Taroko National Park is a stunningly beautiful reserve and, if we ignore any political and cultural atrocities that have bemused the people here, is a wonderful place in the midst of technologically and industrially developing Taiwan. It is a huge tract of land that follows a river into the mountains and terminates at the watershed of the island. The river has gouged its way through the metamorphic marble and limestone over its tenure here and has created a valley and a gorge that takes a while to admire in its whole. This is the early sections of it, and if you can see the rock itself, there are wonderful nodes of erosion and carving into the rock mass. The water is a crystalline, blue hued chilly flow that calls for you to swim.
Above - a bridge over a waterfall.
Above - Trevor and Crystal take a break after a large uphill climb to get a view of the valley. It was hot...very hot!
Above - Another waterfall froma distance.
Below - Monkey; Taiwanese Macaque
Above - Another bridge that crosses the tributary valley below. This is not the main river, but, like I wrote, a tributary which we hiked up. Water is ver prominent in Taiwan, and river and stream systems abound - many bidges and many links to watre in their culture and economy.
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