Shan Shui Shen Resort Spa Taitung
No.73 Sinfu Road, Guanshan Town Taitung, 956, Taiwan
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Wow!
... couple hours before our departure. There is a nice coffee shop there with outdoor seating, so the wait was enjoyable. Time to leave...we walk out to our manually started propeller plane with exactly 12 seats, no door to the cockpit, barely room to sit...oh, did I mention that my seat was missing a bolt, so it wobbled instead of being attached to the floor?...haha. The flight was fun (only 15 minutes) and the view was spectacular!
We quickly found ...
Wind and waves on lovely Ludao (Green Island)
... were immediately set upon by a particularly persistent woman, who wanted us to go and take a look at her home-stay. She quoted us a price that seemed reasonable and offered to take us there on her scooter. Cathy was immediately dismissive; she hates being targeted and feels that we will be taken advantage of because we are foreign. In her defence, there have been a few times in the past, that just such a scenario has played itself out and either wasted our time or ...
Traipsing around Taitung
... cheese. Where might it be?”
‘Just follow that pathway sir, you’ll find lots of it in the caves’
Ah, the hint of Danish Blue and Venzuelan Beaver Cheese wafting on the breeze. We took some pictures and wandered around for a while, but eventually the crushing heat got to us and we decided to cool off in the frigid air conditioning provided by the Visitor Centre. Once our core temperatures had reached a more reasonable ...
Coastal Drive
... the scooter drivers ignore them completely.
Of course, we made it to the harbour where the ferry was to depart, only to find out that all ferries for the day were full. The good news was they could reserve tickets for us for a 7:30am ferry the next morning. Fortunately, the hotel in Taitung we booked for Saturday night also had room available for Friday night, so we weren't homeless.
Locating the hotel was ...
Taiwan East coast highway
After a good night of sleep I rented a motorbike (funnily I did not have to show any driving licence nor to leave any caution) to explore the East coast, going South.
I took the highway 9 running through a wide valley and vast rice fields til I got to the villages of Ruesuei and Juisui.
There I took a ...



