Craig Dodge - Blog

The place I've traveled to most by bike is WuLai. It's relatively close to where I live, the scenery is beautiful and the ride through the mountains provides a pretty decent workout.

The typical ride has always been to meet up with friends, either at Nanshijiao MRT station or Sunshine Sports Park, ride along Guanxin bicycle route to "downtown" WuLai, take a break at the 7-11 and then ride back. Occasionally, when time and energy permitted, some of us would continue along the river into Neidong Forest park, past some stunning waterfalls and more spectacular scenery. The road is smooth with only slightly challenging inclines and automobile traffic is restricted, so the ride us much more pleasant.

Today, we did something different.  I rode by myself to WuLai and met up with Josh, my friend Jeffrey and some of his friends who drove there. From WuLai, we continued along TongHo River and Route 9 into what I guess is called TongHo Park. We had to pass through one police check point where they checked ID's and we had to write in a sign-in sheet, then we passed another check point a couple kilometers later where they were restricting the number of cars and scooters that could pass through.  The road is more narrow than the one through Neidong, the scenery was as spectacular and the ride was just a little more challenging. There were several spots along the river where people were camping, having BBQ's or just enjoying a swim.

Naturally, we took a few pictures and I've uploaded them to the Bike Picture Album in my Photo Gallery. I invite you to take a look.