Little yellow flowers everywhere.
Also birds.
Most awesomest vision test ever. One one eleven.
And it was all yellow.
Still throws me.
Little statues of various gods.
Bigger statue of specific dude.
This was a wishing well.
Our lady of big gold lions.
Two of the four guardians of the temple - corresponding to north and east, I think.
Which would make these south and west.
Carved into the wall.
Yeliu. Lovely place. That island you can see is called "Chicken Coop Island." It looses something in the translation.
Long lovely spars of rock.
And very cute little rock pools.
And rock mushrooms.
Our guide, Danny.
Rock and water.
Could be Lake Superior. Isn't. This is the East China Sea.
Have I mentioned that I like bridges?
Just take away the radio tower for the quintessential Asian Look (as perceived by a Westerner).
Follow the slate brick road?
I also really liked these life preservers.
A lot.
The Queen's Head. He kept calling it Nefertiti, and then Cleopatra. Really, who can tell?
More fascinating divots in the rocks.
This one is called Cinderella's Shoe.
Yep.
A really lovely area.
The ill-fated fisherman.
Tiny bugs that were crawling everywhere on the cliff wall.
There's that life preserver again.
Morels!
Pie? Or a foot?
The red paint at the top was a line we weren't supposed to cross.
Plenty of people crossed it for the sake of pictures, though, and no one got fussed.
It felt vaguely Alice in Wonderland.
The people at the store only let me take this picture because they were so distracted by me asking in Chinese.
A breakwater made from a giant game of jacks.
Sploosh!
Close-up of the rock & water formations.
This rock is called the "Ice Cream Rock". You can see it, can't you.
Claws in the rock!
And bitty footprints (these are of course just more rock formations).
Pig foot.
An out-the-window glimpse of an old gold refinery. Overgrown and awesome.
The village below the old mining town.
The bay, which looks a bit like something from Neverland.
I really liked the doors in Jiufen (the mining town).
More street lights.
Were it not for the mountains, this could be Wisconsin.
The culture street in Yilan.
A stage outside for opera.
View from a bridge. It was a gorgeous day.
The musical trio.
Closer look at the hammer dulcimer player (who is also on the poster in the back) and the mandolin player.
See those pyramid things? He tuned with those.
Slid them up and down when he wanted to change the key the thing was in.
On the way back, we got a glimpse of the tea fields.
