After waking up to a heartening breakfast whipped up by the minsu family(by the way, the whole minsu was built by the family themselves! Very "DIY" indeed!), we cycled to the Luodong Scenic Park and then took a boat ride in the lake. We ate ice-cream in peanut rolls, and Bing declared that it was one of the best street bites of Taiwan. We had prepared ourselves a steamboat lunch, using ingredients bought from town the night before. We chatted till late afternoon, and boarded a train bound for a place famous for baths and seafood. We had enjoyed both the revitalizing soaks and dinner spread, and arrived in Taipei in the wee hours of the morning.
This is Albert's picture of the trip (he loves it):
Both Bing and I love the way our Taiwanese friends had planned this trip! We had a working itinerary, but refused to adhere strictly to it. We had missed trekking on scenic paths and sights of waterfalls, but I love the own-time-own-target sequence of events. We proceeded to the next part of the trip only when we were tired of what we had been doing, and everything was conducted at an extremely leisurely pace. No mad rush to visit every single scenic place had occurred. That's what Bing and I had always referred to as a true tourist experience, and we were truly happy indeed, deriving ultimate satisfaction from the trip. Many thanks to Peggy（佩颍） especially, who had planned the great bulk of the trip. She had been a dedicated planner, attending to meticulous details of the trip (In fact, prior to our trip, she actually went on a recce tour in Yilan to make sure that we would really enjoy ourselves there!). Thanks too to all our Taiwanese friends who had traveled to Yilan with us, and we had truly enjoyed their company there!
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