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MATCHA MOUNTAIN ENGLISH GUIDE

MATCHA MOUNTAIN and MOUNT SANJIAOLUN (抹茶山/三角崙山)

May 18, 2024December 11, 2024 / taiwantrailsandtales / 2 Comments

You won’t find Matcha Mountain on any official maps, but that hasn’t stopped this spot becoming one of the hottest places for tourists to visit in Taiwan. An easy (if long) trail takes hikers up through pleasant forest to a summit with spectacular views of hills cloaked in shimmering grasses. Once you’ve made it to the top, it’s easy to see the appeal.

ST. MARIAN’S HIKING TRAIL (聖母山步道)

January 28, 2017November 14, 2024 / taiwantrailsandtales / 5 Comments

St. Marian's Hiking Trail, also known more recently as Matcha Mountain is a well known trail in Yilan's Jiaoxi District. It's a big climb with views that are guaranteed to make you glad you made the effort.

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This is one of the weirder natural creations I’ve come across during my Taiwan trail adventures. I spotted it clinging to the underside of a screw pine leaf on Green Island’s Cross-Island Trail. It was maybe 3 centimetres in length and cotton-candy-like in texture but with a fine outer layer of pink threads. The internet seems to think it is a spider’s egg sac, specifically, some type of twig spider (weirdly wonderfully creatures). Seen in a smallish temple Chishang: a bouquet of rice in place of the usual lilies. Good evening Taipei.

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