Michael (left) and Jon (right) in Cambodian-style straw hats
Danshui has potted plants, somewhere.
There's a banana tree in this picture, but the bananas are green.
Danshui actually has significant amounts of land without buildings on them -- unusual for a place you can reach from the MRT.
This park was once a golf course
More of the golf-course-cum-park we wakled through in the morning
Wooden walkways are a little pricy to build, but they're very pretty.
I liked the lighting here
This whole park had a bit of a British atmosphere. Not surprising, as much of the old architecture in Danshui was built when the town was the seat of British colonialism in Taiwan.
We took pictures of a rice paddy. Here's our shadows on that rice paddy as we take pictures of it.
A rice paddy. Nice place.
It's not a peculiarity of the lighting that this looks like something out of a scene in a movie where some member of the English gentry would ride a horse along a dirt road. The whole area looked like that.
This kind of overhanging tree/vine combination is common in Taiwan.
A duck
Turtles
Some turtles in a pond on the grounds of Oxford college.
Oxford college: a scene straight out of British colonialism. Danshui was used as a British imperial port.
Oxford college was created by George Leslie Mackay, the first missionary to Taiwan. To his credit, he mainly focused on creating schools and hospitals. That's probably why he's so well-thought-of today.
A temple. It combines Buddhism and Taoism.
A temple.
Japanese-style guest room. The table can sink into the floor, leaving it a furnitureless room with a hardwood raised platform floor. This is where we slept -- also in the traditioinal Japanese way, with bedding spread on the floor.
