Hit Wikipedia for an explanation of what a Taiwan Night Market is. Think thousands of people shopping, eating, walking, meeting, talking, haggling, buying, selfie sticks everywhere, foods you have never seen before in your life, unbelievably hot and humid and sticky, olofactory surprises, sensory overstimulation …
The kids are tilting the track, yaw and pitch, trying to get the marble into the goal to win a prize.
Rubber Ducky you’re the one, you make bath time so much fun …
English does not translate well, part x.
If I decipher the packaging correctly, this is actually a chocolate-filled candy. If …
Melons. Citrus. Unknowns.
Cooking quail eggs. I actually ate one. Sprinkled with cinnamon. Good!
Color-of-the-month contact lenses?
More false eyelashes than I have ever seen in one place.
Haggling.
English does not translate well, part x.
English does not translate well, part x.
Shrooms.
Entrance to ShiLin.
Fishing for dinner. Not kidding. Hook your shrimp and they cook it for you in the fryer at the rear of photo.
Protable power. English does not translate well, part x.
Inside the tea shop. Washing pots and cups behind the counter, while tea steeps in the sand pit.
Tea pot as art.
Chiufen Tea House — the metal sign outside the door.
Chiufen Village market.
My backpack was actually here, accompanied by me! Manga artists apparently made the restaurant behind me famous in a film, which is one reason all the tourists pack into Chiufen.
Taking time off from remodeling the house to pay for the remodel, brother Dave and I traveled to Taipei, with enough time before work to hop on Tour 7, Chiufen Village & Northeast Coast Tour, from Edison Travel Service.
An abandoned copper mine near the Nanya Rock Formations.
Iron mixed with sandstone at Nanya Rock Formations.
Nanya Rock Formations, one of the tour highlights.
The bleached skeleton from Aliens.
Glimpsed from the tour bus windows as we drove by, a gathering of hula skirts.
The tide goes out.
The roof across the street.
Copper runoff turns the coastline red and tints the ocean bay orange.
Serious erosion control.
The stream past the abandoned copper mine, turned orange by copper diluted into the water.
Emirates Airlines is hiring. Hundreds of 20-somethings applied for jobs, filling the second and third floors of the Westin Hotel in Taipei.
