Taiwan

This picture was taken the day after we had landed in Taipei. We took a bus to taipei county and visited their famous He Ping Gong Yuan aka Peace PArk at Miao Kou(temple Mouth)






guanhong posing at Fu Guang Shan. The almighty big buddha statue. and the insignificant guanhong. This place is on a Mountain and contained relics , statues and many other religious items of Buddhism.














This is at a temple at SUn moon Lake. In the middle of the island sized lake lie two land masses. One is shaped like a moon while the other resembles the sun.
There are just so many temples around. This temple is that of Tang San Zan, the monk who travelled to India to obtain the first scriptures of buddhism in China

Still at Sun Moon Lake, on top of a mountain is this pagoda named the Benevolent mOther Pagoda. Built by President Chiang Kai shek in remembrance of his mother.







At hualien, after we finished a yacht trip to catch a glimpse of the Gigantic Blue Whale. It was full of rain again on that day. And mr willy whale evaded our exploration.






Meanwhile waiting for my photos to be uploaded and for the next world cup match to start, I shall type something down. The taiwan trip was a hugely successful and a most interesting journey I had made. Thought I was going russia? Well, I couldn't get the visa done on time but taiwan has always been my first choice. It was plenty of rain there. Even during our trekking into Alishan and Peace Park, drizzles and splatterings just kept coming at us. The planning was superb, with our accomodation and train schedules researched till the smallest details, we wasted no minute once we landed at Chiang Kai Shek Airport....