Day 4:

The long and arduous to Kaohsiung, the 2nd largest city in Taiwan. We set off early in the morning and got ready for a 7 hour bus journey to the 2nd largest city in Taiwan.

There isn't much to report for this day. Serious.

We sat on the bus for hours before we hit our first toilet stop, the Tropic of Cancer Marker.


See? The Tropic of Cancer!

Then we sat on the bus some more, listened to more folklore stories about immortials having rendevous with each other and the heavenly knights hunting them down, eventually leading to the formation of some caves in the area which we did not stop by so I only got a passing shot of the cave in the bus. Since it was of dubious quality, I decided not to post it up here.

What we did stop by was the island they were supposedly having the rendevous on. Folklore has it that the heavens struck the rock the 2 lovers were on splitting it into 3 (eventually).



The rendevous island

After more time on the bus, we ended up in a place where the water was supposed to run upwards, against the force of gravity. Now I was expecting something grander, like a whole river doing that. Instead, I saw a tiny drain of water doing this gravity-defying act, well it didn't defy anything, the general direction of things still saw the water flowing downwards. What a farce.... And the stream was really tiny, like some 30cm in width. ARGH.

I couldn't be bothered anymore and slept the rest of the journey into Kaohsiung (lol). We ended up in Kaohsiung's Sin Jia Jiang Night Market and it was almost the same as the other night markets. Same thing, same kinds of food so I won't waste time explaining.

Dinner was alright I guess, not fantastic either and we finally retired to the hotel rooms for our rest. There you go! Day 4!