Hiking Taiwan: Mt. Jiali, camphor and the trees that fuelled the Hollywood boom (苗栗加里山 樟腦和南莊事件)

Join me as I hike the 2,220m Mt. Jiali in Miaoli and learn a little about the history of the region that once supplied more than 50 percent of the world’s camphor, enabling production of celluloid for photography and movie making, early plastics and munitions. Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hikelopedia Hike Map: (There was a problem with the GPS and it stopped half-way back and the distance is incorrect. Should read about 7km total) https://app.suunto.com/move/richardha... History sources: The Japanese Colonial State and the Dissolution of the Late Imperial Frontier Economy in Taiwan 1886-1909: Antonio C. Tavares https://www.jstor.org/stable/25075754... http://library.taiwanschoolnet.org/c0... Buy prints and canvases at: https://hikelopedia.picfair.com Follow me:   / asiahikelopedia   https://www.instagram.com/asiahikelop...