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So ends another trip to Taiwan. I was there for just 4 days. I promise I’ll update pictures and more details this week. As of now - I’m so swamped I barely have time to breath. Sigh.

I promise it’d be good - Taroko Gorge in Taroko National Park is really pretty! Wait for it…

By the way, I’ll be publishing all my pictures from now on in Facebook as it’s the most convenient way for me to update pictures (direct upload from iPhoto), so if you don’t have an account already, go sign up!

Ali Shan, Taiwan - It was about 6 hours after landing in Taipei (I landed at about 6pm) that I boarded a night bus to southern Taiwan for a 3-day road trip to Ali Shan. And boy, was it luxurious! Each row had only 2 seats (as opposed to the 3-seat-per-row VIP bus we have in southeast asia), and each seat had a LCD monitor with TV and nintendo games! Ooh all my childhood favourites - Balloon fight, Mappy, Tank 1940, Bomberman, etc. Plus, back vibrating massage! Beat that, heh.

We got off at a little town called Chiayi, about 80km west of Ali Shan, rented a little scooter (125cc) with my provisional 2B Singaporean license (haha!) and zoomed up a beautiful, lonely old little mountain road.

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