Hills behind Taichung
Thanks to friend-of-a-friend, this Sunday I had chance for my first meeting with the hills here. We went to some farm-restaurant atop the hills behind Taichung. Roads steeper than in Slovenia, new Mazda jeep-like sweetie of a car did it without any bad sound.
Food in the La Fatte restaurant was mmmmm! Only be careful with putting the red powder on the pasta, it is not sweet but quite hot paprika powder-at least for my palate, not used to spicy food. I learned to eat sea-food, it seems, I can eat some things which I probably would not touch in Croatia. Taiwan is really heaven for food delicacies!
We came up to 1000m above the sea level. Nature scenery: that of a Wietnam-war movies. Beautiful. We were lucky with the weather, and although it was cloudy and raining all the morning, during our visit hills remained dry, and view was magnificent.
Forest is full of betel-nut trees, which are, unfortunately, not good for the soil, they have too shallow roots, and in the rainy season landlides are often there where people plant it. But it is 2bln US$/year bussiness in Taiwan, and nobody would leave that easily!
Restaurants atop (there is more of them) are eagle's nests:
Pictures of Taichung from the tops here were too dim to be shown here, I'll add some views of the city from another walk around-or rather ride-around the city:
It is really line which is almost continuous to Taipei, some 150 km north-eastwards. Lots of buildings, lots of people. Here lives population of former Yugoslavia (23 mln) on the area of a bit more than half of the Croatia! Here you can see how it looks.
From one of the parks above the city, you can see the sea:
In the park some bunker, yes, Big Brother is never far enough...
People go out to catch some fresh air, here above the city, where pollution is not so big.
Well, see me in quite an unusual 'edition', I'd never expect myself sightseeing some city called Taichung on a scooter!
Food in the La Fatte restaurant was mmmmm! Only be careful with putting the red powder on the pasta, it is not sweet but quite hot paprika powder-at least for my palate, not used to spicy food. I learned to eat sea-food, it seems, I can eat some things which I probably would not touch in Croatia. Taiwan is really heaven for food delicacies!
We came up to 1000m above the sea level. Nature scenery: that of a Wietnam-war movies. Beautiful. We were lucky with the weather, and although it was cloudy and raining all the morning, during our visit hills remained dry, and view was magnificent.
Forest is full of betel-nut trees, which are, unfortunately, not good for the soil, they have too shallow roots, and in the rainy season landlides are often there where people plant it. But it is 2bln US$/year bussiness in Taiwan, and nobody would leave that easily!
Restaurants atop (there is more of them) are eagle's nests:
Pictures of Taichung from the tops here were too dim to be shown here, I'll add some views of the city from another walk around-or rather ride-around the city:
It is really line which is almost continuous to Taipei, some 150 km north-eastwards. Lots of buildings, lots of people. Here lives population of former Yugoslavia (23 mln) on the area of a bit more than half of the Croatia! Here you can see how it looks.
From one of the parks above the city, you can see the sea:
In the park some bunker, yes, Big Brother is never far enough...
People go out to catch some fresh air, here above the city, where pollution is not so big.
Well, see me in quite an unusual 'edition', I'd never expect myself sightseeing some city called Taichung on a scooter!
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