Trip with Brother Lin Mon & Tues July 14th & 15th

I could not take a picture of the hotel where we stayed because it was inside a restaurant and didn't have an outside entrance. (I guess I could have, but what we had to walk through to get there was not very pretty.) So this was on the outside of the area around the restaurant. Our rooms were sort of like log cabins, with beds with no mattresses and only a pad of about an inch or two between us and the board! It worked fine for the short time we had to sleep!
In front of the Railroad Station at Ali Shan. We did not take the train for our tour up the mountain to get pictures of the sunrise because we were told by friends that many times you cannot see it because of the clouds. So we joined a bus tour that took us up above the clouds - where the train could not take us.
There was a mural of small tiles - millions of them, that told the story of what one could see at Ali Shan. It was on two sides of a tile street and must have been one hundred feet long on one side and fifty feet on the other.

Here's an ornate pagoda that must have taken a long time to make because of the fine sculpturing on it. It was just there in the middle of the forest!

I had to show the sign because of the wording of the "Golden Pig" story. I love the way the Chinese express themselves in English! They are trying to talk exactly like us, but I hope they don't change the many signs we see that are so charmingly and sometimes humorously put.
For some reason they called this the "Golden Pig" It looks more green to me, but definitely a pig!
Having one of those "little rests" with the Seows. I don't believe we have walked and hiked that much in years! But don't we look happy! It was really fun!
So here are the "Four Sisters". They sprouted on top of the massive tree that had been cut down! You can get a feel for how big they were by looking at their size as compared with Sister Seow.
These three trees together were called, "The Three Brothers"
Dad and I relaxing for a moment as we hiked around the Ali Shan area by our hotel. This was unbelievably lush and beautiful. In the background is a thatched roofed pavilion we walked out to and sat and watched the fish in the water and a little bird flying all around the water.
Dad and I playing with the Aborigini maniquins at a place we stopped on the way to Ali Shan
We saw so many orchards and tea plantations on the way to Ali Shan. They were beautiful themselves. Here we are with our dear friends, the Seows - the new temple couple from Singapore! If it hadn't been for their translating for us, we could not have understood a word that Brother Lin said!
Sweet Brother Lin works in the Temple with us and is a Sealer there and also a Stake Patriarch! He wanted us to see the beautiful mountain called Ali Shan and take pictures of the sunrise from the top! He is quite a photographer himself!