Yesterday, Wes and I took a day-trip to Pinglin. Pinglin is about an hour outside of Taipei, and it's most famous for its tea plantations and the river that is swimmable. We took the MRT to Xindian and had to wait for a bus to Pinglin. During our wait, I saw some beautiful things:
When we arrived in Pinglin, we checked out the tea museum and had lunch in a beautiful garden. We spent most of the day hiking up and down stairs, on typical Taiwanese hiking trails: paved and up and down steep stairs. The weather was great and we had a fun day.
In the town of Pinglin.
This is a beautiful butterfly I saw in the garden at the tea museum. All day long we were surrounded by butterflies that we so amazingly different from one another. We realized why they call Taiwan, Butterfly Island.
This was a great banana tree that marked the start of our hike around Pinglin and it's tea plantations.
The trail started with a steep climb up to this enormous statue.
This moth (assuming its a moth) had 4 wings. I've never seen anything like it.
Even though the trail was paved, the jungle around you is still so dense. It's really wonderful.
This was a really random find, and a home to 2 singing frogs. Behind the bathtub are rows and rows of tea.
Wes found a really great toad.
This tree was really big. I've never seen anything like it up close before.
This grasshopper was alive and just sitting under water. It was really strange.
I suppose it's easier to gather your vegetables this way. It gave me a great idea for my vegetable garden that I am going to have when we move back to Portland.
Here is Wes feeding the fish. The fish were really incredible to watch. When they turn, their sides are such a bright silver color that it is like a flash of light.
Alas, back where we started at the tea museum.
When we arrived in Pinglin, we checked out the tea museum and had lunch in a beautiful garden. We spent most of the day hiking up and down stairs, on typical Taiwanese hiking trails: paved and up and down steep stairs. The weather was great and we had a fun day.
In the town of Pinglin.
This is a beautiful butterfly I saw in the garden at the tea museum. All day long we were surrounded by butterflies that we so amazingly different from one another. We realized why they call Taiwan, Butterfly Island.
This was a great banana tree that marked the start of our hike around Pinglin and it's tea plantations.
The trail started with a steep climb up to this enormous statue.
This moth (assuming its a moth) had 4 wings. I've never seen anything like it.
Even though the trail was paved, the jungle around you is still so dense. It's really wonderful.
This was a really random find, and a home to 2 singing frogs. Behind the bathtub are rows and rows of tea.
Wes found a really great toad.
This tree was really big. I've never seen anything like it up close before.
This grasshopper was alive and just sitting under water. It was really strange.
I suppose it's easier to gather your vegetables this way. It gave me a great idea for my vegetable garden that I am going to have when we move back to Portland.
Here is Wes feeding the fish. The fish were really incredible to watch. When they turn, their sides are such a bright silver color that it is like a flash of light.
Alas, back where we started at the tea museum.
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I am so jealous of all the cool things you guys are doing and seeing! Thanks for taking the time to put up pictures and tell us about them -- it would be hard to describe so many of the things you are seeing with just words.
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