Red Garden Resort Pingtung

... Main Strip. The rooms are not as large as traditional motel rooms. However, the rooms provide you with a magnificent view of the ocean. Generally, life in Taiwan is pretty fast paced and can be crazy at times dealing with the traffic and mopeds racing all over the place. If you get the chance to go to Kenting, I highly recommend it. In my personal opinion Kenting not as beautiful as the Bahamas or Hawaii ...

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The next day we headed north along the West coast. We stopped along the way at a coffee shop cum truck parked next to a cove under some pine trees. It was a very pretty spot to relax and have a drink. Further down we found a long stone/sand beach with jetties and coastal armor. The surf was rolling in, but the water was a bit polluted and we were trying to reach a famous mountain so we kept on going.

We turned inland after an hour or so on the freeway and headed ...

And so we rise once more. 7:00 am this morning so that we have enough time to eat our American Style breakfast AND pack our bags. I decide that today would be a great day to wear a dress, so I do; I love dresses. It takes me about 20 minutes to pack my bag since I didn't feel like wearing tennis shoes - and I brought two pairs on our little trip. Once all four girls in our room were done packing and getting ready, we ventured downstairs to ...

We called it an early night, so we managed to get up early. Friday night when we were winding down from the bar, we had a couple drinks on come steps across from our hostel. By Sunday morning we realized that it was a Temple. I don't seem to be having the best of luck with Temples. After our photos of shame we headed to the beach. This time we tried SeaDoing. We got to spend a half hour zipping around in the ocean. It was very cool! We checked out a Thai Place for lunch, it was fantastic ...

... Dells. The city was initially created due to its beautiful beach and crystal-clear water. The weather is quite warm year-round due to its southern location. As the years passed and word started to spread about this location around the island, more and more people started coming to visit... which if we know the Wisconsin Dells, can only mean one thing: cheap shopping and tourist gimmicks. There is definitely no shortage of those in Kenting. However, it ...

... to compact the alluvial sediments. Land surface has dropped by around 10 feet in 50 years. Over time, the subsidence has caused this house (and others like it) to flood during the rainy season, so the homeowners continued to fill in the front yard with excess dirt and raised the floor inside the house. Eventually the inside of the house became unusable and the house was abandoned. Standing on the front porch of the small house and looking forward I see what looks like a levee (or ...

... to check out a few hotels. Good thing we did since we found this really beautiful hotel across the street from the beach for only $25 our first night. So what if it didnt have a window. We did move to a room with a window the next night for $12 more per night. What a deal! We ended up driving around Kenting and stopped by some scenic areas with green rice ...

... the entire time.. We're soooo proud of her!! We are also eating strict vegetarian meals until after the funeral in honor of Ah-Ma. So we go back everyday twice a day for these rituals and prayers. Jack and I are both participating in these ceremonies and we are really glad to be here despite the long travel and lack of time to prepare for such trip! We are especially glad that ...

... nur so wimmelte: Korallenriffe mit Clownfischen und Annemonen, daneben ekelige Moraenen, meterlange Algenstraenge, Haifische, etc. Auch die Beluga-Show fehlte nicht (die armen Tierchen...) aber was mir komischerweise ganz besonders in Erinnerung geblieben ist, sind die Schlammhuepfer, die ich zum ersten mal life habe huepfen sehen. Als sich dann das Jahr dem Abend neigte wurde es typisch Taiwanesisch rapellvoll und trubelig, richtiges Sylvesterfeeling also ...

... scooter (see video). I've noticed that there is a real sense of family and community here, perhaps in the way that America once used to be when immigrant families pooled their resources in an attempt to help out their own kind. (Of course this being Taiwan, everyone is of the same kind). It seems that eventually this sense of community largely dissipated in our culture (at least in the large cities), and most people in America seem to be on their own. I ...