Shan Shui Shen Resort Spa Taitung

Well I am finally getting around to writing this weeks blog. It was a busy weekend and I am now caught up on my sleep.

It was a pretty exciting week last week, well actually only Thursday was exciting. :) I was able to experience my first earthquake. While I was teaching on Thursday around 5:30 Taiwan had a large earthquake, 6.0. This wa...

This morning we woke up and ate breakfast at the hotel. It was an Asian style breakfast; they serve some interesting foods: rice porridge (kind of like oatmeal, but using rice instead) weird salted nuts, some kind of pickled vegetable, spam, hard boiled eggs, a bunch of salad ingredients (carrots, red cabbage, lettuce, salad dressing) steamed c...

Das erste Mal, dass ich den Pazifik erlebt habe!! Das ist wirklich ein besonderes Meer. Tiefblau, wie eine viskose blaue kristallklare Masse, mit Wasserduehen die unser Schiff ordentlich hin und her schaukelten. Bei der Ueberfahrt zur Insel pfiff uns eine steife Brise ins Gesicht und warf die Gischt hoch ueber die Rehling. Der Sehgang war so sta...

Route: Dulan: - Fugang Harbor ( by bus ) - Green Island transfer ( by boat ) - Round Green Island ( by bike ) Total Distance: 20 km biking Altitude up: 250m Altitude down: 250m My cooling system is leaking ( refer to yesterday's entry ). When I wake up at 6:00am my left arm feels cold and wet - wow, what is that? I open my eyes and see that my i...

Route: Rueisuei ( No.9 road ) - Siouguluan river white water rafting ( near parallel country road No.64 ) - Coastal road No.11 - Road No.64 by car - Rueisuei - Fuli Total distance: 25 km river rafting Now this will be a different way of transportation, not using our legs, but the arms mainly: white water rafting. Our landlady had it all arranged...

Route: Taitung - Taimali - Jinfong hotsprings - Jinluen hotsprings Total Distance: 36 km Altitude up: 300m Altitude down: 300m Once again an early wake up day: 5:15am. It all goes fast as I have already packed. I buy my breakfast from the 7-11 around the corner and then take a bus to the Taitung city border. I have walked all this basically yest...

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 doo...

Route: Heping - Duli - Amis Folk village - Donghe - Jinzun Observatorium Platform - Dulan Total Distance: 26 km Altitude up: 300m Altitude down: 300m "THE MORNING BREAKS" by Neal Moore A swim in the salt water pool of the villa, set just above the sea, and we're off the next morning, out on the open road, "making tracks" as we'd say back in S. A...

Route: Yiwan - Shihyusan - Sansiantai - Chenggong ( bigger harbor city ) - Heping Total Distance: 25 km Altitude up: 200m Altitude down: 200m For three days Neal will join me in my walk. Here he writes his view of this day. "THE FAR EAST" by Neal Moore We've just arrived along the Eastern coast of Taiwan, with a breathtaking view of the sea, thi...

Weter - WIND!/Veter! Projekt: prevozit 120 km vzhodne obale in jest limone z medom, ker nocemo zbolet po vcerajsnjem hladilniku - vse skupi se zdi itak kokr ene cist hude sanje ;). No, sam rdec skuter caka pred hotelom tko da HOP in gremo! ;) Res ni prometa in uzameva si ga na easy, se ustavljava ob 'atrakcijah' in po ene 40 km zacne FUL PIHAT -...