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Good day all,

I have created a blog CAMPING IN TAIWAN.

I like to use this thread to discuss Taiwan camping sites. I am trying to get as many campsites identified and pin point them with Google Map.

I have visited and reviewed a few sites but I can’t review them all. I hope those who had visited the campsite could share their thoughts so that others might use these information in future.

You could either post it here or send me mail via Camping in Taiwan blog and I will blog it.

Kindly provide information as follows;

  1. Name of Camp Area
  2. Address and Tel if possible
  3. Last date visited
  4. Location by Google Map or GPS (My Current Google Map)
  5. Write a short review, fee etc and if possible attach photos. You dun have to include the routes as it will indicate in Google Map
  6. Rate the campsite (1 poor ~ 5 best)
  7. Your name or email if you want to. (others might want more info)

You can write wilderness camp area such as mountain hiking where you have camp. I will include that in the blog.

Happy Camping
Spencer aka scx :wink:
CAMPING IN TAIWAN

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… Could this be moved to the Travel forum?

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Great idea! Do visit out forum! :slight_smile:

Taiwan Trek

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Is the link buggered? not working for me

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Check out this thread:

(And edit the link in your post to take out the letters ‘url’, so that it works.)

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crap… the link

taiwancamping.blogspot.com

last 2 weeks I visited a few campsites in Chiayi, Pingtung and Kaohsiung County. Will put up some photos and reviews next week after my kids school holidays.

Was planning to head up BeidawuShan but the weather was really rotten.

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[was sure there was a bigger camping thread, but here goes]

We camped at Xiaoyeliu 小野柳 last night, just north of Taidong on the coast (#11, 162km). There’s about 80 wooden platforms, a mixture of uncovered and covered (V shape). Thankfully, there were no strip lights in the covered platforms, so you either had to rig your own, or use torches.

Cost was $500 for a V-shape, maybe less for the uncovered.

But what blew me away were the showers and washrooms - they wouldn’t have been out of place in a nice 4-star hotel. Clean (no, make that sparklingly clean), great fittings, loads of hot water. Best I’ve seen in any campsite for some time.

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Good to hear. I think that place was closed for a while which was a shame as the location is stellar.

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It’s about time that Xiaoyeliu is open. It was closed for construction both times (4/11 and 8/11) I tried to camp there.

Does anyone know of any campsites in the Ruifeng/Ruili/Ruitai area in Jaiyi county? I was there a few months ago and it looks like they have a lot of great hiking/waterfalls. If not I’ll stop at one of the visitor centers and ask.

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Hi Peeps, super late to make plans but I was looking to rent a car and take my friend (she speaks mandarin which makes my life easier) camping, maybe somewhere under the stars on Friday/Saturday. She has some recommendations around Taoyuan but I was thinking of something a little more, hmm mountain top/secluded? Does anyone have any recommendations with a pin on a map? I know it’s a stretch but seeing the stars- so away from the city, would be such a nice way to end this year.

Let me know if you have any recommendations! I would really appreciate it :slight_smile:

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Why secluded? Just go with one of her suggestions.

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Lmao that may have come across differently. I wanna see the stars away from the city lights. Thinking of also somewhere in Nanao as a potential. Promise the “secluded” wasn’t a creepy suggestion :joy:

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Yea it did kind of come across as creepy LOL

Especially because you also wrote

:laughing:

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Lol yeah my bad. I’ve found a good couple of places in Yilan by some beaches. Hope the weather holds up somewhat :grin::grin:

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It rains about 400 days a year in Yilan… Somewhere in the South should be safer.

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I recommend Lugu or Zhushan Township, Nantou County. We went to Shanlinxi Forest Recreation Park to stargaze a couple weeks ago. It was beautiful and no city lights to be found! You don’t have to enter the park, there are camping places around the area you can find too.

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How close to the beach shore? Watch out for the tides or you’ll be watching the stars from the ocean.

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Every time I go camping, I’m amazed by the setups of Taiwanese. Huge tents and sunshades, more lights than a 70’s discotheque, food to survive an apocalypse, electric appliances…

Then, they move all of that to a different camping after one or two nights.

I’d had a hard time trying to justify to myself carrying all that stuff for 3 weeks in the same camping. I just can’t even comprehend how moving it every day can be the idea of holiday to anyone.

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Have you seen the air conditioned living room tent with projector and movie screen?

I like their faces when I roll up on my motorcycle with my minimalist setup :sunglasses:

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I did!

They are a combination of what we call in Spain fijos (fixers, people who spent the whole summer or month in the same camping, usually the same camping every year) and domingueros (Sunday tourists, urbanites who go to the countryside on the weekend to annoy everyone one else).

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