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What is the specialist thing must do in Taiwan? 

Enjoy people, food, see Taipei 101, night markets, shopping are good things to do. However, Taiwan is also an island with many beautiful nature landscapes such as high mountains, clear lakes, seas…etc. Just because it is not really big land but have so many treasure of nature so everywhere is not so far. That’s why we said it’s a place you could enjoy mountain and sea in only one day! For the people who love both of them, Taiwan is one of the good chooses to visit.

 

These years, Taiwanese people have some new ways to adventure this island! They called “New Taiwan Triathlon” means a sport includes three different activities:  “Drive bike travel around Taiwan”, “Climb Yu-San mountain”, “Swim across Sun Moon Lake”. Many people put this target in must do before die in Taiwan. Today, we are going to talk about one of this activity “swim across Sun Moon Lake”.

Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) locate in Nantou which is the only administrative area doesn’t bear the sea. However, Nantou has beautiful mountains surround all the area. Therefore, Sun Moon Lake got amazing Mountain View. The best thing while you swim in the lake is get into the clear water than swim in front the mountains.

The swim activity normally at September, the water is not so cold but due to need stay in the water for some hours. The participant who not always practice swim is better prepare dive skin and cookies for avoid hypothermia. Also, the organizer also prepares chocolate and water en routes for participant to eat.  Moreover, you will see many participants swim with different costume. It’s very interesting!

Swim across from one side of the lake to the other is about 3.3 km. Basically for completed the swim is about one or two hour. However, my friends and I am the people who not excise every day so we took some rest en route. Therefore, we spent about three hours to complete.

Mostly the participants are Taiwanese but recently many foreigners start to join too. This year there has 25,000 people joined this activity among 1,088 foreigners from 30 countries attended.

 

 

For swim across Sun Moon Lake, you need to be joining to a group at least 8 people to apply the permit. If you have only less then 8 people there have two way you could still join the activity: First, join with travel agency. Some travel agency open big group for the guest. Normally join this kind of team are more expensive but they will include transportation and all the equipment so for the people who don’t have car, this is one of the easiest way. Second, you could join the team of strangers on Internet such as webpage of backpackers. There always have some people want to make a group by their own and welcome the guest. That means it's a good chance to know new friends.