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Feature: Taiwan gears up for summer season journey peak

by Curtis E. Kirschbaum
July 1, 2019
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On a Pacific island off the east coast of Taiwan, agencies of tourists, armed to the tooth with sun-proof clothes, are seen riding bikes under the scorching sun, in long immediately lines along the slim roads.
This makes quite a scene of the Green Island, a volcanic island of most effective about sixteen square kilometers and about 30 km away from Taitung County.
With no taxis, bikes are a convenient manner of shipping to get around for tourists, who flock to the island for its staggering oceanic surroundings presenting stunning seashores and amazing corals in addition to its famed diving studies.
“This is the busiest season for us,” said Gou Geng-you, who runs a homestay of 9 rooms at the island. “My vicinity is fully booked each day.”
Each day, numerous thousand vacationers take the ferry or aircraft to Green Island from Taitung County. They have made the lives of best numerous hundred local residents at the island busy, many of whom run dining, accommodation, and transportation groups.
Gou and his wife, for example, are busy jogging the homestay and also driving vacationers round along with his brown sedan, which is normally booked for a whole day at a fee of around three,500 new Taiwan bucks (about a hundred and ten U.S. Greenbacks).
“I’ve lived here for eight years and I find it irresistible,” the center-aged man stated, his tanned face constantly giving a pleasant smile.
Just 30 km away, in Taitung, the summer has been lightened up via a warm air balloon pageant that kicked off this weekend. The commencing ceremony alone attracted over 10,000 traffic at the early morning of Saturday, who spanned a lawn slope of the Luye highland, an excellent place for flying balloons.
The balloons these 12 months have been on the whole within the shapes of cartoon characters and animals which include Hulk, Sponge Bob, butterfly, bee and pig. After correctly commencing, the balloons fly high inside the sky and wander the stunning mountain valleys of Taitung.
During the 45-day pageant, traffic can book balloon journeys scheduled twice a day. However, organizers said the journeys are so famous that vacationers needed to make reservations days in advance.
A nine-year-antique boy surnamed Xu got here to observe the balloons with his mum all of the way from Taipei. “I just like the Hulk-fashioned balloon maximum, however, I can not take a journey this time due to the fact we failed to e book early sufficient.”
Rao Ching-ling, the magistrate of Taitung, told reporters that Taitung has made a fantastic effort into this festival, aiming to draw tourists of various age groups. “We also welcome travelers from the Chinese mainland.”
In the beyond few years, because of modifications in move-Strait family members, Taiwan has seen a drop in the variety of mainland travelers. Figures display the Sun Moon Lake, a well-known traveler spot in Taiwan, best obtained 830,000 mainland tourists remaining yr, 1.42 million much less than the determine in 2014.
Xiao Yu, who works for a neighborhood journey organization in Hualien, also east Taiwan, said their business has been suffering from this transformation. “Now there are nearly no journey businesses from the mainland and just a few person vacationers come to Hualien every now and then.”

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