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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
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).
In Canada I went backcountry. No roads, no tourists. In Taiwan, I don’t have the skills, if it is even possible, but I try not to go on weekends or holidays
Hey Guys. I have this dream of mine to go traveling around Taiwan on my motorbike. I don’t have much money to stay in hostels. Do you think it’s doable to sleep at the tent somewhere in random places in the countryside or parks? Is it illegal? I know there are some camping grounds but I think they are even more expensive than hostels? I’m planing to check in the hostel every once in a while, though.
If anyone have experience please let me know. Thank you.
You have legals places where you can camp for free and have toilet and some even shower. I will updated later with the information.
Then wild camping is common too