My second weekend in Taiwan has been pretty intense - Saturday in a hot-spring resort Beitou and Sunday at a hiking trip in Yanmingshan National Park. Well, it's still weekend, though, as my Monday Chinese classes start at 6:30 pm.
All around Beitou one can smell the peculiar sulphurous odour, which is somewhat a fragnance in comparison to the stinky tofu's aroma at night markets in the city. The public outdoor baths that we visited are located at the far end of a metro line, but still within the city. It's rather recommended to wear a swimming suit than a bikini, as the local ladies would have put on complete bathing suits, whearas us the "white women" were commented by a smiling Taiwanese old gentlemen to wear "litte clothing". The waters are very hot, so we ended up red like lobsters.
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| Beitou Library |
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| Copyrights: Rene. The author himself captured here. |
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Yanmingshan National Park is a nice hiking spot, complete with vulcanic mountains, forests of bamboo and tall grasses, view on the ocean and the basin in which Taipei is located, and its tallest peak at 1120 m. That's where we got on Sunday. At the end of the day of hiking & picknicks some people got even more lobster alike. In Chinese there is actually a more intresting expression for that: looking like a monkey's butt...
* The nicer pictures below orginate form Ania Grenda's professional photo collection.
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| In the shuttle bus around the park, I was offered a nice place, close to the driver. The Budda picture is somewhat resembling the religious symbols in many Polish cars. |
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| fot. Agathe Flichy |
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