Kungkuan Hotel Taitung

... up taking a nap on the beach. We were all a little tired from no sleep on the bus.

After our naps we went and got ready for dinner. Guess what was on the menu....venison! :) We then decided that we would have a bonfire on the beach. For the rest of the night we sat out around a fire on the beach and drank beer. Similar to what I would have been doing in MN, minus the beach part ;) While we were out, it was so dark out you could see so many stars. I don't think I have ever ...

Jamie and I set out in search of the elusive Who bar and after some searching she decided to head back to our hostel. Unfazed I walked back with her to open the door and then set out on my own to find the Who. I walked for about a half a KM and found the bar. Once inside it was empy so I sat at the bar and ordered a Heiniken. Momenst later I was conversing with its owner, a Yank from Oregon. It turns out he is the owner of the hostel we are staying at. We had a great ...

... as owners. The couple is on their 3 weeks honeymoon in Taiwan. I do not remember to have heard that before - honeymoon in Taiwan. The man is a real genius with, I believe a sky-high IQ. He is an applied mathematition, runs his own small company selling and developing simulation ( Operation Research ) software. He hires students who can earn credits for their studies. He plays piano and wrote all the music for his wedding by himself. He has ...

... under shadow. The bus is almost punctual at 1:00pm. Ahhh - a nice cool and relaxing bus ride for 44 NTD to Dulan - so I thought, but I could not find real peace of mind. I am sitting in the first row, right behind the bus driver and so I can see how the driver is constantly rubbing his eyes and sometimes drifting dangerously over the middle line. Once, I am not sure if he was really having a second long power-nap, at least the bus continued ...

... holiday places along the way, and that is just what I can see from the road No. 9. Many villages lie hidden in some distance at the foot of the mountains right and left off the road. At 6:20pm I arrive in Fuli and walk the whole small town looking for a place to stay - here I have no information. I ask at a 7-11 and the a young female staff brings me about 500m away to a nice place - again this unbelievable friedliness. I ask and can get the ...

... find anything I would very much like to come back to his offer. In the village left of the road I ask at a church, but the person there is not very helpful and I call the number fixed to a very pretty homestay, but nobody answers. As I so walk the lanes I see a group of people around two dead mid-seized pigs removing the black bristle by scrubbing a knive over the pig's skin while a woman pours hot water over the pig. A lady who speaks some English tells me ...

Route: Taitung - Jhihben - Taitung ( mostly by bus ) Total Distance: 10 km Altitude : 0m Today I want to take it easy. At about 4:00am someone opens my door with a key. That is not funny. Before I get my thoughts arranged in my drowsy, sleepy head, the door is closed again and when I get to the door nobody is to be seen. I put the key in the door lock and the chair under the door knob and go to bed again. At 8 ...

... and jabbering, all smiles and hugs. The paper says rain for today, but I swear I just don't see it - the sky is crisp and clear at 8am and the air is cool (for now). Summer is taking shape on the odd day of our Eastern Spring, and I do believe this will be one of those fine days. This is a the start of a self-imposed three-day holiday to be to comprise trains, buses, and my Timberland hiking boots - scheduled for a 60km hike along the obscure ...

... posebnega, sam ce ne bi blo vetra bi blo prav lustno. V daljavi zagledava mesto obdano z meglo ... ja, to je to ;) U... highlight dneva je bil, da sva preckala The tropic of Cancer - jea! go 23 30"!! :) Prevec brala Julesa Verna ;) I know :) Tuneli in dez Projekt: ogledat si scenic obalo, kjer se klifi dvigajo vec kot 1000m nad morsko gladino in Takoko Gorge (ki sem ga js poimenovala DZORDZ!;), ki je Taiwanese prime attraction, je ...

... to the hotel entrance for some R&R. The cost was NT350 and it was well, well worth it. The staffs were very courteous. And as with many places in Taiwan, the place was practically empty, which was fine with me. I thoroughly enjoyed the hot springs. There were many places where you could sit or lie down and let the jet streams massage your neck, back, arms, legs, and feet. I especially like the feet massage. Afterward, you could cool off at an Olympic-size pool.