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And a good week to you all!

August is just around the corner, which means my travels are moving along at a good clip. Good news is the photos have been keeping up; I’ve actually now got a decent-sized backlog to fall back on.

Case in point: this week’s photos are all from a field trip I did about two weeks ago, to Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake.  I would have made that a wikipedia link, except for we barely spent any time at the lake, instead spending our day at a bizarre ‘Taiwanese Aboriginal Culture Park’.  Tomorrow’s (U.S. Wednesday) photo is from that place, and will hopefully illustrate the disconnect between aboriginal culture and the park’s actual contents.

This week’s photos will have just a bit of a hiccup, as Thursday I’m off on an overnight trip to Ken-Ting, a far-south beach resort.  So only 4 photos this week,  and then the usual 5 next week.  There’s a good chance that coming batch will be from this last weekend’s trip to Tainan. How lucky I am to be seeing so much of the country!

Pleasure knowing you thus far,

-Daniel

Barge

July 31, 2007

Twelve

July 30, 2007

Five

July 27, 2007

Down

July 26, 2007

Up

July 24, 2007

Chase

July 24, 2007

All this week, I will post photos from my Sunday trip to the Taizhong harbor/seaside area.

Today’s photo requires another explanation of Chinese terms.

Those giant, wave-breaking concrete caltrops have been given a special name by the locals: 美国 粽 子Meiguo Zongzi.

Meiguo means ‘America’/'American’, and Zongzi are triangular rice dumplings wrapped in leaves, looking fairly similar to the wave-breakers.

How did these zongzi manage to earn the ‘American’ modifier? Simply, as my roommate explains, because they are big.

Meiguo Zongzi

July 23, 2007

Double Meaning

July 21, 2007

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