After enjoying the sights of the Shakadang Trail, we drove on to view the magnificent marble gorges of Taroko at the very evocatively named Tunnel of Nine Turns (九曲洞).
Sounds of the gushing stream down below tell a story of how the gorge was carved...
Eastern Taiwan seems to be the unspoilt, untouched Eden of this part of the world...
And that's probably because the immigrants coming in from the Mainland, in the 1800s, settled on the western coast, avoiding the craggy, inhospitable eastern part of the island...
And till today, the population of the island state is concentrated along 450 kilometres of the western coast from Taipei to Kaohsiung and further south, with rail and road networks veined parallel to the western coast.
The east in contrast has only two major cities - Hualien and Taitung...
Landslides are frequent in this area...
And we enjoyed every sight as we head towards Jiuqudong or the Tunnel of Nine Turns...
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