Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Tainan II

A few more photo highlights from our recent vacation:

In front of a huge bonsai tree at the Confucius Temple 



After walking around the Confucius Temple, we stopped here for some fresh tropical fruit.  Yum!
At the Anping Tree House...it's a tree house built into this bonsai tree.  
Pedaling water energy...not sure why this was there, but it was fun.


Famous Temple in Anping 
The small black statue in the middle is the oldest Matsu idol in Taiwan (if I understood correctly).  Matsu is said to be the primary deity of Taiwan.


Outside the temple, people were writing their prayers (I think) and hanging them like this.

Since we were near the coast, we often passed families working together to sort edible mussels and oysters from masses of sea...weed?

At an old Dutch fort, from when the Dutch colonized Taiwan.
For my mom and Collette.  :)
Official Taiwan residents for two years now.  Thankful for this week of rest before starting a new semester of work and a new season of parenthood.


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