Raining in Jiufen...

Raining sunday

Making taro balls

Jiufen (Keelung county)

Sweet lovers

Red bean soup and taro balls

Sand-castles Festival !

Sean, Ryan and Kathrine

I am so happy that we had this occasion to spend the last week end all together guys... my "cock...roach" roommates (Kim, Ryan and Sean) and the gangstas (Kathrine, Iris and Ryan)  !!!

Fulong bay

FIGHT !!!

 We had such a delightful sunday ... 

Sea, Sun, Beach and friends... 

what do we need more ?!

Family portrait !

Yeliuh Geopark.

Spiritual...

Monkeys' paradise is called Kenting.

Ok this was more than one month ago.. but I was so busy lately ... anyway here are some pics of our trip to Kenting !!!

Kenting is small.... really smaaaaall village in the SOUTH SOUTH of Taiwan, it's located on the seaside which is quite niiiiiiiice hehehe :)

With my baba, we planned to spend 1 night there but then we chose to stay 3 nights ... we were hiking, biking, diving, swimming... it was just REAL holidays and nothing else !!! We really enjoyed our time there, besides our hotel was so cute, and comfortable with a nice owner who drove us to the national park while we were planning to call and pay a cab !

Those photos show the funny hotels, small but clean and empty beaches and the suuuuuuuuuuunnny weather we  had ! Next post will be about the Kenting National Park (I would advice everyone to go there !!! )

Fairy's cave

Chuanfan beach

Modern Toilet.

Ok this might seems stupid but I had to do a post about it... we had diner in this crazy theme-restaurant....
I'll let the picture speak by themselves !!!! HAHAHAHA

Should we open these?

should I take off the poo?

Squatting toilets for dessert !

 

Sim's picture :)

 By the way: again we were a nice buch of european :)

- Giulia (From London, has Italian origins)
- Lenny (From Germany, has german origins ^^ )
- Kathrine (From Luxembourg, lived in Germany and has Danish origins)
- Simona (From Australia, lived in London, has german origins)
- Me (From France, lived in France, have French n' viet origins)

Secret hot springs...

Secret place...

Sunday 18 march 2012... clouds all  over the capital...

No motivation  at all...

But hopefully  Lewis saved us from a long boring
depressing day ! HAHA

So he drove us  to the Yamingshan mountains 

(lot of troubles to get there by the way ^^ !)

While it started to drizzle we walk through
the wiiiiiild forest (kiddin')

to reach this beautiful mysterious place where
the cold waterfalls meet the really warm
 water heated by the sulfuric fumaroles... 

Such an interesting place that Taiwanese
refurbished by themselves...
by setting up those smalls pools
with some volcanic rocks
...

full of *biotites* and 

solidified ashes =)

Picture from Simona :)

Hot fumaroles

Quwu used to be...

as well-known all over the world, typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan from the 6th to the 11h of august 2009 

Since it brought heavy rain, the typhoon caused a lot f damage all around the country 

such as floods, homes swept away, and thousands of landslides in the central range. 

Those pictures were taken in Quwu... 

which is nos empty because the aboriginal people who used to live there, realized that it wasn't safe anymore... all the village is movingdownward ; 

even if no one died because they did escape 
the mountains before the typhoon arrived, 
they had to move out to the plains... 
they now live in Sandimen which is safer but not 100%  
since it's located at the end of the main catchment.