{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- PENGHU 3-Day Trip/澎湖三日遊

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Video of our latest trip to the islands of Penghu in Taiwan. Travel in Taiwan app: http://tit.com.tw/appdownload.html Music by Cold Beat: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cold_Beat/ We visited places on the main island and the smaller islands of Qimei and Wang'an. Unfortunately an approaching typhoon messed up our original plan of visiting another island, Jibei. We rented scooters which is the best way to get around. The double heart stone weir was indeed beautiful, the whale cave was impressive too. There was less people on the fine sand beach than we expected. Overall a nice trip. Nice place to stay! Migrator Intertidal Homestay (候鳥潮間帶民宿) Add: 34-3, Chengqian Village, Baisha Township, Penghu County (澎湖縣白沙鄉城前村34-3號) Tel: 0921-292-029 Website: www.migrator.com.tw Dumpling restaurant “Old-Time Tianjin Xialongbao” (回味天津小籠包) Add: 43, Juguang New Village, Magong City (馬公市莒光新村43號) Tel: 0919-872-143 Aimen Beach 隘門沙灘 Baisha 白沙 Erkan Village 二崁村 Four-Eyed Well 四眼井 Husband Waiting Rock 望夫石 Lintou Beach 林投沙灘 Lintou Park 林投公園 Little Taiwan 小臺灣 Magong City 馬公市 Magong Airport 馬公航空站 Magong Cultural Center 媽宮文化城 Magong Port 馬公港 Mazu 媽祖 Minnan 閩南 Penghu 澎湖 Penghu Islands 澎湖群島 Penghu vermicelli 澎湖麵線 Penghu National Scenic Area 澎湖國家風景區 Qimei 七美 Qingwan Cactus Park 青灣仙人掌公園, Shanshui Beach 山水沙灘 Shili Beach 時裡沙灘 Shuncheng Gate 順承門 South Sea 南海 South Sea Visitor Center 南海遊客中心 Taiwan Strait 台灣海峽 Tianhou Temple天后宮主 Tiantai Hill 天台山 Tomb of the Seven Beauties 七美人塚 Twin Hearts Stone Weir雙心石滬; Wang’an望安 “Wang’an Township Tree” 望安鄉樹 Whale Cave 鯨魚洞 Xiyu 西嶼 Xiyu Western Fort西嶼西台古堡 Yuwengdao Lighthouse漁翁島燈塔 Zhongshe中社聚落群 Zhongyang Street中央街 -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Also watch the latest video on this channel: "{Trip} LALASHAN on the Northern Cross-Island Highway (北橫拉拉山)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJuxvXnlVs -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Travel in Taiwan (2015, 9/10) By Rick Charette "We woke up bright and early this day to catch an early-morning ferry to Qimei, the southernmost South Sea island. Hopping on scooters right at the pier (rental included in ferry-ticket price), we headed out on the very quiet coastal road – more goats than cars. Qimei’s iconic symbol is the Twin Hearts Stone Weir, made of stones piled laboriously, which fills at high tide and leaves fish stranded at low. The Tomb of the Seven Beauties – “Qimei” means “Seven Beauties” – is built around a well down which seven chaste Ming Dynasty maidens are said to have thrown themselves on the approach of nasty-intent Japanese pirates. Among the other must-visit Qimei attractions we checked off our to-do list were the picturesque Little Taiwan and Waiting for Husband Rock, two coastal rock formations viewed from above. Rather than traveling straight back to Magong, we stopped off at Wang’an for a few hours’ exploration of this island. The highlights of our meander along the sleepy round-island coastal road? Tiantai Hill and the village of Zhongshe. Your walk up Tiantai Hill, the island’s highest point, leads to wonderful panoramic views over Wang’an and its numerous nearby islands. Wonderful Zhongshe is an old narrow-lane fishing village, almost all homes stone/coral-built. Be sure to stop in for the homemade ice-cream at the shop – shade is at a premium in the village – under the huge Penghu-renowned “Wang’an Township Tree,” an Indian almond tree planted by the shop owner’s mother in 1928." "Penghu is home to many long, fine-sand beaches. Four of the most popular are on the island of Penghu’s south side – Lintou, Aimen, Shanshui, and Shili. On the morn of this day we visited each in turn. I especially like Lintou and Shanshui. Lintou and Aimen are connected by a long beach-edge boardwalk; behind Lintou Beach is Lintou Park, a shady, aesthetically laid-out tree park in which you can sit yourself down to alfresco coffee at a bright and breezy café. At Shanshui’s entrance is a bustling cluster of beach-bum-style eateries and cafés, and backing its west side is an attractive protected lagoon area traversed in part by a long boardwalk. This leads to a high promontory that drops into the surf at the beach’s west end. Topped with a large lookout, formerly part of an off-limits military zone, the promontory is dotted with abandoned camouflaged bunkers, pillboxes, and other facilities, one outfitted with heritage photos and information boards (Chinese) on this spot’s military and ecological past. Near Shili, pretty much at Penghu’s southwest tip, is the compelling, still-being-developed Qingwan Cactus Park. There are two foci. Cacti, yes – the archipelago’s dry, flattish, windswept environment is perfect for cactus growth. And military history – the park site is a former Japanese military base rich in ruins, notably hidden big-gun emplacements, bunker barracks, and command posts."