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This day in my hometown, Taitung, mom took John and I for a day trip with dad’s car. We drove to the mountain ridges of east coast first, then made our way to Hongye where we visited the Hongye Little League baseball museum, before we made our way to Quan San for an unforgettable bike ride.

Taitung hasn’t changed too much since I left. Being in the country side between Pacific Ocean and Eastern Rift Valley, it is where mountainous topography made mass transit difficult to develop. It is more difficult for big developers and industries to come to Taiung, and as a result, it is the most pristine, unspoiled land left in Taiwan.

Yes, there is a town center where all the hustle and bustle is, but everytime I go back, I always love visiting the country side — it’s where the beauty of the region awaits me.

Little farm houses, nice people that would invite you into their homes for tea, roosters roaming around, mountain goats running lose, coconut trees, beetle nut trees, butterflies dancing admist spring blossome, and the mountain ridges that I see in my dreams…

I’ll let pictures tell the story…

I wish that truck wasn’t there!

The root of this flowering plant makes awesome herb tea!

The only thing that was inperfect about the day was that it was cloudy. If it was a sunny day, we would have seen the mountain ridges a lot clearer, and the ocean a lot more blue. The ricefield would have looked a lot more lively too if the sun was out. Nonetheless, it was a great day-trip.

I felt like a tourist taking many pictures of things that I was accomstumed to see on a daily basis when I was little. Kinda funny.

Posted on April 20th, 2008 under John, Travel • RSS 2.0 feed • You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed