Places I've Been 3: Taroko Gorge

Sometime in November, we headed down to Haulien on the east coast to visit Taroko Gorge. It was quite a rainy weekend, so excuse the pictures, but it was nice to get out. Ideally it would have been great to rent a scooter and drive through the gorge, but we decided that the first time driving a scooter probably shouldn't be in the rain.

The park contains apparently half of Taiwan's animal species, and used to be the home for the Atayal people. The Japanese and KMT eventually came into the area to build roads.



View of the gorge.



Hey look I found the Promised Land, and it's in Haulien



A statue or the perfect representation of how I feel about teaching at 8am on a Saturday morning?