Chief Spa Hotel Taitung
No.1-1 WuLu Valley, Haiduan Township Taitung, 957, Taiwan
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Paradise on Earth
Despite the crazy adventure Green Island welcomed us with (including flooded roads, land slides and gaps of roads washed away to the ocean), it turned out to be heaven on earth. Without much detail, Carolyn and I made it from the west side where the ferry dropped us off to the south east side where the hot spring was. This ...
Boiled and frozen in one night
... pretty rough old beach, strewn with old trees and debris either washed down from the mountains or up from the stormy seas. The sand is black, course and really pretty miserable. Even if it were not for the vile beach itself, the whole environment is hardly enhanced by the factories that are dotted along the shore line.
On a positive note, the people are nice and friendly and the town is 30 minutes away from an Onsen ...
Jade Mountain - Take 2 - Day 3 (Part 1)
... don't know if this was a omen or not...but he was deemed harmless and ignored. Our guide was busily making breakfast in the kitchen as I set out to make sure I had everything I needed packed in my light-weight day pack. I had a suspicion that they would make congee...and...they did. *SIGH*. Congee is this bland and flavorless rice soup that they then put things into like...tofu, pickled vegetables, peanuts, pork floss and other assorted items into. I am not a fan of this breakfast ...
Jade Mountain - Take 2 - Day 2 (Part 2)
... tell them this). I ended up retelling my tragic tale of the first failed attempt at Jade Mountain and a near-failed second one. They came back with: 'would you like to join our group'?
I was thrilled. There were actually 8 members in the group (3 from Zhongli 中壢, 1 from Taoyuan city 桃園市 and 4 from Taipei 臺北) and a hired guide. Turns out I was actually at one of the check-in points: the Paiyun Visitor Center ...
Jade Mountain - Take 2 - Day 2 (Part 1)
... shed place) and told me we had arrived. Now, I wasn't born yesterday...so I knew that where he wanted to drop me off was not quite where I wanted to go. He kept asking for the money and telling me to get out of the car but I told him to hold his horses (or the best Chinese equivalent) so I could go and ask the dude in the safety vest and hard hat standing near the port-a-potties. Safety vest man confirmed my suspicions that where we ...



