{"id":12852,"date":"1999-04-02T11:17:37","date_gmt":"1999-04-02T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=12852"},"modified":"1999-04-02T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"1999-04-02T00:17:37","slug":"taroko-national-park-%e5%a4%aa%e9%ad%af%e9%96%a3%e5%9c%8b%e5%ae%b6%e5%85%ac%e5%9c%92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=12852","title":{"rendered":"Taroko National Park (\u592a\u9b6f\u95a3\u570b\u5bb6\u516c\u5712)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My first venture outside Taipei was to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taroko_National_Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taroko Gorge<\/a>. I caught the train to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hualien_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hualien <\/a>and then the bus up the gorge to the temple complexes where I stayed two nights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0On the train I sat next to a Chinese man who was teaching me how to say: &#8220;I am traveling to xxx.&#8221; in mandarin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0When I was at my accommodation I was in a mixed sex dormitory. In a private room was a Dutch couple. The husband worked for Shell in Taipei and they were on holidays. They had two daughters about 4 or 5 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0While we were at an outside table talking a spider walked past. It was unlike any other I had ever seen. It had a small spherical metallic green body with big bugeyed black eyes. The body was less that half a centimeter in diameter. It had really long legs, maybe 10cm. It liked somewhat like the alien craft from war in the worlds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The girls squealed with delight. I told them to look, but do not touch, as the spider walked across our table and off into the forest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Their parents said, &#8220;<em>no snakes here<\/em>&#8221; and walked off leaving me with third girls. I was somewhat shocked by this and took the girls back to their room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0Later they decided to go to the posh hotel up the road because of the smelly squat toilets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first venture outside Taipei was to Taroko Gorge. I caught the train to Hualien and then the bus up[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1173,3288,3374,3414,3636],"class_list":["post-12852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-diary","tag-dutch","tag-shelk","tag-snake","tag-spider","tag-taroko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}