Taiwan Trip - 10 -13 June 2005

The forest train is awesome! I like Alishan too. I wish I could do some serious hiking there instead of just following the easy peasy trail. The climb to go up to Zhushan mountain to enjoy the sunrise at crack of dawn was steep though. Unfortunately, while we were waiting at the vantage point huge clouds came in and ruined it as a result the sunrise was not as spectacular as it was supposed to be.

I boarded this mountain train from Chiayi to go to Alishan

A misty sunrise viewed in Zhushan

Many trees as old as 300 years old are in the forest

Many white calla lilies were found along the trail between Alishan and Zhushan

The Two sisters pond

The Three Brothers sprang out of one giant Chinese cypress's stump

An intricated Buddhist temple called Shoujhen, one of the two temples in Alishan recreation forest area

Some of the tree trunks through deformity formed interesting shapes, this one formed a heart, so it's called a Lover's tree or something like that