The Story Of Hualian and the Deep, Dark and Dangerous Taroko Gorge We arriaved to Hualian 2 days before my birthday. Hualien is a small city on the less populated eastern coast of Taiwan. People from this area wear home-made-yarn embellished purses—hats—belts. These people are direct descendants of the aboriginal Indians that lived in the mountains. We noticed more BETLE NUT here than any other place we had been. Strangers would smile as they passed by—exposing their BRIGHT RED teeth and gums. Why it turns red in the mouth I have no idea, it is green when you buy it. L [View Full Entry]

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~~***~~ THE STORY OF LITTLE LIOU CIOU ISLAND ~~***~~ *********************************************************** First, we rode on the WORLDS FASTEST train from taipei to kaoshung. next morning we went to the bus station, we need to get to the city of dong gan to catch the ferry--Not many people speak English in kaoshung No biggie..we can do this! who cares if we dont speak the language right???... well as the confusion escalated, i noticed a white girl in a group of asian people was watching us...we were trying to ask the chinese speaking people "which bus [View Full Entry]

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