Jiji and Tainan
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/10/2009 04:37 am by debziSeptember was funfilled with exploring local towns and cities. We went to Jiji on our scooters via a beautiful route, and saw mountains and palm trees and blue sky and other such wonderfulness
JiJi was eventually arrived at, and we decided to exchange our scooters for a 3 person bike. This was a LOT harder than ever imagined, but eventually after almost crashing a million times, and taiwanese people pointing and laughing at us, we could just about manage to cycle in a straight line. Visited a park full of old military machines and such like. Also saw a beautiful temple that had collapsed in an earthquake, so the roof was basically on the floor, that was pretty cool.
A different weekend we went to Tainan, the old capital of Taiwan. It was pretty awesome - very big, but thankfully all the touristy stuff was in a nice concentrated area, so we did a walking tour to see all of it. We saw temple after temple, some statues and some buildings. It was actually all very interesting! However I do think the highlight of the weekend was finding a stand that did fried cheese…..