Friday, November 14, 2008

A trip down south

I'm in the southeastern part of Taiwan right now... Taidong to be exact. Aboriginal territory. It's part of a company trip. We did a nice 12-km bike ride through some beautiful countryside today, and now it's the evening, and I'm about to enjoy a soak in the hotsprings. Thankfully there's an Internet room at the hotel!

The first thing we did after our six-hour train ride to Taidong was to eat lunch in Guanshan. This was followed by a 12k bike ride around beautiful rice fields. Here's a lovely scene of a rice field, framed by Bougainvillea:



Later on in the bike trip we saw some water buffalo by the river:


Afterwards we went to a farm. It was kind of boring...not much to see. But I liked this scene...it looks like it could be in America, what with rolls of hay and wide open grassland.