We got back from visiting the sunny south about four day's ago, so I'm back in Taibei trying to figure out my way around.

We took the highspeed rail down south, taking us from Taibei to Gaoxiang (the equivalence of Seattle WA to Salem OR) in an hour and a half. I want one. We then took the subways and bus down to Kenting and into our little compound.

We stayed at a fujienese style compund that looked out over a cliff to the ocean.
The buildings were set up with multiple rooms arranged around different styles of shared courtyards. The details on the roofs were just beautiful. This kind of pointy roof was apparently made for VIPs.

We spent a lot of time on the beach, swimming and dipping our feet in the warm water and enjoying the sun. At night, the markets come out and the streets filled with people selling things everywhere! I learned quite a lot about Cho Dofu, pretty much the stikiest thing ever. The smell of this tofu frying smells like old full diapers and will follow you down the street, no joke. We ran to try to avoid the Cho fairly often in Kenting.

We rode the bus back up to Gaoxiang after a couple of days and walked aroun the river and looked at all of the lights. The city is being rebuilt for the 2009 world games so there are cute little light-up avatars everywhere doing jujitsu or rugby to prepare for the games, it's pretty funny.


Then home again to Taibei.

We climbed a mountain yesterday that was pretty awesome and sits about a 5 minute walk out our front door. Me and that mountain will be seeing a lot of eachother in the next few months I am fairly certain.

Anyways, I'm heading out the door to the markets to get some food for the soup Seanny is making for dinner. Zaijian for now.