Our first objective was to find some local food since it was almost 1 pm and each one of us was starving. We stopped by just at the entrance of Chihpen were several people were “begging” us to have a look at the menu they offer. We tasted some local vegetables with some special beef and an additional plate of spicy Tofu with white rice. Once filled, we went for our second mission: find a place to sleep for the night. The one we choose had a nice view on the canyon (i.e. Songquan Hotel) was relatively correct if you don’t expect too much : only 1 000 NT for a double room it was fair enough. The bad surprise was that there was no real freshwater water in the bathroom but water from the cold hot spring with a strong sulphur smell.
What was the next mission? Finding the hidden waterfall of course! On the way to Chihpen Forest Recreation Area, we saw an indication of the popular “White Jade Waterfall” but it was not the one we were looking for. We eared about a beautiful isolated waterfall close to the Forest Recreation Area. Following Delphine’s insight, we finally found that beautiful waterfall isolated from any anthropogenic pollution (cf picture). We spent sometime there appreciating the beauty of mother earth.
Being close to Taitung we went there to enjoy the famous fruits this town has to offer. In central Taitung, there is a lively fruit street (shuiguo jie, cf picture). Of course we bought some pineapples, mangoes, dragon fruit and papaya. No need to go especially in this street to buy the most famous fruit of Taitung called the “Buddha’s fruit” since it can by bought in several shops along the main road (Nb 9) to Chihpen. Few sushis were enough to complete our diner and we went back to the source of wisdom (Chihpen) for a hotspring session at the Dongtair Hot Spring pool. What a pleasure to relax before going to sleep for only few hours since the boat will be pretty early in the morning tomorrow.
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