A Taoist Temple

A Taoist Temple
The Taoist temple just down the road from where I live, here in Feng Yuan, Taiwan

Kenting Beach!

Kenting Beach!
Me heading into the beautiful South China Sea

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Kenting 2

Saturday-Monday, June 4-6 (Dragon Boat Festival), 2011

So Jenny came up to me and said, "For Dragon Boat Festival we're thinking of going to Kenting." My immediate response, "YES!"

Betsy, Charlene, Jenny, Kailey, Sunny, Shantelle, and I took the High Speed Rail and got to Kenting in the afternoon. Betsy had arranged surfing lessons for her, Shantelle and me. So our instructor picked us up from our hostel and we headed off to the East side of the Kenting area.

After about an hour my arms, sadly, ran out of any energy thus leaving me with time to take pics of the beautiful beach and Betsy and Shantelle (who actually work out and lasted about 40 more min.).

To the right you can see the cliff where, during my previous Kenting adventure, we saw the sunrise.
Beach we went surfing!
Katy's shadow


The creepy tunnel you took to get to the beach . . .

Creepy beach tunnel
Unknown local


If you look really closely you can see 3 people surfing.
Betsy catching a wave, Shantelle and surf instructor getting back on their boards to catch the next wave



I'm still not used to taking self pics. and you can see just how exhausted I was . . . but I needed proof that I was there ;)
Surfed-out Katy


Further proof

Betsy and Surfboard


Katy and Surfboard


Shantelle and Surfboard



On the way back to our hostel we watched a beautiful sunset!



That night we went to Kenting Main St. where they have the night market and I, having not eaten much that day was in real need of real food, so I went to dinner and then Betsy, Shantelle and I went to a club.

The next day Shantelle and I slept in then went back to Main to get breakfast and an impromptu foot massage! We tried to meet up with the others, but just ended up chilln' at the beach for a while.




Shantelle in her beautiful new dress as the subjected to me trying to figure out how to use my camera in the dark.
I wasn't very successful as you can see in this pic.
Me, Air particles I didn't want to know I was breathing in that whole time, and the surf!


Then followed a game of spot the crab.
These creepy things are everywhere



We eventually met up with the rest at the hostel where they brought amazing dumplings, from the night market, for dinner.
Later we went back to the beach to see the luminescent . . . krill? Whatever they were they glowed in the dark when they were agitated, but only for a second, so no pictures :(

Then next morning Jenny, Betsy and I went to a coral beach and fortuitously saw a place to rent snorkeling gear so for 100NT (3USD) we got a mask an flippers and went snorkeling!

Finally it was time to turn in our gear and the scooters we rented.

I finally got the pic I had been meaning to take with the cool green retro looking scooter I rented . . . sadly I wasn't gutsy enough to go up the it after we had turned it back in . . .

Me trying to be inconspicuous with my previously rented scooter . . .


All in all, Kenting is always awesome~!~

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