Pre-Tour
Last Edited: 2018.9.21
| 9/26 (Wed.) - 9/28 (Fri.) |
| Date | Time | Schedule |
| 9/26 (Wed.) | 06:50-07:00 | Gathering (Banqiao Station South 1 Gate, Lobby Floor) |
| 07:27-09:40 | Banqiao → Hualien (by Train No. 408) |
| 09:40-09:50 | Arrive at Hualien Train Station |
| 09:50-11:40 | Taroko National Park
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| 12:00-13:40 | Lunch at Taroko Village |
14:00-14:40
| The Meander Core Trail |
| 15:00-15:40 | Taroko Eternal Spring Changchun Shrine |
| 16:00-16:40 | Cingshuei Cliff |
| 17:30-18:00 | Lakeshore Hotel Hualien Check In |
18:20-19:30
| Dinner at Shi Ting Hakka Restaurant |
19:30 | Dongdamen Night Market (Free Time) |
| 9/27 (Thu.) | 08:00-08:50 | Gathering |
08:50-09:00 | Check Out |
09:00-09:15 | Leave for Hualien Cultural and Creative Industries Park |
09:15-11:45 | Hualien Cultural and Creative Industries Park |
| 12:00-13:10 | Lunch at Lotus Restaurant |
13:10-14:00 | Leave for Hualien Train Station |
14:00-15:01 | Hualien → Yilan (by Train No. 223) |
| 15:01-15:20 | Arrive at Yilan Train Station |
| 16:00-18:00 | Tha Place Yilan Hotel Check In |
| National Center for Traditional Arts |
18:00-19:00 | Dinner at Tha Place Yilan Hotel |
19:20-20:00 | Leave for Luodong Night Market |
20:00-21:00 | Luodong Night Market (Free Time) |
21:10-21:30 | Back to the hotel |
| 9/28 (Fri.) | 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast |
09:00-09:20 | Check Out |
09:20-09:50 | Leave for Wu Shi Gang Port |
10:30-12:30 | Wu Shi Gang Port - Whale & dolphin watching (by Boat) or Lanyang Museum |
| 12:30-13:40 | Lunch at Wu Shi Gang Port |
13:40-16:40 | Coastal road -
Fulong Visitors Center
Longdong Bay Cape Trail |
16:40-18:00 | Back to Banqiao (by Bus) |
| Fee | Registration is fully booked.
Double Room: NTD 11,190/person (If you wish to book a twin bedroom and share with someone else, we can allocate a roommate for you.) Single Room: NTD 13,890/person
The fee includes English tour guide, transportation, meals, accommodations, entrance tickets and travel insurance.
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Cancellation and Refund Policies | To cancel your registration for 2018 IAC Congress Pre-Tour, you have to contact us no later than 31 July 2018 (Tuesday). - For cancellations made by 31 July 2018 (Tuesday), your registration fee will be fully refunded (deduct processing fee). No refunds will be given for cancellations made after 1 August 2018 (Wednesday).
- Cancellation requests will be accepted via e-mail (2018iactw@gmail.com) only and must identify the registrant’s name and email address before the stated cancellation deadline.
- Refund will be processed and paid before 31 October 2018.
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Attractions
Taroko National Park
Taroko became a national park in 1986, including Hualien County, Nantou County and Taichung County. Taroko is famous for its spectacular mountains and marble canyons. Cliffs and canyons stretch along Liwu River. Four million years ago, the island of Taiwan was formed by the collision of plates. After millions of years of wind erosion, the marble rocks were exposed and cut by Liwu River, creating impressive grand canyons. From Qingshui to Nan Lake (Nanhu) Peak, the drop height is 3,742 meters. Such special geography has also bred special flora and fauna in this area.
The waterfalls characterized Taroko National Park and the most famous ones are Baiyang Waterfall, Yindai Waterfall, Changchun Waterfall, and Lushui Waterfall. Swallow Grotto (Yanzikou) and Tunnel of Nine Turns (Jiuqudong) are the most impressive natural scenes in Taroko and the canyons here are the narrowest. Tourists can appreciate the natural beauty along the tour track. Swallows nest on the cliff, chirping and flying back forth. The Taroko monumental is designed in Chinese style and Changchun Temple is to remember those who sacrificed their lives for building the central highway.
Taroko Village
Leaning against the Tower Mountain in the south, facing the Liwu River in the north, and situated on a double-layer plateau, Bruwan abounds with natural resources, where you can see various vegetation of monsoon rain forest such as Bishop wood, Lindera megaphylla, Machilus kusanoi, and local ficus trees. There are also plenty of wild animals which make possible such activities as watching birds, butterflies, flying squirrels, and Formosan rock-monkeys. The village is a world of its own with the plateau surrounded by green mountains. Life switches to a lower gear on arriving here. As swallows and cicadas chirp in the background, with a few clouds floating in the sunny sky, the natives here are almost living in a paradise.
Meal and Taroko welcome party
Taroko tribe local flavor"When Boar Encounters with Eiffel Tower" Leader Village Taroko launches delicious food of Taroko tribe, and the signature dish "When Boar Encounters with Eiffel Tower" is the excellent creation that pushed indigenous food to the international stage. It received a lot of positive feedback from tourists. They also prepared dish-serving show performed by Taroko warriors during the interval of the meal to bring the guest surprises.
The Meander Core Trail
The Meander Core Trail leads north over the Sipan Tunnel towards a rest area and the Overlook Platform next to the Liwu River where visitors can view the Sipan Dam section of the river as well as the eastern edge of Swallow Grotto. This level walkway is circular and takes around 20 minutes to complete. Interesting flora along this trail include the Formosa Lily, Azalea, Subsostate Crape Myrtle, and the Formosan Ash.
Hualien Cultural and Creative Industries Park
Hualien cultural and creative industries park is located in the center of Hualien city. The historic settlements build in 100 years ago have 3.3 hectares, including 26 old factory warehouses. It will be opened in three years (2012-2015) successively and apply exhibition, performance, dining, featured products, educational lecture, travel information, etc. Expected shape a cultural and creative vitality and contemporary life-style by artistic activities and commercial services. a-zone also is the best tourist region in East.
National Center for Traditional Arts
Located beside Dongshan River in Yilan, National Center for Traditional Arts is designed with the goal of preserving the local traditional arts while helping its renewal and innovation. The exterior of National Center for Traditional Arts is in red-tile with modern elements. All buildings and the streets display the earliers time of the island. The center had been rearranged and added new facilities in 2016.
National Center for Traditional Arts is a 24-hectare complex park that includes Definitely Taiwanese, Traditional Theater, Outdoor Theater, Modern Theater, Wen-Chang Temple, Exhibition Center, Traditional Handicraft Artists’ Studio, Traditional Music Hall, Library, accommodation area, etc. It helps the public get close to traditional arts and has the opportunity to participate DIY. Some traditional activities, experiences and games are offered for visitors to get to know more about the fascinating Yilan history.
The restaurants in the center serve a variety of Yilan traditional foods and snacks. Yilan foods are so delicious that one should try as much as one can. Moreover, there are many handicraft stores that are popular with tourists. One can buy some interesting crafts as souvenirs. Also, there are sometimes exhibitions and performances in the center for one to enjoy.
Luodong Night Market
Luodong Night Market is located next to Luodong Park. It is always crowded, and is one of the best places for shopping and dining. The traditional snacks here are popular to both local residents and visitors such as the scallion pancake. Moreover, the night market also covers shops of clothing, shoes, accessories, and utensils of daily life. Situated in the center of Luodong, Luodong Night Market is a famous tourism spot with many stores. Iced maniocs with red beans stuffing are original invention of Luodong, and the original store is in the night market. Another signature dish is medicine mutton soup; anyone has to wait in a long line in order to get a seat. Besides, rice noodle thick soup is also one of the famous Yilan dishes, and one can have the most traditional taste here. Street food vendors are all gathered around Luodong Park, offer low-price and various night snacks, such as Yilan specialties smoked duck, salty rice noodle, and Yilan Scallion Pancake. Overall, Luodong Night Market is a wonderful place to shop and dine, you should not miss visiting Loudong Night Market during your travel!
Wu Shi Gang Port - Turtle Island, Whale & dolphin watching
Wushi (literally black rock) Harbor was named after a giant black reef rock standing in the harbor, which used to be the biggest fishing port in Yilan, and the government renovated the harbor into a large base for distant fishery and ocean tourism in 1991. A fish market was established later, which further turned Wushi Harbor into a comprehensively developed tourist harbor. Today’s Wushi Harbor is also the base for a number of whale watching boats. Tourists can also enjoy a seafood meal in the fish market and appreciate the view of boats anchoring in the harbor.
Lanyang Museum
The Lanyang Museum’s landscape is a cuesta emerging from the ground. Cuesta is a geological formation that you commonly seen from Beiguan Coast, Yilan, which the hill or ridge with a gentle less than 5°, slope on one side. Besides the Cuesta shape of landscaping, Lanyang Museum’s exterior walls also were designed to musical notes look. These musical notes are the violin concerto of Vivaldi’s, The Four Seasons, and was displayed by using different texture stones to represent the four seasons of the Lanyang plain, Yilan.
Inside the Lanyang Museum’s exhibitions feature for ‘Mountains Level’, ‘Plains Level’, and ‘Oceans level’ which focus on terrain of Yilan including the plains, mountains and sea.
Fulong Visitors Center
Fulong Visitors Center close to the Fulong beach, mainly to provide the northeast corner of the coast of the natural ecology, cultural history, tourist attractions and other information display and explanation.
Driftwood Sculpture Hall:
Taiwan island was hit by Typhoons Toraji, Nari and Haiyan in a row in 2001. After the disasters, pieces of driftwood were brought to the Northeast Coast. Some were recycled at first, but others were kept because they have come from precious native Taiwanese trees. To raise people’s environmental awareness, promote local tourism and cultivate art talents, the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administration entrusted 22 wood sculptors from Sanyi and the Taiwan Wood-carving Association to make driftwood sculptures themed by the nature and culture of the Northeast Coast. In this way, the driftwood has also been given a new life and artistic values. To better preserve these sculptures, which are mostly made of rare Formosan cypress, camphor and incense cedar, the Driftwood Sculpture Hall was built. Today, they symbolize the green spirit of the Northeast Coast and the artisticness of its culture.
Longdong Bay Cape Trail
As a famous world-class mysterious sightseeing spot, Longdong Bay Cape Trail has an entrance in its south located north of the parking site of the Ocean Park in the south of Longdong. This 3.5km-long trail is gentle, thus suitable for people of all ages and genders. The view of the sea differs as one climbs higher. On the trail stands a sightseeing platform where visitors can see the Xilingyan Temple above. Walking down the stone footpath next to Longdong Elementary School to the shore, visitors can reach the Longdongwan Park via the main road in the community.
