Our Taiwan Trip: 5th Day

After breakfast, we head to visit Fo Kuan Shan Monastery. Since established in 1967, it has evolved from a mountain-top bamboo monastery to the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan and it is an internationally recognized site of pilgrimage. The Great Buddha land has an Amitabha Buddha statue standing 120ft tall and is surrounded by 480 small statues. Here, we experienced the tremor from the earthquake again. But it only lasted few seconds. And this was the last that we experienced for the rest of our trip.


Next, head to Mei-Nong Village, the hometown of paper umbrellas and Hakka culture. In this town steeped in history and culture, you will see many charming traditional houses.


Li Cheng with our tour guide

Next, as we had lots of time, the local guide dropped us at a park in Kaohsiung to rest and relax.



Finally, we headed for our dinner. Hungry... hungry... Food, here we come.
But before we could get to our food, we had to cross a river to Cijin.
Oh no, before we could get to the boat to cross the river for our food, we were stopped by a few students (should be, even though some dun look like students) to take a group photo. Since we were asked to be models, so we gave face and posed for the photoshoot. See how happy we looked. ;)


1st photo: The boat takes motorcyclists as well. This is an unusual scene.
2nd photo: We finally got onto the boat. Tricia's posing for photoshoot.

1st photo: Before we got onto the boat, we din forget to pose for photoshoot.
2nd photo: Our boat were leaving the pier. This is how the pier looks like.

1st photo: Finally, we reached Cijin.
2nd photo: See what we found at Cijin. It's a pig happily wandering in its garden.

1st photo: See what Li Cheng spotted. It's a cake in pig shape. Cute!!!
2nd photo: A photo taken by Li Cheng from the boat on way back to mainland.

After dinner, we had headed back to our hotel. What a long day!!!