After our early morning sunrise viewing and smiley-face breakfast, we departed Taichung via high-speed train for the little town of Chaiyi. A bus ride from there brought us to another train... this one was the polar opposite of the first; it was old, slow, and bumpy. But what a ride! It bore us through 3 different vegetation zones and well over 45 tunnels on a very narrow track. We made stops for a truck which was abandoned in the middle of the track, as well as a section of washed out track, where we took a nice little 500m hike to the next train. This train climbed the mountain... FAST. Note the map labeled "Spirality of Dulishan" which depicts the unusual route the train follows in one such climb. As we got closer to our destination, Alishan, we stopped seeing palms and began seeing larger and larger cypress trees... To be continued...
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