Yilan to Taipei: Monkeys and mountains


Statistics for today
Distance 107.80 kms 67.11 miles
Ride time (hours) 6.35 -
Avg speed 16.9 kph -
Statistics for trip to date
Distance 758.60 kms 471.62 miles
Ride time (hours) 17.27 -
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016

To get away from the coast takes a serious climb right off the bat, I don't have an altimeter on this bike computer so I'll guess 6 or 700 meters of elevation gain, then it's a roller coaster for the rest of the day.

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Panorama of the coast from part of the way up the initial climb.
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Much to my chagrin I find an ever bigger mountain behind the first one.
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Bug-eyed.
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Mini waterfall.

About 10 kilometers from Pingling I see some monkeys hanging out in the trees by the side of the road. There are about 6 or 7 of them jumping between two trees. They must be Formosan rock macaques, I look it up to see that they are the only species of monkey living in Taiwan.

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Formosan rock macaque
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A lot of grunting and posturing, I guess letting me know this is his turf.
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I stumbled upon a nice bike path along the river, but it didn't last long.
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Beishi River
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Getting pretty high again before the drop into Taipei City.
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Feitsui Reservoir.

Back to Taipei before Typhoon Megi arrives, our third typhoon in 2 weeks. This one is really impressive. They cancel work and classes in Taipei.

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This one is packing some punch.