Qualla: Yuli https://qualla.com/yuli en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/m/yuli-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Yuli https://qualla.com/yuli Yuli: Introduction https://qualla.com/yuli/ Photo credit Padai, CC BY-SA 4.0. The pomelos start appearing just outside the station exit, piled in crates on folding tables, their thick yellow-green skins giving off a faint citrus smell in the warm air. Yuli (玉里) is the kind of town where the best orientation tool is not a map app but the tourist board in front of the railway station—a hand-drawn thing that shows where the noodle shops cluster, which road leads to the hot spring, and roughly how far the mountains are before the path gets serious. This is the central township of the Huatung Valley in Hualien County, caught between the Central Mountain Range and the Coastal Mountain Range, a farm town with a historic trail threading into the high country and a railway line threading through toward the coast. It is not a destination that announces itself loudly. But people who stop here—and most visitors do not, rushing through on the way between Hualien and Taitung—tend to find it sticks.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/m/yuli-wk/wsnm-yuli-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yuli: The Walami Trail and the Mountains https://qualla.com/yuli/ Photo credit 雲角, CC BY-SA 4.0. The main draw for hikers and history seekers is the Walami Trail, a path that follows an old Japanese administrative route into the mountains east of the valley. During the colonial period, Japanese authorities used it to maintain surveillance of indigenous villages in the high c...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/m/yuli-wk/wsnm-yuli-the-walami-trail-and-the-mountains.mp3 0:06 2 full Yuli: Yushan National Park at the Doorstep https://qualla.com/yuli/ Photo credit original-uploaded by Kailing3, CC BY-SA 3.0. Yuli serves as one of the access points to Yushan National Park, one of Taiwan's nine national parks. Yushan—Jade Mountain—is the highest peak not only in Taiwan but in all of East Asia outside of the Himalayas and Central Asian ranges, reaching 3,952 metres. The park encompasses...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/m/yuli-wk/wsnm-yuli-yushan-national-park-at-the-doorstep.mp3 0:06 3 full Yuli: Yuli Mian and the Food of the Valley https://qualla.com/yuli/ Photo credit 雲角, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ask for the local specialty and you will be pointed toward Yuli mian—Yuli noodles—a dish that inspires a certain gentle local pride without necessarily overwhelming visitors who expected something more dramatically different from noodles found elsewhere in Taiwan. The distinction...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/n/m/yuli-wk/wsnm-yuli-yuli-mian-and-the-food-of-the-valley.mp3 0:06 4 full Yuli: Getting Around a Valley Town https://qualla.com/yuli/ Photo credit Wei-Te Wong from Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, CC BY-SA 2.0. Yuli is a railway town, which shapes how both residents and visitors move through it. The Taiwan Railway station connects it to Hualien to the north and Taitung to the south, but the countryside around the township—the waterfalls, the hot spring, the hiking trailheads—requires a ...

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