Chief Spa Hotel Taitung

Well I am finally getting around to writing this weeks blog. It was a busy weekend and I am now caught up on my sleep.

It was a pretty exciting week last week, well actually only Thursday was exciting. :) I was able to experience my first earthquake. While I was teaching on Thursday around 5:30 Taiwan had a large earthquake, 6.0. This was the largest one in 10 years. The epicenter was just 35 miles south of Taichung. It was really strange because I noticed the look on my ...

... wasn't quite what I was expecting or hoping for. It didn't seem ancient, but rather, it seemed like an imitation of what ancient cities used to be like. There were people still living in the dwellings and it was painted with vibrant blues and reds. It had an excellent location: right on the serene ocean. We along the path surrounding the village, following Olei as was customar. He lead us onto the balcony of one of the houses-picture perfect ...

... rest I venture with my bike to the Visitors Center near the domestic Airport, again not far from the harbor town. I then ride my bike the18 km around the island, now that it has cooled down a bit. I am the only one with a bike exept for an old local man, all other tourists ( mostly younger generation, students ) are on scooters , polluting the air, it's a pitty. Don't they have enough of it yet in the big cities? I choose all the quieter ...

... stay of different standard. I look a bit around and have my lunch on a bench, tuna in a can and cookies ( I am sure water is forming on your tongue imagining such culinary delights ). After a few kilometers till 31 I cannot resist to take the bus which is coming so conviently for 7 km. Who knows if there will be another bus or car. It is also the option between melting/collapsing in the midday heat ( please do not think it is a joke - I can ...

... Then a bit later we have a really more exiting time. We all see the rapids and in the middle of them the rocks in the center, just surfacing a bit from the wild splashing water. It's clear- we have to go right or left of this point. Then all efforts are pulled together and ... some paddle to the right, others to the left, which as you can imagine, cannot be a good thing. And really, we hit the previously descibed rocks right in the middle and get ...

... to fulfill four very difficult tasks in order to be able to merry 'Ruku' of the upper class: - 1. bring back an Eagle Feather ( eagle is an emissionary from heaven ) - 2. take out the tooth of a Cloud Leopard ( leopard is the soul of the earth ) - 3. bring back the baby of a Hundred Pace Snake ( guardian of the Paiwan Tribe ) - 4. bring back the brightest and most precious bead from the world of the gods among all their crystal beads If he fulfills the ...

... camping place under pine trees just beside the ocean. Now they are building right on the spot a 5-star hotel. Many people are pretty pi..off, sorry..unhappy about this. Environmetal groups say that a legally required Environmental Impact Assessment has not been done. I don't know, but it's a pitty. The only good news is that the beach is still open. We then walk up to a restaurant I still know as " Zorba Garden " and have great memories of. The place is a ...

... constraints. ] Continued by Neal: Three hundred and thirty meters above the sea and the village of Dulan (just 15k's shy of Taitung), and I sit in a cane chair at a traditional tea house, looking over the sea, and in the near distance, Green Island. Elevated just so, I'd say this is the best manifestation I've seen in a good long while of what Arthur Rimbaud called his discovery of eternity - where the sea meets the sky. Approaching 5pm and the ...

... from Germany I brought with me for such occasions and because most people have no idea about Germany. The small grave yard behind the church has several foreigner graves, one De Boers from Holland and a Steiner from Switzerland, both former priests in this church. When I go back to my room the place in front is filling up with mostly senior aboriginal ladies and a Christian sister. I estimate that there are about 40 to 50 participants, quite a ...

... pricenja postajat topleje, se vedno je pasje mraz. Nc na zemljevidih ti ne da vedet, kok visoko bos sel, mislim hudica in zakaj imajo kraji enaka imena - to je kokr da poskusava preckat Alpe s sloni - zakaj madona poznamo trikotnicke na zemljevidih - ker zgledajo kul? I guess NOT! Najbolj smesno je blo to, ker se nisva imela nad nicemer za pritozevat, saj je bila najina GOLA NEUMNOST kriva, da sva pristala, kjer sva ;) Vmes sva se ...