Rivers of Taiwan
Every documented river trace, most recent first. Pick a specific river from the nav to narrow the feed.
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The waterfall at the end of the trace is Butterfly Gorge Waterfall(蝴蝶谷瀑布). The water is cool and pristine. There are quite a few bouldering routes along the rivers and a few pools.
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A perfect place to go river tracing. Tons of waterfalls and areas to practice climbing, and a near-endless supply of emerald blue pools perfect for swimming in. There are a fair number of people at the start point though we only saw one other group more than 300m up and no one after 500m or so. I should note that we went the morning after a big st ... orm and the water was moving quite quickly in some places. Another group we saw was forced to turn back as some of their members were not comfortable going further. Fortunately, their "leader" worked with us to set some ropes up and get us and himself across the worst of it. We wanted to make it right to the end of the river, however, were blocked around 200m from the final waterfall. We went up the mountain on our left and down to the road on the other side of it and walked out. This involved quite a few scraps and a pretty steep scramble. Either be prepared for some trailless Mountian bushwacking or have enough time to double back if you hit the endpoint we have as a GPS. The trail mountain wacked our way to can be found here 22.835964, 120.653911.
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Dry most of time in a year. The waterfall only has decent water when there are showers. Good place for boudering.
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The destination is the famous Kuhuatan (苦花潭)24.543001,121.019188. 1. Shortcut (24.542640, 121.020780): The trailhead is in the village. Cars are not allowed to get in the village on weekends. 2. From near Qifenzui Waterfall(24.54543,121.02779). Intermediate river tracing route. Beautiful pools and quite a few climb-ups along the way. The water is ch ... illing.
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Jianshanhu Waterfall(尖山湖瀑布). There's a fork leading to the bottom and the top of the waterfall just by the road. Good for bouldering around the pond.
