this is my favourite leg of the trip - there was everything to love about it. the weather, the scenery and the blessing we received.
goofing around at the Tai Chung rail while waiting to set of to Chia Yi 嘉义
From Chia Yi, we had to transfer to the Alishan Rail - which is one of the only 2 trains that climbs mountain, or so they claim.
The whole journey up to Alishan last up to 3hours but the scenery up was a good prelude to what we were going to experience later on.
this has got to be the most precious group photo with a whole big story behind it. in short, the people who took the picture for us, became the people with whom we toured alishan with and later on offered us their place in taipei to stay in. 叶爸妈 and 林爸妈 are really our Godsent blessings, making our trip to taiwan more beautiful and meaningful.
and the train climbed on for the next 3 hours, and we got higher and colder.
finally at Alishan, which was around 2500m above sealevel.
and at 15 degrees. WHOOHOOO. escape from the summer heat....everything gets prettier from here, at night we went for our hunt for fireflies.
the glow in pitch darkness
the firefly...exposed.and the entire sky of stars. it was exceptionally beautiful especially for city kids like us and the Hongkongers where our brightly lit city robbed us of such a beautiful night sky.
but we still had to get back to the hotel to catch whatever sleep we could till 4.30am the next morning when we had to wake up to catch the sunrise at 玉山. Thank God for korean technology, we had 'heatable beds' to keep us warm throughout the night, although i woke up at one point thinking i was about to become barbecued pork.
Alishan's really beautiful, hopefully there will be a chance to return during the season of the cherry blossoms or we can go up the central highway to the mountain that snows. 比冰箱还冷哦！(thats what this driver / tour guide likes to tell us) but im sure its going to be a heck of an experience.
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