Taiwan Cycling Route No. 1 is a cycling route around the island of Taiwan. It is a popular touristic activity. We will roughly follow this route from Hualien to Zuoying, traveling southward along the East coast either by bike or by train. You may find more information about this cycling route on the official website: taiwanbike.tw/en.
More specifically, we will stop at Ruisui, Chishang, Jinlun, Fangliao and Zuoying, as indicated in the map below. You can see the planned accommodation and talk venues in each of those towns in the Accommodation and Talk venues pages respectively.
To go from Taipei to Hualien and from Zuoying to Taipei, we recommend taking local trains and high speed trains respectively. See the Transportation page for more details and suggestions.
Day 1: Hualien to Ruisui
~70km
~1h by train
Day 2: Ruisui to Chishang
~70km
~1h by train
Day 3: Chishang to Jinlun
~80km
~1h by train
Day 4: Jinlun to Fangliao
~85km (and some ups and downs)
~1h by train
Day 5: Fangliao to Zuoying
~60km
~2h by train