The emperor's Birch root throne from afar. I had to walk into the next room to take this because it was being photo-guarded.
When the Daoists want to party they break out the puppets, firecrackers, and start lighting hell paper on fire in the streets!
It's a wonder more invaluable historical sites haven't burnt down with all the explosives, flaming lanterns, and cigarettes going around here.
Never trust an English. (this is an ATM)
Taiwan beer for Taiwan Gods.
LOOK I FOUND AN ARROWHEAD
To enter the tiger pagoda you must enter the tiger.
Decoration inside the pagoda.
Here's a Daoist warrior-god with his mount of choice.
The Buddhist god of tigers.
A Taiwanese soda bar with jars of preserved fruit. (probably mostly plum)
Here's Laura extracting a delicious non-plum fruit from her nose called sala. It looks like and tastes like strawberries but with the texture of lychee.
The tiger cliffs of Krabi.
Instead of white protective sheets, the monks use orange.
In order to indicate that the blizzard for sale has not be left out in the hot sun Dairy Queen workers will invert the product. The flavor being tested here is corn.
A hopefully fake tiger claw next to a very likely faked rhino horn.
Catgun has a great tasting mango fruit leather.
Taiwan Series!
Here's a video of the chant that goes on for an entire half inning behind the dugout of whichever team is up to bat. LET'S GO LAMIGO LAMIGO LAMIGOOO!
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