Hualien, Taiwan

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Musical Garbage Truck Tribal Performance
A local Taiwanese native dance troupe awaits our arrival We love Hualieng City Sign for the Hualien County Council A strange sculpture Houses in a farming village Fancy building - maybe it's a temple Christian church Inside our tour bus as we go through a tunnel in the dark A trail head at the start of the Taroko Gorge A fancy sign with a temple high on the mountain The Eternal Springs shrine above the Liwu River Changduang Temple on the side of a mountain We walk across the Old Changchun Bridge Bridge over the Liwu River Chinese on marble Entrance to the shrine Statues near the entrance We walk through tunnels Warning sign, but completely in Chinese The Enternal Spring Shrine Linda at the shrine Our bus is across the river Pete stands at the other end of the shrine Window in the shrine Inside the shrine A mom takes a picture of her son Squat port-a-potty The temple is right next to a rocky ravine Two temples on the side of the mountains Some of the marble in the river looks as white as snow Hikers on a suspension bridge Now we have to walk along the road We walk right along the edge of the gorge Holes where swallows nest A view of the gorge Layers in the marble walls Sharing the narrow road with the trraffic The river has eroded the marble Fruit for sale This is supposed to look like the head of an Indian chief The chief engineer for this road is Jin Heng Metal sculpture of a swallow The road weaves through tunnels along the gorge A red pavilion Windy road above the river The Orchid Pavilion on Frog Rock June and Linda on the Cimu Bridge White marble Highway 8 A marble lion guiards the bridge Cimu Bridge The Merciful Mother Pavilion Helmet borrow (free) A massive rock slide Linda and June watch a native dance show Native Taiwanese dancers Dancing between moving sticks A couple from the cruise try wife-carrying Local marble blocks for sale More marble Store carvings in front of a store More carvings We arrive at a jewelry and art store A lion guards the entrance Sculptures in front of the store A sculpture along the road Typical store Red paper lanterns to celebrate the Chinese New Year Little shrine in front of an auto repair garage Another sculpture Colorful store Downtown Hualien City Serpent sculpture Back to our ship at the port Colorful ferry