Sun Moon Lake!

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Alexandra (Alex) Liu and I treated ourselves to a birthday day-cation at Sun Moon Lake in Nantou.

When we got there the lake was covered with fog and, while most people would be bummed, I was delighted! It was to perfect temperature and the fog . . . mist sounds better . . . was beautiful! (and of course no sun is always a good thing for me;)

However, due to the fog no boats could go out . . .

Sun Moon Lake is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So we headed to the aboriginal village.

We took cable cars into the mist . . . at points you couldn't even see the mountains . . . it was so great!

The aboriginals seem to be more related to the Polynesians than Chinese.

Again, Beautiful!!!!!!!!!

Ok, cheesy tourist moment ;)

Katy

I don't really know what the significance of this is, but you know me and architecture.

Katy

This is one of the roller-coasters I went on . . . we got wet! The other one I went on was crazy fast! I forgot just how fun they are ;)

The fog/mist dissipated so Alex and I headed to went to catch a boat across the lake and ran into a group who wanted us to take their picture, so we had them take ours!

Katy, Alex

While we were too late to catch our package boat, we got a great deal with another boat and it included a stop off at the island in the lake

Katy

Alex

Katy

Now just enjoy the beauty of the lake at sunset

ctrl-click on a pic to see it full size!

Before heading home we grabbed some dinner: from the left, around Rice, veggies, deep-fried-whole shrimp, soup, veggies, deep-fried-whole fish with ginger, rice, and (in the middle) wild boar with skin (my favorite!).

Yes, I ate that ;)

I had an awesome Taiwanese pineapple smoothy

Alex had a fabulous Taiwan-style passion friut smoothy!

I couldn't figure out why it wasn't otopT, then I finally figured it out . . . like today . . . ;)

It was a wonderful day filled with serendipity!!!! From Having to go to the aboriginal village first, and catching the last cable car back (both times), to getting a boat at the perfect time for the sun-set, and having a great friend to experience it all with!