Our Taiwan Trip: 3rd Day

Wow... It's Christmas Day. Yupee...
After breakfast, we left Astor Hotel and made our way to the Taroko Park.


We had stayed at the Taroko Gorge (one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world) for a while to take photos. Heard from local guide Tommy that the road around Taroko was built by soldiers and these soldiers had sacrificed building the road.

Small corner on the left: If you peep closerly, you may spot our local guide, Tommy and tour leader, Jaslin.

Three happy ladies happily taking photos at Taroko.

Next, the coach had driven us to the other end of Taroko to walk the "Eternal Spring Shrine Trail".

Saw that temple in the midst of hill? This was built to remember those soldiers who sacrificed when building the road around Taroko. During one of a major earthquakes, the temple was destroyed and it was rebuilt again at its current position.

Crossing over the bridge, we will walk the "Eternal Spring Shrine Trail".

Things we saw along the trail.

Waterfall near the Shrine.

Notice that the floor is made of marble.

Bottom right: Guess whose legs & shoes?

End of trail. Back to who our coach park.
Bottom left: Li Cheng showing the "marble" basin.
Bottom right: Tricia trying to contact June and Dawn, who were in Taipei.

Next, the coach drove us across the bridge to another photo-taking place.

Before making our journey down to Taitung, Tommy had brought us to a beach. This beach was special. Instead of sand, it is filled with stones.

Tonight we overnite in Master Bear Resort. After dinner, the resort management actually organised some Christmas activities, including fireworks and Kong Min Deng. Later that night, Tommy tried to have his own concert with his karaoke singing. However, it seemed the limelight had been stolen by Jaslin. Before we retired for the night, we managed to see how people made "glutinous rice cake" and we had a share to finish it.

Having fun during the Christmas party.

Eating glutinous rice cake. Yummy...

After eating, we went back to our little bear room and little bear bed to have our snoring session.