T-town love 2

this is what greeted us when we woke up the next morning in the golf resort.
as usual, morning breakfast buffet style (honestly, we spent all 6 days during entire trip having buffet as breakfast that i am starting to get sick of buffet and making choices)

leaving on the bus to a remote area full with greens and mountains and a small river.
it looks almost like a scene jumping out from those ancient Chinese movies.
the scenery there serves as a good back-drop.

that is just part of it. soon later, we saw a temple faraway above the hill...

now, i was so sure that there gotta be some movies that i watched before with this sceneries. like "crouching tiger hidden dragon" or prolly, "heroes"..those movies where u see ppl flying here and there, with swords, men with long flocks, waving madly in air, and then u see those "7 stars-maiden" emerging from heaven etc..

so what else..take photos la, so that i can brag "hey, that is where i went. looks normal nia that place....dunno why ppl like it as back-drop"..
then after done with camwhoring there, we decided to disturb others cam-whoring session (coz we feel our cam-whores thrones are being threaten). so..

we were sitting back-to-back with him. having Angeline's high-sensitivity to camera, we found out the boys were posing behind. spontaneously, we turned. He didnt realise it until few days later.
CANNOT

LET

THEM

SNAP

PEACEFULLY....

FORBIDDEN

next. some program which i forgot. then lunch
the Amis aborigine style..

rice stuffed in bamboo. lemang-style. but it taste alright. the gals did not finish this due to some weird unexplainable taste. i finished mine.

the shark. yeah, u heard right. we double-confirmed. i had fins before but not really the meat. the white layered part is gooey..

ZHI-BEN's hot spring. it was one of the anticipated destinations. we brought our swimming suits along, we ate pills to delay monthly-period for this. this is taken from our room. after dinner, we had to walk around.
the rule is that: not to immerse in hot spring right after meals or before meals. u gotta wait 30min after meals. but once u are in the natural hot springs, u can only do it for 15-30min. being our first, we damn shiok, stayed inside for long enuf to get us dizzy.
the whole town is based on natural hot-spring. it's kinda remote and small, nothing much to see. (town picture later, in my another camera la). except u get smoky effects every now and then. got heat-smoke coming out from longkang de okay..

we slept off straight that night. prolly coz we were too dizzy.

next, the Hakka village. blardy la, i dunno how to speak Hakka. my mandarin also cacat-ed.so how? dont talk la.."limbeh beh hiao kon"..so shut up and take photos, look like a tourist ma. compliment w my dark skin, sure they think i am from Africa, an African non-Chinese. yeah, that works.

view from the top


while we are busy doing our tourist routine. Ray is pretending to read some Chinese literature books at a nearby cafe.

most of the local taiwanese are Buddhists.

hence, we head off to the next big humongous temple.

it's so huge it's a city itself. so huge that it has a "franchise" in USA (the branch is known as Hsi Lai Temple, 西來寺). which later i found out, it spread it's branches all over the world (from Asia to Africa). the temple in taiwan is Fo Guang Shan (佛光山) <-- click to read. bombastic rite. better than Xi-Lai Xi-Lai..like housewives like that.
back to this temple. they even have schools inside that cater globally. well, we didnt meet Master Hsing Yun.

the 2 non-black-shirt boys are vegetarian devoted Buddhists. as we made our way up.

i believe Buddhist readers know wad is this. and if u are not buddhist, it's a common sight to be found in Malaysia temples. if u still dunno, blame ur ignorance la hor..

it was blardy hot alright. if i let 10min of sun exposure, i will make blacks look fair.

if u are chinese-literate, congratulation.those who dunno, in canto it's "wui tao shi on". u read frm right to left ya. note our poses. if u dont get it, blame ur own baka-ish, okay....lembab~~slow~~

the sixtet plus 1 (ray)
that day was definitely temple-day. we visited our second temple.
we had the TG screaming his lungs off "YOU HAVE TO GO IN FROM THE DRAGON'S MOUTH AND COME OUT FROM THE TIGER'S MOUTH. DON'T BLOODY HeLL GO IN FROM THE TIGER'S MOUTH. I TELL YOU ALREADY AR...DON'T ACT CLEVER YAA" (anybody reading this know y we have to follow that sequence?)

being an obedient Malaysian, of course we followed la.

IN and

THROUGH and

OUT....talaaaaaaaa

as i said, that day was temple-day. we had our third temple. 5 min from the dragon-tiger's mouth.

i was too sien ady..damn sun. damn wind. i stopped snapping away.
DINNER TIME

cook-away,slave
it was sumptuous. appetizing. half of the reason prolly is due to the walking around whole day under the hot sun. we smelled of sweats. dinner was at this air-conditioned restaurant. spilt to groups. our table-mates: Daniel (black shirt), my two girlfriends, and a couple.

BBQ style on the table and steamboat combo. we can call anything off the menu, somehow it's included in the our tour $. no more pictures la, busy stuffing ourself liaw~~
of course, being a malaysian, we ordered the most expensive stuff la..(scallops, abalone mushrooms, etc)
but our smexy Ray is the greediest of all. leftover beef, fishes, and pork. -_-

final stop of the night before settling in for shopping..the "Ai He" roughly translated "love river".

we didnt wanna waste our time beside a normal-looking river while waiting for an one-hour-boat-ride along the ordinary river.

requested to check-in hotel and get a cab, SHOPPING LOOOOO~~

no point listing out our loots here. private and confidential..


p/s: i am a Catholic. going to temples do not mean that i am a sinner, u hypocrite. it doesnt make me feel less Catholic either. sometime visiting these places expose u to others living in the same globe as u and me. respect their religion. bless ur ignorance.