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.

Afterward, we had arrived at the Xiao Wulai where the most famous viewpoint on the North Crossroad is. It is known as the footpath that municipal government had built and propaganda many years ago. You can step on the footpath which across the waterfall, and enjoy the landscape through the transparent floor. The concept is also applied at the Grand Canyon National Park in the Unite State. However, we were little disappointed due to the scale. After the Xiao Wulai, the vehicles on the North Crossroad decreased significantly. The road is also narrower as we entered the mountains. When we arrived at the bed and breakfast it was in the evening. We ate dinner on the street and got back to the bed and breakfast with adequate food where is on the top of the terraced fields.

On the next day morning, we ate breakfast outside the chalet. We were able to enjoy the landscape and took several pictures at last. We are still necessary to set off to the Lalashan immediately. The entrance was not too much change but the God trees have got the serious damage due the typhoon last year. The management have announced that there would only open a part of the area. Consequently, we had only seen less than five threes on the routine. The remaining time, we visited the Baling bridge that is the landmark on the cross road in the Lalashan. There are two bridges, one is for the pedestrian and the other is for vehicles. The North Crossroad is also much wider here. There were also pathways we enjoy on the afternoon near the bridge. This time, we left here earlier so we were able to stay anywhere casually. As usually, we arrived at Daxi before darkness and we still could eat the dinner and took a walk leisurely.