Saturday, December 03, 2005

2005 09 15 ~ 17 Midland of Taiwan [Part IV]

Time:2005.09.16 PM 4:15

As time goes by, it waits for no man. We began our trip right away to the parking lot. First, we searched for the sign to Swei-Li, trying to find out how it looks like and how it become a famous kiln.

Fortunately, we didn't get lost and got our destination with in ten minutes. After we parked the car, it make me feel something wrong~ How come there's no people on the road? We expected that there will be a lot of people here~ We walked and walked and walked, the shops along the road were closed. Anyway, it's not so strange, it's not a holiday. Finally, we saw some stores were open near the main gate to the kiln. However, under the shining sun, we only noticed the ice bar sold beside the gate. At first, we thought we could go inside and enjoy our time at will, but we were wrong. We will need to pay to enter the park. The entrance fee were too expensive, and it's only for visiting. If we expected to make a pottery on our own, it will take extra charge. Therefore, we decided to take some pictures only. Taking photos won't cost a cent...









Then, we turned around and leave this place. The next stop will be the Town Chi-Chi.

See the pictures? This is the old locomotive in Chi-Chi. It's hard to find parking spaces here~ Anyway, we find a place to park the car, although it's not a real safe place... Seems like we were late here. There's a small market here, but the sales are packing their stuff and getting closed. They really close their shop early.

We took some time to look around, there's nothing interesting here. However, we found this shop. To say it's a shop, I'd rather say it's a museum, which will show some special things in the world. Outside the museum, there's a huge king-kong. We took pictures with it one by one.



I have to say, Lee, you are the winner! You look just the same as the king-kong!

After that, we decided to rent a bike. This is a bike which allows three of us to ride together. It's hard to control the bike, pretty different than those which designed for one. It's a great fun to ride this kind of bike, but it looked very stupid. Also, it is much more tiresome than bikes for one. Riding this bike is really a great experience. Soon, the sun fell down and it's time to have our dinner. There is nothing special here, so we only ate some noodles, then begin our trip to go back to Sun-Moon lake, planning to see the firework show.

The bad thing happened. There are not many cars in the afternoon, but it's crowded now. Maybe it's Friday, people finished their work and came here at the same time. After we found a parking space and parked the car, we heard the sound of music. The performer on the stage asked everyone to move their body with him. They played a couple of games, nothing big deal. To me, I learned something such as Shaows is the smallest clan in Taiwan. There are only about a few hundreds of Shaow people now in the world. Anyway, these are not important. The warmhearted Shaow people had already gave us a warm night. As watching their show, I feel relaxed and enjoy the great time with them. When the firework time coming, we walked to the deck. Wow, it is already full of people. It is real beautiful. The firework moved my heart, made me think about the past, and the future. The last time I see firework show is on my graduation ceremony. Each time gave me different feelings. Both are unforgettable.































After the firework, we walked with the fastest way to go home. We didn't want to get stock by the traffic jam. However, we didn't make it. We drove and drove and drove, then we got back to Lee's home.

It is a great day, I feel just great! Although we didn't enter some specific places to look around, and we've been kind of hurry, it's great! Maybe next time, we need to make our plan more clear. Find out where to go and how to get there. This trip is so casual that I get a lot of fun and ease. Can't deny I'm relaxed then.

ps Part V(Final) It's coming, hold on!

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