Day 2 morning: It's about the nature

So up early on Day 2 of our Ruili trip.We get a full day today. I got to know a guy called Leo(http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/dai117) who is a native in Ruili through the internet and he advised on what we could do in the hills while we were there,

First things first of course, look out at the view

Good weather for the morning:It's trekking time

but before that, the all important breakfast which is part of our stay package

Half eaten awesome breakfast

Now we are full of energy to go and walk along the Green colored path( 綠色隧道) .We walked through a small bamboo forest that runs through the back of our hostel

Short path through some bamboo

And then we got onto the main road. You can see the devastation caused by typhoon Marokot from this building which was the only one that was damaged by the landslide in the area. The rains due to Marokot poured a lot of rains onto the Alishan mountain region caused a lot of mud/landslides but in Ruili, No human lives where taken.

Landslide affected building

More walking to be done before we hit the green colored path . It was a nice stroll through tea gardens and we saw many local huts and even caught sight of a cat sitting on a red brick wall.

Local hut .. probably they still make tea here

Nicely terraced tea gardens

The classic tea picking pose

The cat watching my every move

Finally we reached the entrance to the Green Colored Path.

It's an easy walk through some very nice scenery

Okay after the last flight of stairs where you see me posing in the Tai chi post posture, we got back to the main road and went back to the hostel for lunch . When in Taiwan, do what the Taiwanese do. So we chose to eat "bian tang" kind of like chinese take-away.