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Living in aboriginal house set back in time — Lao Qi Gia, TW.04, Taiwan

Source: Travel Pod

Nov 08, 2009

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Lao Qi Gia, TW.04, Taiwan

29th to the morning of 30th we spent in Lao Qi Gia, about 45 minutes drive and 2.0 hours walk north-east of Fonggang. In a village, where the Paiwan Tribe from Lao Qi Gia was moved under KMT rule we meet the owner of the home-stay in the old village. We follow him, who rides a motor- bike by car - at first road, then dirt road, then temporary road in the riverbed. Here we really get a first hand look at the devastation caused by Typhoon Morakot a few month before - see one of the previous reports. Totally destroyed bridges, suspension bridges with their pillars standing only with their upper part out of the gravel, the cables dangling in the air or ending in the sand. The roads on the mountain slopes are washed away. After several trial and errors which way to take - conditions change almost daily - we drive a dirt road up the mountain. Here we park the car on a grass strip as soon as we see the road becoming worse by the 100 meters and more ste ...Read the full article

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