Lake in the middle of...chips: Lake Placid

When one does not have too much time for travels around, it is good to go behind the corner. In the middle of superhypergiga-tech Hsinchu Science Park is hidden...what would else be than Lake Placid. On the way there you can also meet the castle

It is not the house of some local gang leader, but newly built primary school, painting still drying. As usual, "interesting" architecture, it seems in Taiwan anyone can finish architecture, and then just copy-paste Lego models...
The lake is nicely included in a bit less nice landscape

I am not ironical, it is really nice to go out from the buildings and come to something like this:

They try to keep the spirit of Chinese Pavilion, ok, it is in concrete, but the effort is here ...

There is something left also from the wilderness of the jungle...

Someone wanted to be creative, so he posted the concrete panels up, as if there would not be enough concrete areound and at the ground...

Here the same somebody drank too much and (s)he felt the Spirit ;-)

his temple I was already showing, but today another camera and a bit better light. Lipns varwed in the stone are the largest value of this temple.

When you enter, you meet few of such cylinders with lights, every year family pays for having the name of the deceased near the light. Kind of 'all year' mass for dead ones, or eternal candel-light...people really have ideas...

But, as I said, here religion is alive, not only turistical attraction.

Frogs on Taiwan, night song

I was going home through Campus yesterday and was passing through "music" of frogs, singing

The best example that Tropic is not full of things to see, but also to hear. Very loud, even :-D

Plum Rain season

Taiwan is tropical island, so, all tropical climate characteristics are here. We just entered the Plum Rain season. I failed to notice it until this year, obviously I needed "3rd lucky".
It is not too bad, temperatures 22-25 cels, if sunny, up to 30. But humidity 100%, yes.
Meteorological explanation is: "The plum rain season (pronounced "meiyu" in Chinese), or the East Asian rainy season, refers to the frontal precipitation caused by the meiyu front, which stretches from the east China coast, across Taiwan, and eastward into the Pacific south of Japan.
The front forms during spring when the moist air over the Pacific meets the cooler continental air mass, bringing rain to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and eastern China." Good to know.
I catched a bike ride before this week rain.
In the TsingHua campus I found some interesting details.
"Beauty" of architecture in the chinese world sometimes fascinates me...

This is...

I am curious how the concentration camp (with prisoners) would look in the mind of this architect...if this is the best (s)he could invent for Humanities college!
We have nuclear reactor in the campus, also...I think it does not work any more. Nearby building is accelerator, so, quite complete facility were here some 30 years ago.

Twenty minutes drive further, rice fields...

Also bananas...I know, for Taiwanese not a big deal, but give me a break, I am from Europe...

A bit of apartment buildings kitsch...

After such a bicycle ride, it is nice to eat something...mmmmm. Paella, Taiwan edition.

Deser is a bit yellow, for me who am used to red watermelons, but, what we can do, it is Yellow world, no? Taste is the same, all the rest are ... nuances, as we can say for many other ...things... here ;-) .