Clogs, cold spring and prayer :)

Hualien, 18.8. 2012

I live for weekends, since I have to be at the pediatric department from 8 am to 5 pm. Last weekend we headed up to Suao (see the map).

First I was told we were going to climb a mountain. Well it was a hill and we were hardly climbing, the walk took us 10 minutes :) And I brought my hiking shoes!!! On top of the hill were canons in memory of a war between China and France. The view of the Suao harbour was very nice.

They took me to see the clogs museum (seriously :D ?), but the museum reached it's maximum capacity...
So we went to see a local temple in a fishermans village and than had a typical sea food lunch.

Don't ask me to name these things, all I know is that it was good :p

The temple was very interesting, I got my fortune told by choosing a wooden stick with a number and than getting a paper with ancient chinese letters on it. My mission then was to find someone who can read that. When I finally did, the suprisingly young man told me that it sais that I am up to my knees in shit and should really take time and think about my problem and than start solving it. I am still trying to figure out what problem that would be, no luck up to now :D

Here is where you take the stick :)

The locals told me that you can buy fake money at the temple and throw it into the incinerator. The smoke is supposed to go right to your loved ones in the sky :). You can also light some incense or give the gods food or flowers.

                       

                       

                                                                                pretending to pray much? :)

fake money and flowers

Burning of the fake money :)

After driving with the scooter the whole day we went to a cold spring. Sounds interesting, so what is it?
Well it's a river bank :) Looks like this:)

 

The water was pearsing cold, so not very enjoyable for me...

We had a private pool :)

Angela trying to find courage to dive in :)

And for the end some pictures of Suao...