With the four day holiday George and I decided to head to Hualien for a few days to get away from the rather overwhelming city life of Taipei. So on Wednesday night we got some takeaway pizza, drinks and a movie and settled in to start our holiday, what a great start it was! We had to get up at 6 to catch the train by 7:30 which we just managed to do in time. Then we were all set for Hualien. By the time we arrived it was 11:00 and we bumped into Matt Adam, Rene and George who also had the same idea as we had. So we had lunch together, rented a scooter and found our hotel.
When we got to our hotel it was raining and we were exhausted so we had a lazy afternoon until the evening where we met Georges' army friend at the bay side area. We looked around the night market and chatted. The latter half of the evening was spent drinking beer and relaxing.
We got up early the next day and headed to the beach. It was great there and we just hung out taking in some of the fresh air and sun. We had lunch at a nice place which boasted a selection of goat milk products. It was a great restaurant and right on the sea front. Beautiful! Then we drove to Taroko National Park. I've always liked it there and this time didn't fail to impress either. We took the famous trail in search of the elusive 'Cave of Water Curtain'. I assumed it was a waterfall, although we came across many apparently none were the great cave of water curtain. We had to head back early as it was getting dark. So we headed back into town for dinner.
We lined up two hours, that's right, two hours for the famous oyster omelet. It was good but hardly worth the wait, what is? Then we met Matt and Adam for some drinks in a local bar. The live band was quite good pumping out some rock classics but i was exhausted and we decided to call it a night quite early.
The next day we planned to go to Ocean Park, however, we got up too late and decided to take it easy instead. We headed to a brunch place called Country Mother and had a great brunch there. For there we headed to Carp Lake where we decided to rent a pedalo and paddle around the lake. It was tough going in the heat and we both later regretted our rash decision. By then it was almost time to catch our train so we headed back into town to get some famous Wontons and then on the train back home.
Saturday night was spent at Noah's faying farewell to Anji. It was a great way to end what was a fantastic holiday. I just wish it was longer! Great scenery, great food and drink, great company, great holiday!!
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