The first leg of our trip was given by Brother Lu, who comes every Friday and does sealings and temple work. After picking us up at the Tao Yuan train station, he took us high in the mountains to a beautiful dam and reservoir, which provided power for the city below. This is our other temple couple, the Seows, of Singaport, who enjoyed all the trips with us and made it possible for us to understand what was being said and going on.
Another view of this beautiful reservoir called Tsmun Reservoir. 
Next we headed for one of Chaing Kai Shek's residences and his tomb and memorial gardens. His body lies in this tomb. 
Now we head to the Lalashan National forest in the very tops of the mountains. What a gorgeous place! 
Can you believe, this tree is 2800 years old! 
Making designs in a Japanese Sand Garden in Lalashan. This garden was supposed to depict the sea and islands in it! 
We lost our picture of our hotel, but this is called a "staircase" fountain at the side of it. It is so cool here - so lush. I can see why many love to vacation here.
I guess we didn't lose our picture of the hotel after all! It was called the Ming ch National Forest Hotel!
After arriving at the hotel, we took a walk around the Japanese Gardens. Boy! the Japanese are so good at landscaping! 
Another scene of ponds and landscaping around our hotel in Ming ch Forest.
Walking on the rocks going out to an "island" in one of the ponds. Brother Lu, Sister Seow and BRother Seow! 
Just an example of how lush the forest plant life is under the trees!
This is now Wednesday July 9th. We stayed overnight and the next morning explored some more of the ancient trees and forests. This tree was sproute4d in 145 BC!
The sign signifying how old this tree is.
The ride down the mountains was hair raising! The road was so narrow and we felt like we were clinging to the edge of the sheer drop off cliffs! Brother Lu is not a slow driver!
As we got down from the mountain, we saw much agriculture and farmland. To the left of the green patch in the forefront, is rice that has been put into bundles in rows! Thanks, Brother Lu, for a wonderful time and your kindness in spending two days and a night showing us these things!
3 comments:
I love seeing picutres again!!! I will be needing more of you two though! Actually it's driving me crazy that your entry is backwards. I assume that this is because when you load the pictures in they all go to the top and in a funky order. You can fix that by clicking on each picture & dragging it down to where you want it. Just play around with it, you'll figure it out. Love you!
okay, i flipped your last entry around and moved the other stuff over to the right hand column, do you want a different template? Some more color? Let me know. Love you!
oops, i was still logged in as you. this is really Celeste. In case you have alzheimers and really think that you wrote that to yourself. just in case. it's been a long time since I've seen you. :)
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