Rain, Fog, Ocean and Taroko

Our plans were to spend the next two days in Taroko Gorge doing a lot of hiking, but the rain put a bit of a damper on those plans, all but 4 areas of Taroko Gorge were closed. So, instead of heading straight to Taroko we bought some bus tickets and headed to the ocean.

After that beautiful excursion, we caught a bus back to Hualien, and bought some more bus tickets to visit Taroko.

The bus station that looked like a bus.

 There would be so many beautiful sights and things to see in Taroko!  As we pulled up to the parking lot I tried to turn on my camera, but it wouldn't turn on!! Not at all.  I was sooo bummed, I had planned on taking so many pictures.  I had just replaced the batteries yesterday and it had never told me that it was low.  I tried to accept the fact that it was dead and I would just have to go without my own photos and steal some from the other girls later.  I was telling Kaylee this and pounded on my on/off button many times to prove the point to her when it turned on. "Hooray!!" I thought, "it's not dead after all!" It blinked that it needed batteries and shut off once again.  By this time we were at the visitors center so I went on a hunt to buy some batteries.  I found some and they were a bit expensive, but so worth purchasing so that I could have my own photos, and share them with you!

These spiders are at least the size of my hand and are found everywhere.  And when I say everywhere, I really mean everywhere.

We had to walk through 2 very long tunnels before hiking.   Walking through the first one took at least 15 minutes.  It seemed to go on, and on, and on and...

 

Taroko day 2:

Shoot... photos maybe?

Have I ever mentioned that I love bridges? Cuz, well, I do.

The water was very, very blue.  It had to have been polluted with something.

We saw many large spiders along this trail and they helped persuade a few of the girls that it was time to turn around and head back.

Taiwan is such a beautiful country with so many different sites to see.  I may not be able to see all of while I am here, but I will do my best.   

我爱台湾!