there are dumplings on the horizon...

10.18.2011

TAIWAN PART TWO: Landscapes, skyscapes, and other scapes (but no garlic scapes)

Taiwan has been rainy. It seems even more rainy because our only mode of transport is by scooter, on which we (and all of our stuff) are regularly exposed to the elements for long hours at a time. Between downpours, generally in hazy conditions, Taiwan has some pretty unreal sights to offer. Here is a very pared down selection.



Kaohsiung


Sun protection and vines. Victorian Tarzan.


Roots scape


yup birds


Motorcycle and tank scape


Neal and Chinese tank prevention beach


Neal in tea bliss


Teletubbie tea scape on 60 stone mtn


drivin'


Mountain on rice paddy in east rift valley.


Rice scape


train on bridge on rice


maybe I should have put this one in the food related post...


Shitiping harbor


Highway 11 after it stopped raining on us


Somewhere in Lishan


Lishan (Pear Mountain)


THE Lishan high mountain tea.

The bottom of Toroko gorge.
It is marble lined and the river is the color of wet cement.


Marble cave hotspring (in Taroko) in cement colored water with Jonas, the Swede.


Ladies who convinced us to go to the hotspring.
They were on a 20 year reunion tour of Toroko.


This is the landslide that caused us to spend 2 extra days driving through the mountains back to Hualien. It was bigger than it looks.


The first wild monkey I ever did see.


More Toroko


And Toroko


Temple roof in Taipei. At this temple, you can go to pray to Buddha, Daoist gods, and Taiwan folk gods all at the same time!

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