Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Hualien - Taroko National Park



After alighting from the train, we boarded a bus which took us to the Taroko National Park which has a great view of mountains and marbles. Taroko National Park is one of the six national parks of Taiwan and was named after the Taroko Gorge, the landmark gorge of the park. It spans cross the counties of Hualien, Taichung, and Nantou on the island of Taiwan. Thus, it was expected that i would be greeted primarily by rocks and mountains when we entered the area. Again, i want to re-emphasize that the photos posted are original, taken from our own cameras.

The weather at Hualien was tolerable compared to the rather hot Kaohsiung and bloody cold Taipei. It was windy but not cold. The awesome view really made the long train ride worth it. It started to drizzle in the late afternoon as we were about to depart, thankfully.




Tunnel of nine turns

Eternal Spring Shrine

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The eternal spring shine picture is very niceeeee!

Van

Ryan said...

Van - Haha... i wasn't very impressed with it when i saw it. But the picture turned out otherwise!

Sheldon Wee said...

The spring looks good for white water rafting and their bian tang is like omgwtf lah, not sui bian at all. Beats some local food I've eaten.

Ryan said...

mrsc - Hmm... i never thought of that! Water rafting... hmm... and the bian dang is really not bad!

John Matthias Lee said...

The Bian Dang ish nice, but lots of colorings~ :S

Ryan said...

biaos - Hmm... agree. But it's nice! haaa...

Sheldon Wee said...

Thats why they should not even call it a bian tang, they should call it a .. um.. what do you call a banquet in chinese? A xi jiu?

Ryan said...

mrsc - haha... trust me... wait til i show u the restaurants i went to... then u will know why it's called bian tang.