Lien Tong Hotel Hualien
No.336 Heping Road Hualien, 970, Taiwan
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Taroko is Gorges!
... bit at the visitors center waiting for our bus to come back to get us. However, we were not informed that the bus does not pick up in the same place that it drops off, so we ended up missing our bus. Luckily the visitor's center had a person who spoke English. We explained our dilemma to him (we had about 1 and a half hours to get to our hostel, collect our bags, eat lunch, and catch a train), and he called us a taxi to take to ...
Becoming the kings of water fighting
... boat pulling seven and another one that was flying by and splashing everyone. Near the end of the ride, our boat captain captured the other motor boat in a circle of rafts and everyone doused the guy. He screamed that he would get his revenge and he eventually made it back out and continued spraying everyone with his boat.
Once we got back to shore, we could see where the river met the ...
Toroko Gorge
... set off to find our hostel and explore the east coast. It was beautiful...of course. We ate peanut butter sandwiches by the ocean and we found temples and a ship in the grass. We picked up Evan from the train station later that day and hung out at our hostel. It was a really cool place. There was a one man band playing and some foreign locals stopped by so there was lots of ppl to talk to. The next day it was raining pretty hard because of ...
Hopping Across the Island
... for the symbols of a Japanese diety, and so the statues were spared the destruction which otherwise befell many temples. Near the altar, a tea service was laid out, with six seats … we assume for the deities.
After leaving the temple, we walked to the street of stonecutters to wander through shops, just to see their wares, as we weren’t really interested in shopping. Then back to hotel to read, rest, work, journal.
We went out again in evening ...
Trainin’ it
... same house with 6 people total and all go to the same university. They made us some tea and showed us some places on a map Eva had and then explained how to get to 7-11. It was really late and we hadn't eaten so we walked there for dinner.
Tomorrow to the hot springs!
Technical details
- train ticket from Pingtung to Hualien: 661 per person
- the train from Pingtung to Taitung: about 2 hours
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