Solo Hiking the Taipei Grand Trail, Taiwan

I think I really didn't bring enough food for this trip so maybe I'll like space out my snacks you know and it's all unhealthy all of it's just sugar just one of those days you know hello friend I like your tail silky feral water buffalos fight during the maze even here at safe distance what am I getting myself into I know that was gonna be animals big ones pitch and they challenged me to make two videos based in the mountains in Taiwan and I'm really really glad that they did I probably wouldn't have thought about hiking in Taiwan much if it wasn't for this there's a lot a lot a lot of really beautiful high elevation mountains in Taiwan which is really crazy considering how small it is I actually ended up doing like a much larger hike like a week later or something so that video is coming out on my channel very soon uh really really stunning views from there as well but Taipei has a lot of really beautiful nature nature and trails and and all kinds of things really close to the city it's actually kind of like overwhelming zooming in on google maps I'm like I want to go to all of these places so the Taipei grand trail it's a 92 kilometer trail that goes all the way around the Taipei region and it's split up into seven sections uh the sections that I did were section three and like half of section four I had to I had to cut it off a bit earlier because the sun was going down and I was taking too long getting all my shots and everything so and each section has like a different kind of landscape that you can choose from so for this hike I started at I'm gonna say recreation center it was only a 20 minute drive from like the main heart of the city in Taipei I just caught an uber there because ubers are really cheap in Taiwan as well and actually the whole area with the the sulfur vents and all that that's all wheelchair accessible as well which is really cool to see so that's where I started the hike and then from there you continue up to Mount Kijin I may be saying that wrong definitely am from there section four is supposed to finish at Dahu MRT station but like I said I finished it a little bit earlier I think it's really cool that Taipei has like built this this hiking trail throughout the city and you know I think for for a bit there they were like giving out prizes to people that had completed every single section of the hike I think it's a really wonderful way to get people out of the city and to get them into nature and it's all very accessible it's very easy to get to from main Taipei so I think I think if this kind of thing was close to me in Osaka I would be going there all the time one thing that I really loved about this hike was that a lot of it was downhill I don't do well with uphill sections generally I do a lot better with downhill so I really enjoyed this that aspect of it but I noticed a lot of people were walking uphill and I think that might be because at the end of this trail is the MRT like the the train station whereas to get here I had to catch an uber or a taxi so it's a little more convenient going the other way I guess I filmed this on my sony a7s3 with my f4 60 to 35 millimeter lens but I also brought along my new 100 to 400 millimeter lens which is very heavy but it makes for some nice shots and I also have my dji mavic 3 pro I don't know the mavic 3 one of them and yeah that's all I've got to say this video is a little bit shorter than usual because it's just a day hike really but really beautiful nonetheless and I'm really really really thankful for Taiwan Pitch bringing me to Taiwan and encouraging people to get out into nature I think that's all it's all a wonderful worthy cause uh so thank you so much for watching this video all the way to the end thank you Taiwan Pitch for bringing me to Taiwan and yeah if you like it like it if you want to see more subscribe and I'll see you guys next time bye