Sunday, January 3, 2010

chasing sheep

so the main reason why i loved studying abroad in taiwan was that i was always fed really really well on our EAP field trips... this time, we went to CingJing Farms and HeHuan Mountains near central taiwan.

our box filled with breakfast goodies... i love carbs

our first stop was a restaurant... score!

i don't really remember why i took a pix of this...

foooooddd!!!


deep fried sweet potaters

juice with fish egg-like jelly...

maybe it was grass jelly...

this tree was outside the restaurant... the stump looks crazy ridiculous!

CINGJING FARMS

so many windmills here...

trying to be artsy... isn't working?


cing jing rock

castle?


sheep shearing show that we missed

rolling hills...so perty


i almost stole this lil guy


looks tasty!


they were all over the place






i try...





aren't i precious?






a fortress??

yes.. there are cars in taiwan as well... actaully i took this pix because of the welcome sign :)

CingJing had 3 smaller farms.... green green grassland

pastureland?







kare bear and i stumbled across a cute lil garden

:)

is it working now?

so colorful and peaceful!!! and i spot another windmill!




big mouth sheep! windmill!



flower windmill

back at the tourist center ... karen and i walked half an hour along a freeway getting back here

so cute! i was tempted to snag this as well...

charlie brown's christmas tree

yunnan sausages...mmm

we stayed at this motel for the night :)

where leedia, kare bear, and i caused our mischief for the night ...

kare bear was a bit exhausted... i guess she also claimed her bed

din din!

this place was so adorable... very European-esque

hot pot!!! fave

so this region of Taiwan is heavily influenced by rural European scenery... we woke up to this landscape... soooo pretty

i also really liked the look of the layering mountains... so i took a lot of these pixes. many of these pixes will look very similar :) but i took them all at different angles and places



in thee cabin-like dining area of our motel


some random house we passed by on our way to HeHuan Mountains





the beginning of our hike... the limo that brought us up

the first 3 minutes of our hike was the most intense



heheheheh... we all followed the "follow me" sign, shown on the bottom right corner of this picture

still following

mountain layers!








just keep swimming...swimming swimming....





hot stuff karen :)




a rest area

it was really sunny for a day in december


we were above the clouds :O



stopping to take some pixes




clouds

clouds...from another angle






??? is this a rocket launcher?




we made it to the tippy tippy top!



3416m up!

a well deserved break




ummm.... plants that grow on the mountain

so peaceful...waiting for everyone to come back down the mountain


on our way back to taipei... stop for food... i wasn't kidding about being fed well

mmmm

bamboo shoots w/ other veggies

so cute!

then we stopped at the taipei beer factory... which is really close to sun moon lake..

alcohol kegs lining the entrance


yup definitely tried that...

taro alcoholic popsicle = awesomeness! i would have brought one back for pu bear but it would have melted fsho!

is there vodka in there?

and then.. it was time to go back to the city and study for my finals :/