Day 13: 23 May 2023, Tuesday For our last day in Taiwan, we took it free and easy. I woke up naturally at 7:30am even though I set my alarm clock at 8:00am. At 9:10am, AT and I left our hotel and walked to Ximending for breakfast. A visit to Taipei will not be complete […]
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Day 12: 22 May 2023, Monday It felt strange to wake up today and not have to put on our cycling jerseys and go through the paces of collecting our bikes, warming up and having Jeffrey brief us on the day’s cycling route. Reality had finally set in – our Tour de Taiwan was over. […]
Day 11: 21 May 2023, Sunday Woke up today with a mix of excitement and sadness. Excited because after working hard for the past week, our 9-day mission to cycle around Taiwan is finally about to be completed. Sad because we will soon be saying goodbye to our newfound friends and comrades who have pedalled […]
Day 10: 20 May 2023, Saturday Woke up at 6:30am as usual and the rain from yesterday had finally stopped. It was a cool 22 degrees C outside, with the rest of the day projected to be cloudy, with a maximum temperature of 25 degrees. Breakfast wasn’t great and I ate only a slice of […]
Day 9: 19 May 2023, Friday Woke up bright and early and went for breakfast at 6:30am, a simple meal of bread, scrambled eggs and sausage. After breakfast, we did our warm up and briefing before starting our ride at 7:30am, as per usual. Today, we’ll be cycling 122km from Zhiben to Ruisui (瑞穗), a […]
Day 8: 18 May 2023, Thursday Day 6 of our Tour de Taiwan, and it will be the most challenging day for a few reasons. Today, we will be cycling 110km from Hengchun to Zhiben (知本). Hengchun is the southernmost township in Taiwan so we will be cycling north towards Zhiben, a hot spring town […]
Day 7: 17 May 2023, Wednesday It’s the 5th day of cycling, which means we’re halfway through our Tour de Taiwan adventure. We woke up at 6:00am to 25 degrees C weather and had our breakfast at 6:40am before going for our warm-up and briefing by Jeffrey for the day’s programme. For today, we will […]
Day 6: 16 May 2023, Tuesday It’s the fourth day of our Tour de Taiwan cycling adventure, and we’ve settled into a good rhythm by now. We woke up at 6:00am and went for breakfast at 6:30am, followed by the usual warm-up at 7:15am and briefing by Jeffrey. Today will be the second-longest distance for […]
Day 5: 15 May 2023, Monday Day 3 of our Tour de Taiwan RTI, and we’re feeling good…we went for breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant at 6:30am, followed by the usual loading up, warming up, gearing up and briefing of the day’s itinerary by Jeffrey. Today would be a “relaxed” day of cycling from Taichung […]
Day 4: 14 May 2023, Sunday I woke up at 5:50am today, having slept very well last night, no doubt because of the physical exertions from the first day of cycling yesterday. I checked my legs and found that I could still feel them, which was a good sign. I think they would get sorer […]
Day 3: 13 May 2023, Saturday After two nights in Taipei, it was time to start our adventure – the Cycling Tour de Taiwan, or Round-The-Island (RTI) cycling tour with Giant Adventure (捷安特旅遊). Over the next nine days, we will cycle a total distance of around 900km, covering between 80km+ and 122km each day. It […]
Day 2: 12 May 2023, Friday For our second day in Taipei, we had a full day free so we decided to visit Shifen (十分) and Jiufen (九份), two of the most popular day trip destinations located on the outskirts of the city. We woke up at 7am but lay in bed until we could […]
How It All Began After years of dreaming about it, I finally completed my first cycling trip to Vietnam/Cambodia in November 2022. Pedalling my way from city to city over multiple days was invigorating and something that I had never experienced before. Over seven days and 300km of cycling, we traversed across diverse landscapes, seeing […]