountains are closely connecting to the Hsinchu and Taipei where I had been live in many years. The various viewpoint resources are on the North Crossroad, especially for the Lalashan where are known as the peaches production. I had been there when I lived in Hsinchu. The last time I went here by riding the motorcycle via the county road. It had taken large amount of effort for planning the route.  Fortunately, we won’t take such a long distant journey from Zhongli city and we could focus on the hiking the mountains more.

As the plan, we took the north crossroad and we could stay at any interesting viewpoints freely. We commonly stay at the Daxi, but never went further via this routine. After the Daxi downtown, there is the Cihu Mausoleum. We hadn’t stayed here, because it is too close to the Daxi downtown where we still have a lot of opportunities to visit here. The first place we had stayed is Jiaobanshan park where is also related to the Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the landscape of Daxi where is similar to his hometown, he built a guesthouse here and opened for the public after he dead. It is also the downtown of the Fuxing District that is the largest land area district in Taoyuan. Nevertheless, the downtown is located near the Daxi instead of locating on the central. Consequently, large amount of Fuxing District residents required travel long distance to here.