Raknus Selu Trail’s New International Friendship Trail: Australia’s Bibbulmun Track


Gu Show-faye, Minister of the Hakka Affairs Council, visited Hsinchu’s Beipu Township Office on November 19 to witness, alongside the Taiwan Raknus Selu Trail Association, the signing ceremony of an International Friendship Trail Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Taiwan’s Raknus Selu Trail and Australia’s Bibbulmun Track. Minister Gu stated that a MOU has already been signed with Korea’s Jeju Olle Trail in the past. It is a delight to see the establishment of a partnership between trails in Taiwan and Australia. This moment certainly merits to be recorded for posterity by historians.
Minister Gu especially thanked the Taiwan Thousand Miles Trail Association (TMI Trail) for their trail survey work to global marketing efforts they’ve carried out from 2017 until today. She is also grateful to all city and county governments, township offices, partner clubs and associations, and Taiwan Raknus Selu Trail Association Chair Peng Hung-yuan for their tireless endeavor to make this achievement possible. Numerous institutions have joined hands to cultivate Hakka villages across the years: the Raknus Selu Trail is the gradual fruit of a major policy fueled by national resources, as well as a stunning route that connects Taiwan to the world. It is hoped that this will inspire more global friends to thus bond with Taiwan and by extension Hakka culture.