I got my Laptop back, I already blogged some pictures; I am healthy again after lying in bed with a cold the first studying week, so it’s time for blogging what happened here the last three weeks in Taipei!
I went
hiking to Zhinan Temple, which was very exciting, and my first hike alone! My
plan was actually to hike up to Maokong, unfortunately it started raining
heavilgy as I was around Zhinan Temple and I chose a shortcut to go down again.
As you can see in the pictures it was still very beautiful especially after the
rain. By the way, rain is not cold here, it is just wet. And a lot of the
precipitation directly evaporates, when I look up into the sky I feel like
seeing more drops than actually reach the ground. For me it felt like being in
a steam sauna.
The nature
here is awesome, for me totally new and just beautiful! I am always astonished
by the huge leaves of the trees. And the huge colourful butterflies! Even the
giant spiders are really interesting; they are most of the time high enough in
the mountain but still look very impressive by their size.
I was a
little bit disappointed because ‘hiking’ here means mainly stairs. I read in
another blog that they have to build up stairs due to the dense vegetation.
They also do it for more safety on highly frequented paths. Next time I gonna
ask some of the locals for nice paths without stairs, because my knees didn’t
like them very much.
After my
hike I did something stupid: I drove home with the Metro, approximately an hour
and didn’t cover myself in dry clothes. That’s how I got my cold. It was really
annoying, but the hike was worth it!
Stay
positive!
Yihua.
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