The Best Underrated Pacific Holiday

酷酷嫂遊台東，蒞臨 "東河戀"

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The Best Underrated Pacific Holiday

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Green Island
 
East Coast National Scenic Area: 東部海岸國家風景區- (In English)

東部海岸國家風景區 -  (In Chinese)
 
 
B&B: 東河戀咖啡小館 + 杉原美麗灣 白石牛沙灘海景民宿
 

 
Fugang Fishing Port-富岡漁港  is in 10 minutes driving distance south from this B&B. I had enjoyed fresh sea food and tasty wild local vegetables there with reasonable low price. You may enjoy riding high speed boat at the harbor to "Green Island " in 1.2 hours for sighseeing. 東部海岸國家風景區- Most of the National Costal Scenic Points are within 1.5 hours driving up and down from the B&B along ths coast. The whole area are beautiful and are not developed.

Or stop at a beachside café: they'll serve your coffee and then leave you alone for the rest of afternoon, while you wirelessly e-mail family and friends about this halcyon discovery.  Clean, green, and salted by the briny whiff of the sea. Go breathe it in. There's a whole ocean out there.
 

 
 
 
If you like sport diving, just behind the B&B (the B& B owns the private beach, one of the very rarely privately owned), there is one of the only three places in Taiwan having beautiful coral there. I was told that lobsters and beautiful fishes are kept undisturbed in the coral and rock caves to attract people for sightseeing. Not too much commercial promotion can be seen for this area. Local government try to protect and preserve this area as it is now the same as ancient past as much as possible.
 
Guided sport diving tour is available from the neighbor next to this B&B (two minutes walking distance, the only sport diving guide this area), the owner/family has around 300 diving suit availabe. Sport Diving is an extremely hot business during Summer known to ocean sport diving lovers.
 
  
 
You may find (from the slidshow of  Flickr相簿),  the photos that people standing in the shallow water on the B&B beach feeding huge goup of fishes around them. This is the only place in Taiwan that people can play with the ocean fish. It is right here on this B&B private beach. Former vice-President Lu and Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu and their family had visited and stayed here several times.
First lady and First daughter visited here too on 26th last April.
 
 

 
 
 
If try to stay at 東河戀咖啡小館 + 杉原美麗灣 白石牛沙灘海景民宿 from May to the end of October in the weekend, especially in the long weekend, better to make reservation as early as possible. It is always fully booked during this period of time.
 

 

 
Other links
 
東部海岸國家風景區報導
 
http://www.eastcoast-nsa.gov.tw/default.aspx#

Around Taiwan in 80 Days: Day 32: October 26th: Fugang Harbour to ...
 
Panoramio - Photo of (Min)Fugang Fishing Port-富岡漁港
 
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Jul. 4, 05

The Eastern Seaboard Taiwan   By Zoher Abdoolcarim

Posted Monday, May 15, 2006; 20:00 HKT The body of water most commonly associated with Taiwan is the eponymous strait—a 180-km-wide, potently symbolic divide between the island and its mainland cousin. But on the other side of Taiwan lies a far greater stretch of sea: the Pacific Ocean. On this pristine east coast, topography varies from rugged cliffs to serene beaches, and the views seem to extend to infinity. It's a pocket of the Pacific that foreign travelers have yet to hear about. Astonishingly, many Taiwanese are unfamiliar with it as well, reckoning it's too remote. Yet it's only a 50-minute flight from the capital Taipei to Taitung, the southeast's main urban center. Like many coastal resorts, Taitung offers a variety of oceanic diversions (boating, fishing, surfing and snorkeling). But the most popular pastime, in a place that's ultimately too small and unhurried for the metropolitan status it endearingly aspires to, is to simply chill out. Stay at one of several homey B&Bs dotting the low hills behind Taitung, and you can gaze out at water that doesn't strike land till Hawaii. The vicinity is still agrarian, and breakfast eggs and fruit will have been delivered that morning by a local farmer. During a stroll, you'll be able to pluck cherry tomatoes and kumquats off abundant vines. Or stop at a beachside café: they'll serve your coffee and then leave you alone for the rest of afternoon, while you wirelessly e-mail family and friends about this halcyon discovery. Take a couple of days to wind your way back to Taipei on the new coastal road—not as grand as California's Pacific Coast Highway, but equally romantic. En route, be sure to stop at Taroko Gorge—a beautiful landscape of marble cliffs, burbling streams and cobalt blue skies. In short, the east coast is everything you don't expect Taiwan to be: clean, green, and salted by the briny whiff of the sea. Go breathe it in. There's a whole ocean out there.