Thursday, June 14, 2012

Big Rotary trip around Taiwan

It's time for lot's of photos! The big trip yayaya! It was 27.5-2.6.


1st day!


















Learning aboriginal dance from the locals



Uh Paul why :D


Our trip started with driving to SanYi where we painted those wooden ducks haha. We ate lunch there and continued to Sun Moon lake. It was little rainy but we still took the cable car up. It was njah kinda boring haha. My camera didn't like the rain drops so they are in every picture I took. After that we had a boat thing on the lake we went around and some local guy told stories about the lake. Later that evening we got to taste some local tea.


2nd day!





 Over 100 years old tree


















From Sun Moon lake we headed to Tainan. On the way we stopped at old sugar factory and took  mini train there. It was... slow. We also went to a farming village in the middle of nowhere. We dyed some scarfs and painted those funny hats. Our hotel was chool haha we had elephants instead of lions! And that picture of elevator buttons, I don't know have I explained why there's no 4th or 14th floor? It's because number four sounds like a word death in chinese. This hotel though didn't have even the 13th floor don't know why haha.


3rd day!





























We first stopped at Buddha memorial center. There is the biggest outdoor buddha of the world or something like that. It was 42m high. The weather was so hot and burning. We ate japanese barbeque for lunch and continued our trip to Kaoshiung. We went to E-da theme park. The theme park was okay not really exciting and that but there was a moomin land! haha. And the haunted house was awful. It started raining really bad so we had to run and still we got soaked. Boys and some girls did this stupid sliding thing because there was so much water haha. We had the whole evening free so we went shopping to the huge mall next to our hotel. We didn't get to go to the ferris wheel on the roof of the mall.


4th day!























We drove to Kenting and went to National museum of marine biology and aquarium. It was nice haha. They had penguins! We ate lunch and those jeep cars came to get us from the restaurant. The jeep ride was amazing! We got so soaked because we went to drive in a river haha.Our next stop was go-kart or something. I love it but we got to drive only 8 minutes. And the most awaited thing from Kenting BEACH! We spent like two hours at beach. I'm not such a big fan of that but it was okay. We had barbeque for dinner and later we got to go to night market. I found flip flops big enough! Happy! 


5th day!

















We had a very painful paintball game in the morning. It was deadly hot with those clothes. And there was huge amount of mosquitoes. We drove to Taidong. It started to rain so we had to make changes to our plans. We were supposed to go biking but instead we went to a museum that was about history and aboriginals. Our hotel was a hot spring resort! And oh yea we were in a newspaper! 


6th day!



I have only two photos from this day because only thing we did was rafting and my camera is not waterproof which has been proven before. Rafting was cool and tiring. Everyone got nice sunburns haha! Mine was one of the worst once. It hurt. In the evening we had a party because it was the last evening and lot of people was going home already the next week and because it was Maggie's birthday. Fuuun. I went to sleep early though. 

7th day!






looks familiar huh?








 Morning call was super early. We went river tracing. We got wet suits and helmets and went to walk to a river. It was fun haha. We got to jump from the rocks and slide down the river like rafting without a boat. It was cool even if the water was cold and the sunburn painful.
After that was Taroko. I've been there now three times. But yea it's still beautiful. Then we still had time before our train so we went to beach. Well actually there was six of us at the beach and the rest were sleeping in the bus. The mexicans buried the germans into stones haha! We had pizza and then four hours in the train.

Then here two things for the end:

my lovely sunburn ey?

 

PENGUINS!

Baibai!