Leader Village Taroko Hualien

... the Taiwanese watched a video. I am hoping that the instructors just explained it to them. We then found out that we would not have a guide in our raft with us. There would be a couple "lifeguards" in motorized rafts going down the river that would act as our guides. This meant that if we were going towards rocks they would ram their boat into ours and push us in the right direction. This would have been sort of OK if we weren't straddling the outside of the boat. We had ...

... anyway. From a distance, it looked like this grand Arabian or Tibetan palace and not like a monastery at all. To be perfectly honest, it seems wrong that a buddhist temple is this grand, it is suppose to be about modesty and the letting go material possessions. Sometimes I don't understand these buddhists. Unfortunately, we arrived a bit too early at 7:45 and they don't open to the public until 8am after morning prayer. We went across the road to the park ...

... past, some people have taken photos of us. We're getting used to being 'papped' and usually just say hello and smile ! Coming from London it's still a bit odd to me, London's such a melting pot that no-one looks out of place, plus there's some kind of un-written rule in Britain about not staring, or even making eye-contact. It seems like people live their lives more openly and at street level here than in the west, as we walked around ...

... forget about leaving. *Yulan Agricultural Leisure Area �gYulan tea�h is the flagship tea in Yilan area. The producing region is located at Yulan village in Datong Township. The tea not only has special fragrance but you can also use it to make special tea meals which induce people�fs appetite. There is tea jello, tea baked eggs�cetc, they are so delicious; which will make you drool and ...

... area, Muzai kiln, pier, show place for raining days...etc. Various kinds of facilities demonstrate rich and diverse folk customs. You can enjoy your lunch at the Traditional Snack street inside of the Center of Traditional Art, tasting the authentic Yilan cuisine. 14:20~14:40--One of eight greatest views in Yilan "Plum Blossom Lake" The lake is around 200.000 square ...

... do viru velkomesta. V autobuse jsem stala a tak jsem zkoumala, jestli maji Tchajwanci chlupate ruce. No nemaji. Az na jednoho chlapika byli vsichni uplne holi. Musim rict, ze i presto, ze si ruce holim, jsem mezi nimi jak orangutan. Zajimalo by mne, jestli maji treba chlapy chlupate hrudniky. To ale asi pozorovanim v busu nezjistim, to bych na to musela jit trochu odjinud... Take je zvlastni, jake maji vsichni rovne hrebikovite vlasy. Mne se libi ...

... Je to tezke. Vsechno zdejsi jidlo je pomerne exoticke, asi mi to nedela dobre. Nase pi. uc. se jmenuje Zhang Meiling a je velmi srdecna. Obzvlaste srdecne se smeje, kdyz neco cteme. Naprosto ji chapu. Kdo se nekdy setkal s tonovymi jazyky, tak urcite vi, jaky je to mazec... Dnes jsme zbyli ve tride jen ja a Thajec, protoze Daniel s Janem sli na prohlidku k doktorovi. To je neco, co musi absolvovat studenti, kteri zde maji ...

Route: Walk through Hualien Total Distance: 20 km Altitude: 150m What a lousy night of sleep. Something bites me most part of the night, but I can't find a mosquito, at least not a normal seized one. I check my bed for flees ( my own ones from the train or from the hostel ) and there are really some tiny tiny spots ( I hadn't seen them at first without my eye glasses ) on the totally white linen. I brush over it several ...

... tree cut by the Park and shows us the deep holes in it made as nests by the woodpecker bird. [ Please let me add a fact about Mr. Huang, a situation which I find very unfair. Mr. Huang has been the Chief of public works construction when in April 2005 one person was killed and 8 person were injured by falling rocks at the Wenshan hotspring. He later became director of the Lushuei National Park Center. The families went to court to claim compensation ...