Peng Hu Field Trip with Dong Hai University
Finally, a week late, here are some pictures from my university-subsidised trip to the Islands of Peng Hu, west of Taichung city. It was a pretty good trip, but unfortunately was only 48 hours long, and the budget nature of the excursion meant that we took rather tedious modes of transport (bus to the southern port city of Kaohsioung and then ferry) to and from the islands. This meant travelling times of 7 hours each way. This wasn't necessarily a bad thing though, and I enjoyed getting to know some people from my Chinese language centre whom I otherwise wouldn't have had an opportunity to spend time with.
In the photos:1. The deep blue ocean
2. A classmate with her awesome reflective shades on the deck of the ferry
3.Catching a tan on the deck
4. Watching scenery go by during a bus tour of the island
5.An entrance to a bridge that is famous for some reason
6. On the way to some scenery
7. A native cactus fruit remarkably similar in external appearance to a South African prickly pear
8. Mike, checking out the view
9. Some decent scenery (finally!)
10. "It's a bird, it's a plane..."
11. The old town of Peng Hu, nicely preserved for tourists.
12. A section of a wall, showing how the bottom half is made from stones, while the top is built with pieces of dead coral.
13. The entrance to a 500-year-old temple covered with an unbelievably big Banyan tree.
14 - 16. Some other random images of the temple
17. Our Ferry
18 - 19. Some social pictures on the ferry ride home.
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