woke up early in the morning and dug into our breakfast prepared by the minsu owner...i really like the red tea...packed up all our stuffs and geared ourselves up for rafting!!!...a van came to pick us up to the starting point which is about an hour ride away...so we manage to catch more sleep during the journey...upon arrival, we were taken to watch a safety video, after which we were each equipped with our equipment...a little more practising here and there and off we go...we are supposed to raft down along the lower part of the Xiuguluan River (秀姑峦溪) for around 22km (refer to the brochure below for the map), and it is classified as a class 1-3 rapids...and the best time for rafting is actually just after a typhoon! =p...the 3 of us teamed up with a family of 5 to make 8 persons per raft...it was really exciting...and a few times i thought our raft almost capsized haha but yet we survived....although both the dad and the mum of the family, as well as huiting unfortunately fell overboard into the river haha =p ...whenever we drift too near to the shore, the lifeguard will try to push us around with their rubber speedboat...thou sometimes it made thing worse and we become even more disorientated...there was like around 50 other rafts rowing at the same time down river...and we often do water fighting between the rafts...just splashing water at everyone u see even thou u dun really know them lol...and once in a while we need to clear the water inside our raft in case it sink lol...about halfway down we stopped for lunch that was provided...touched up on our sunblock (yes! u better!) before embarking onto another stretch of the river...thou the 2nd part isn't as exicting as the 1st part i thought, but it was still fun...too bad i couldn't bring my camera along...else will have taken some fantastic pictures of the scenic surroundings...the rafting ended about 2pm...at the endpoint, there are plenty of washrooms for us to clean up ourselves...after abit of dilly dally here and there, our van drove us back to the Hualian train station...since we still got lots of time before our trains come, we went strolling around for a while and finally rooted ourselves into one of the popular muachi store...the handmade muachi was really nice and we quickly got addicted to them, trying to taste all the different flavours possible!...but too bad they can't be bought back home since the freshly made ones can only last 24 hrs...anyway i will be heading south to Taitung (台東) while the 2 of them will be going back to Taipei...i manage to change to an earlier train and pretty surprised that they actually refunded me the value difference!...so farewell with yongwei and huiting and will embarked on another part of my journey...reached Taitung in the night and finally met up with Kevin whom i have known from online gaming...can u imagine the anticipation haha...a quick introduction and off hunting for our shelter for the night...we decided to stay cheap, so we drove to Zhiben hotspring (知本温泉) and camped overnight there...
Travel Informations
Hualian White Water Rafting Brochure (Inside)
Hualian White Water Rafting Brochure (Outside)
we are ready!!!
row row row your raft...
muachi shop that we ate and shop before the train comes
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