Alishan Shermuh International Tourist Hotel Chiayi

... our pre-booking slip for the train ticket (It's advisable to book the train tickets ahead, especially if you are traveling on weekends). Anyway, instant noodle is also a delicacy in Taiwan. This was the best opportunity to try it.<br><br>10 May 2009 (Sun)<br> I had my delicious beef instant noodle as breakfast and there was real meat in it. At 9am, we were at Chiayi Train Station ...

... it up), it embraces more than 7,100 islands within it&#8217;s 300,000 sq/km land mass and is fantastically ecologically diverse. We are big fans of train travel but unfortunately that particular fondness would not be satisfied in the Philippines. The topography is so rugged; mountainous and heavily forested, that the only rail line in existence; The Philippine National Railway operates only 479 kilometers of narrow gauge line from Manila to Legazpi City including two ...

I looked the tribe up online and I think it's the Tsou Tribe http://www.tacp.gov.tw/tacpeng/ho me02_3.aspx?ID=$3101&amp;IDK=2&amp;EXEC =L About two weeks ago we went with our boss, her husband, a co-worker her husband and their daughter. We watched some dancing, went on a gorgeous walk around the land and [I don't have pictures of it] but had a gigantic lunch. The people just recently got government support for their town ...

... the whole thing [maybe some day]. Then we stopped for lunch. Wes' friend Silvia ordered food for us. There was a bambo dish, egg dish, chicken dish and pork dish. The egg dish was called "One thousand year old egg". It looked pretty weird to be egg but it tasted good. Apparently the pork in Taiwan is among the cleanest in the world. The last shot is of how it's suppose to be eating, with the piece of pork, sliver of garlic and onion. It was very good.

... baths, etc from the hot springs on the mountains. There were also indoor saunas and mud baths where you had to go naked. Also a tank where you stick your feet in and they eat all the dead skin off which really tickled. I was too much of a wuss to do it last night so I tried this morning. I also got a 50 min massage for $30 with my cousin last night. They really worked our backs ...

... a lot of vegetables and fruits are very expensive because of the last typhoon On the streets people are on scooters, bikes and in cars.. the scooter people are especially bold go by on either side of the car , both ways on the streets(wrong way and right way) some of the women had high heels on as they drove down the street.. Also many wore face masks as the air can be very bad... Tomorrow (Tues am )we leave for Taipei at 3am for our trip to Vietnam .

... Rueishuei. When we arrive at the Hongyue hotel we see that it is also from Japanese time, in better condition because it is renovated, but also less " original ". The landscape is already mountainous as we are at the lower elevations of this mountain range. We opt for the first one in Rueishuei. Just when we want to return, it begins to rain, and how it rains, as if Petrus has opened the floodgates. This is the rain we saw in form of clouds hanging over the ...

... know milk and milk products, now for sure they do. We show them my pictures of Germany. They immediatelly recognize and pick out the pictures with churches, asking whether these were churches, which I confirmed. As they are mostly Christians they can most closely relate to them. They express that the churches are very beautiful. A car stops and the driver asks how he can get to Yuli ( inner rift, town we were there last night ). I tell him that ...

... we see a very skinny dog chained to a pole in the middle of nowhere at the entrance to a field. The dog is very scared at first, but then eats the bread and cookies we have and drinks some water - hope someone will look after the dog, good luck We visit one more aboriginal village called Hsinwu when it begins to rain stronger and stronger - a real thunderstorm. We keep going and almost everything gets wet. A bus driver stops and aks if we want to go with him ...

... 29 NTD we get back to Lidao. It's a lazy afternoon with readimg, writing, walking in the village, watching tea picking ( the Pillipine lady from our homestay is also picking tea alongside another South-East Asian lady ). The kids of the village are leaving the school after the weekend activity comes to a close.They carry bags of sweets which were left over from the event. Later afternoon a young man arrives on his motorcycle. He wants to stay in ...