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| Sun Moon Lake |
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| Jade was really excited for the boat ride |
Last year
while I was in Taiwan I saw an advertisement for travel to “Sun Moon Lake”
which seemed like an awesome tourist attraction and a lot of fun. I
tried to go there but was told that it was too hard to get there and I dropped
it (sort of what you do with Asian women… don’t oppose them and if their
disagreeable, don’t look them in the eye and back out of the room
slowly). This year, however, we decided we wanted to go to Sun Moon
Lake (which wasn’t that difficult) and after a high-speed rail trip of an hour
and 2 hours on a bus we were there.
It was
cloudy when we got to the lake and after checking into our hotel we jumped on
one of the shuttle boats to the other side of the lake to go find a temple and
a pagoda that looked beautiful from the other side of the lake. On
the other side of the lake the dock was packed with Chinese tourist groups
(which I absolutely hate in Taiwan) and I thought we were in for a loud and
obnoxious tour of the temple with many Chinese tour groups in tow.
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This odd sign greeted us when we got off the
boat, ketchup and coke anyone? |
We soon
found, however, that none of the tour groups were hiking to the temple (or
where they were going because we didn’t see them again the entire
evening). We decided to start wandering a long a somewhat
forsaken (or less-traveled) road that we thought was taking us in the right
direction.
For most of the time we wondered if we were on
the right path since we didn’t see another person the entire time and parts of
the path seemed really forsaken. However, it was a beautiful little
hike where we got to see some of the interesting wildlife, learn about Bettle
Nuts, and end up at an almost empty Temple. Note to self, while
traveling, make sure to always start walking away from the Chinese tour groups and
up forsaken paths because it will give you an amazing experience and you won’t
be disturbed but the noise of all the crowds.
It seems like on my blogposts this year I am a man of few words so I’ll just use some pictures to explain anything I missed.
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| The forsaken little path |
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| Need I say more? |
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Beginning our trip, I think this is supposed to
be a monk doing an "Om " sign? |
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| Jade doing a surprisingly good imitation of the Asian monkey |
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She saw a spider and dropped the umbrella,
she does a really good sad face doesn't she? |
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| It was a really cool jungle |
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| Beautiful temple at the end of our hike |
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| Getting our fortunes! (we couldn't read them) |
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| A MASSIVE 8 inch spider that was 20 feet in the air |
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| Cool bird we saw while walking along |
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