Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Oct 29 - Hualien 花莲 (Taroko National Park - 太鲁阁)


We decided to take a motorcycle up to Taroko National Park. The traffic sign is sufficient to direct the first timer like us up to the national park.

The motor above was rented in the only motor-rental agency in Hualien that rent to non-international driving-license holder, Xiao Ma 小马 (Little Pony) which is just around the train station. Oh, by the way, it's not a motorcycle; it's a scooter. Never drive a scooter before indeed hahaha....

Half-way, the traffic was stuck in the tunnel. The road was blocked one way an hour. It's blocked to repair the landslide which happened during the typhoon few weeks before that.



Lunch at the top of the small town. And yes... you may recognize the purple rice again....


Landslide warning aplenty....

Nice little temple reachable half-way.




Muncungkan mulutmu???

The Taroko National Park HQ


The nice Sandakan-St.Michael-like church half way from Taroko back to Hualien.



Night market and feasting time!!! The famous Hualien Coffin!!!

It's yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!


The nice room we stay in. Again, it's quite cheap. It's about RM90-100 if I remember correctly.




Literally translated as The Corner Hotel

4 comments:

steph said...

hmmm....need to pull the beds together to close the gap ;-P

CK said...

no need. on one bed can already lah!!!

tat will fuel your imagination.

steph said...

...tat reali did! boy, u 2 must had so much fun - good outings, good food, good....., n good nite ;-P

steph said...

hey, i js realized the temple is reali nice!
heheh, too engrossed with the bed-thing n the word "we" before :-P
speaking of which, i only saw an "i" from ur pictures..