Walking around Jiaoxi city

Jiaoxi City - After our breakfast, we walked around Jiaoxi city. 

Jiaoxi Visitor centre

Jiaoxi Public Hot Spring

We walked around Jiaoxi Hot Spring Park.

We checked out at 12 noon and catched the 1pm train bound for Banciao station.  Here comes our train....



Hot Spring @ Jiaoxi city

Jiaoxi City - We took the train from Hualien city to Jiaosi about 1hr 40mins.  When we reached this city, just outside the Jiaosi railway station was a hotspring which is used very often by local residents.  This city is famous for hot spring.

Jiaoxi Railway Station

Jiaoxi station public hotspring

We patronise this old lady's titbit store...

By that time, it was time for dinner.

Our restaurant for dinner

We ate lots and lots of dumplings....

Back at the Hotel we swam at the roof top hot spring swimming pool. 

hot spring tub in our bathroom

Chising Tan Beach Area

Taroko National Park -  The last stop of our Taroko day tour was Chising Tan Beach Area.  This is beach is full of stones and we picked some beautiful stones back to Singapore.

Pax sitting on the beach

Beautiful Beach

Eternal Spring Shrine

Taroko National Park -  Our next stop, Eternal Spring Shrine was built in the memory 250 workers who lost their lives while building a highway through the Taroko Gorge to join the east and west coast of Taiwan. Eternal Spring Shrine is a Zen monastery and has been built close to the waterfall.  It is a Chinese-style structure linked to a bridge, and besides it is a stream that plumments into the river valley below. 

 
That is what the Eternal Spring Shrine looks like from very afar...

and we are going to walk a distance to this magnificent shrine.

When we reach the Eternal Spring Shrine, it was a sight to behold.  The fresh mountain waters was gushing out from beneath the shrine.

We touched the cool gushing water...

We also walked up the stairs very tiring to the Changuang Temple; and had to quickly rush down to our tour bus.