Hualian / Tailuge

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Schedule

Where's that guy at!?

• Hong Kong - Saturday, August 23th, 22:00
• Changsha - Wednesday, August 27th, 12:20
• Taipei - Friday, September 5th, 14:15
• Bangkok - Passing Through
  
• Amsterdam - September 7th, 09:40
  

Motion Picture Cultural Village

These are the banana trees next to my apartment.
Reminds me of where I am every time I walk out of the door.



Having dinner with some friends at a Japanese restaurant in Taipei. There was a mister Donut across the street that I had to take a photograph of.














These are the photo's of our trip to Motion Picture Cultural Village!
I told you I'd become emperor of China one day~



Rainstorms here can get really heavy sometimes...


Taipei subway. You're supposed to wait behind the white line on the platform. Yes, I'm hanging over the rails for more than half a meter in order to take this photo.
Someone of the local staff tried to fine me, but I can't speak Chinese, and he couldn't speak English, so he gave up. '(^_^)'


We visited Chiang Kai-Shek Shilin Residence, but didn't make a lot of pictures.


And Yixuan was sooo tired at the end of the day.

Daoist Ritual on Fuxing road

I'm not sure what this ritual is about, but it has all the aspects of a funeral. I cannot be sure about it though. I recorded a lot of this, but I'm not sure where I can upload movies.
The last two photo's are a sad picture of Banqiao and my friend, Kerry-Ann, who studied at my university in the Netherlands last year.

National Palace Museum and Keelung Night Market

Saturday we went to the National Palace Museum, which contains a lot of treasures from China brought to Taiwan somewhere in the 1950's. On our way to Keelung we came upon a local temple which is transformed into a cinema on Saturday night. Especially in older times, when Taiwan was relatively poor, people gathered in the temple to watch films together. The other photo's are Keelung night market, which is very famous and a lot of fun to explore, however it's completely flooded with people on weekends.

Jiufen, Amanda's Photo's

Amanda's photo's feature less nature and buildings, but more people.
They also feature me jumping of the bridge and climbing upstream over the river's rocks.
I know; it's macho and brainless.

Did I mention we found a kitty cute enough to stop the French Foreign Legion?



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Jiufen

Jiufen is stunningly beautiful. While strolling the routes on the mountains we found the Shinto temple (stone pillars/lanterns) build by the Japanese during the occupation. It does not quite serve any function though, since the religion has no followers here, but at least it's a minor tourist attraction.

The big industrial building is a copperworks depleted of ... copper. But it might very well be the reason the river is orange. It's been used as a backdrop for music video's due to the industrialist fantasy atmosphere is radiates.

Another photo features lots of tombs on a hill which is dedicated to them.
I have no idea what the food exactly was. I recognised the squid though.

By the time we wanted to go back home we discovered there were no busses back to the city anymore, so we had take another city bus to Keelung, where we got on the train to Taipei.

Anyone unable to read Chinese should note my name is not on the painted love declaration.