Taiwan Itinerary At a Glance: Day 3

First destination of the day was Taroko Gorge (太鲁阁).

We took a 20 minute walk along one of the trails, Tunnel of Nine Turns (九曲洞).

A rock that looks like Fish jumping upstream (鱼跃龙门).

Then at another spot, we walk across a bridge, went through a long trail before finally reaching the Eternal Spring Shrine (长春祠). The shrine is made from white marble from the gorge.

Took another photo at the entrance of to the gorge.

After this, we were brought to a place called 蒲园 to look at Lingzhi and deer foetus. SG bought some Lingzhi here.

Then it was lunch at a restaurant near the Ah Mei tribe performance yesterday. After lunch, there was a tour of the jade and marble factory just beside and also the jewellery shop.

A statue of the 12 animals made from the marble.

And inside of the jewellery shop, which sells a lot of jade stuff.

It was another 2 ~ 3 hours of bus journey before we finally arrived at the hot spring hotel at Zhi Ben (知本). We had our dinner, rested for a while before going for the hot spring. The place was very much like a swimming pool. Not the kind of hot spring that I thought, i.e. a natural open area with all the rocks and stones surrounding, hehe... Nonetheless, I felt refreshed after the session.

And the hot spring could be used to boil eggs.

After going to the hot spring, XH suggested to go for supper in a small eatery nearby. This time a bigger group went, like 9 of us. Ordered a lot of food and beer. There was also a coin-operated karaoke machine here. All of us sang a few songs.