my rants: mY t@iwaN tRiP...day 4

this morning's morning call was even earlier.. 6 am.. woah..!! Today we are leaving Taitung for Kaohsiung.. The bus ride was about 3 hours long.. The tour guide played a movie on the bus for us to watch but in no time, more than half the bus was sleeping.. zzzzz... Along the way, i managed to capture some beautiful pics of the sky and sea along the expressway..

We finally reached our first destination.. the 'Mei Non Hakka Village'.. We had our lunch there and it was not too bad.. they had a dish called 'ban tiao' which is a little like our 'kuay tiao'.. Its simple but very tasty..After lunch, we were given time to walk around the village.. This old man in the pic can make music with all kinds stuff.. like here he's juz blowing into a bottle of mineral water but he makes nice music.. He was on popular programmes such as Guess 3 and the Zhang Fei show..

After leaving the village, we made our way to Fo Kuang Shan Monestery.. They had a very big gold statue at the peak.. we had wanted to take more pics but unfortunately, we ran out of battery and the spare was on the bus.. damn.. Anyway, the temple was huge, there were lots of stairs and slopes to climb and my mum's legs were really killing her..

After tat, we went to the Spring & Autumn Pavillons where we saw the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas and the Xuan Tian Shangdi Temple.. Some parts of it are being renovated so we couldn't go in to see everything.. We also went to buy some food stuff around that area.. bought quite a lot of muah chee.. initially wanted to buy lots of 'guo dong' but its expensive so we din buy much..

On the bus, on the to dinner, we passed by an english-learning center ran by a guy called 'tony chen'.. He's a damn hilarious and weird guy who never fails to make me laugh when he is on those brainless taiwanese variety shows.. Anyway, dinner that nite was great.. We had a japanese bbq and steamboat.. For the 1st 20 min, we had a pretty waitress who helped us bbq our food but later her irritating supervisor asked her to let us try it ourselves so she left us.. boo hoo hoo.. The food was so good that we forgot about taking pics.. we juz kept eating n eating.. See my youngest bro enjoying the food..

After dinner, we went to the Sin Jiao Jiang Night Market.. I din manage to buy anything from there but my youngest bro bought a ring which is very nice.. He had wanted to buy a bracelet but my 1st bro and i told him tat his wrist is to fat n he wont look good wearing one.. haha..

We were made to report to back to the bus at 8.30 if i din remember wrongly.. But before we went up the bus, we went to get some donuts.. They were so pretty, so colourful.. My bro took a pic of the donuts without realising that he was not allowed to do so, luckily the sales asst. was not too fierce..