Last day of the trip

The last day of our little trip was spent at sun moon lake. We took a boat across the lake to a temple on a small peninsula. Again there was a guide on the boat who couldnt shut up and the amount of tourists was overwhelming. When we left the dock area however, the tourgroups thined out and we could walk along the hiking trail up the mountain by our selves. It was a rather hard walk on the hot day but satisfying to get up, first to the temple and then, after one more leg on the trail, the pagoda (a kind of tower) on the top of the mountain.

The pagoda was surrounded by white gravel and made a quit stunning view. Too bad that a earthquake had made it unsafe to climb the stairs of the tower since this is said to be the best view of the whole lake. Instead me and Kai played around a bit and burried me in the gravel. Going down was less fun than going up since i never like to go back the same way and i dont like to go down, but at least it was less work than going up.

The place the boat took us to was more of a village with houses and a small market. We decided to eat street food for lunch then went to a small stage nearby to look at an aboriginee song and dance show. Very much of it was karaoke style with pre recorded music but not bad. Then the decided to teach some peoplke from the audiance a dance and of course the only foreigner was selected to take part. I realy dont like this kind of thing especially when i cant understand the language so well so i escaped when i had a chance.

After the show we walk along the water for a while but decided against taking the cable car to the top of this hill. Instead we walked out on a floating jetty to look at the fish swimming around in small enclosures. We got some fishfood and fed the fish, it was amazing what a chaos some small food pelets can create.

When we ran out of fishfood we took the boat back to the hotel side planning to rent a small row boat there. I turned out that row boat season was over and we couldnt find one so we collected our bags from the hotel then went to the bus station. Luckily a guy offered us taxi to Taichung for just 25 NT (very little) more than the bus per person. This was great since the bus takes around 2 hours but the taxi only one hour. From Taichung we then took the bus back to Hsinchu.