What does Hwang Mi-hee think?

Imagine the image above is something you saw in real, with your own eyes:

It's a hot spring day in Korea and you find yourself wandering a few miles away from Seoul in the country side, a bit lost, a silly tourist, who went astray and doesn't speak Korean. You're tired, hungry and thirsty and you need someone to tell you the way back to Seoul, where you will feel safe, where you belong. It's after two hours of walking, when you see her sitting there at the side of the road. It's Hwang Mi-hee, presented in all her beauty and curiously looking at you. Her long sexy legs are displayed, it seems, only for you and you can't do anything but stare at those 180 centimeters of female perfection and silently utter oh sweet mother in heaven to yourself...

But then you're just a step away from her and I want you to tell me: What do you do?

a. You stop, look her in the eyes and smile. You use sign language to ask for directions.

b. You look at her, smile and continue walking. You curse yourself for not talking to her.

c. You start to sweat, blush and tremble. You feel like a complete idiot and start running.

d. You stop, look at her and give her a big smile. Then you sit beside her and start to flirt.

e. ________________ (Maybe something completely else. Share with me, be creative).

So... what would you do and how would she respond?

Read about Hwang Mi-hee>>

[Photo: Source]

Miaokou Night Market, Keelung

One of Taiwan's best night markets

The Miaokou Night Market 廟口夜市, is a very famous and popular night market in Taiwan, to be precise in Keelung, which is the biggest city on the northern coast of the island. The name "miaokou" means "temple's entrance". That's because the market is located near the famous Dianji temple (奠濟宮). Personally this is really one of the best night markets I've seen in Taiwan so far and I'd not hesitate to visit it again. Most of the food there is from the nearby sea, because Keelung has a big harbor. Besides the famous seafood, the market offers a plenty of other dishes, some of them are very unique and amazingly tasty.

MY IMPRESSION OF MIAOKOU NIGHT MARKET: This market is unique and you see that already from afar, when those famous lanterns appear and you know you're at the place to be. The crowds are drawn to this market and the closer you are, the bigger they get. What I like is the main alley, which is nicely decorated with yellow glowing lanterns and has a unique to mark the food stalls. Above each is a signboard with information in multiple languages (Chinese, Japanese and English), so you can easily read what kind of food awaits you there. Same as at other popular tourist night markets (such as the one in Shilin), there are masses of people everywhere, which means you have to push your way forward from stall to stall. Although they call the customers to eat at their stall, they're happy if you finish fast and leave, so that more and more people can eat, too. Maybe that's the reason, that the chairs are small and uncomfortable. Well, some stalls don't even offer chairs, you just buy your snack and eat it standing. Don't expect too much comfort, this is not Côte d'Azur.

WHAT KIND OF FOOD IS COMMON: The food mostly comes from the nearby sea and is very fresh and delicious. For those, who love this kind of food, Miaokou is food paradise. You have all kinds of fish, crabs and other inhabitants of the sea offered in cooked and fried versions. But there are also many other kinds of foods, such as glutinous rice 油飯 (yóufàn), salty crispy chicken

鹽酥雞

(yánsūijī), fried sandwich 營養三明治 (yíngyǎng sānmíngzhì), one bite sausage

一口香腸

(yīkǒu xiāngcháng), pao pao ice

泡泡冰

(pàopàobīng), Taiwanese tempura 天婦羅 (tiānfùluō), non-fried spring rolls 潤餅卷 (rùnbǐngjuàn) and many more. Let me show you some of these foods and the atmosphere in this famous night market.

The intersection next to the night market is very crowded.

This is the main street of the night market with the famous yellow lanterns.

The famous Dianji temple (Chinese 奠濟宮), that gave the night market its name.

View on the main street from the temple. Crowds are really huge, be ready for that.

Common are these metal tables with small chairs. Don't expect too much comfort.

POPULAR SNACK: GLUTINOUS RICE 油飯

The first dish we tried was glutinous rice 油飯 together with a soup 綜合羹湯 (zònghé gēngtāng). The rice was not bad, but not so special. The soup was very delicious, I loved it.

We had the rice and soup at this stall.

POPULAR SNACK: SALTY CRISPY CHICKEN 鹽酥雞

This stall sells all kinds of fried food, from meat (usually chicken) to vegetables. The fried food is called 鹽酥雞 in Chinese, which actually means salty crispy chicken, but it became a common name for all fried foods with the same way of cooking and similar flavor.

POPULAR SNACK: FRIED SANDWICH 營養三明治

This is a famous stall that sells fried sandwiches called 營養三明治 in Chinese. They first fry the bread, then cut it open and put tomatoes, pickled cucumbers, ham, stewed eggs and lots of mayonnaise inside. You'd be amazed how fast they do it.

My girlfriend is getting our sandwich. Excited!

This is the famous fried sandwich from Miaokou night market. I tell you, it's delicious!

POPULAR SNACK: ONE BITE SAUSAGE 一口香腸

This small sausage is called 一口香腸 in Chinese, which means one bite sausage. It reminded me of the yummy sausage I had in Wulai, the taste is similar, but the size is smaller.

The Taiwanese sausage is eaten with fresh garlic, which covers the oily taste. Although I love this sausage (and the one in Wulai), I'd say best sausages are made in Europe.

POPULAR DESSERT: PAO PAO ICE 泡泡冰

This stall sells a famous Taiwanese ice cream called 泡泡冰 in Chinese ("pao pao ice" or bubble ice). They put ingredients in a big bowl, add the flavor you want and then use a spoon to mix everything until the ice is full of tiny bubbles. I tell you, they mix so fast, it looks as if they're in a factory.

We ordered kiwi flavored pao pao ice and it was really soooooo delicious. If you ever go to Miaokou, you need to try this ice cream. Read more about it here>>

VARIOUS SEAFOOD DELIGHTS:

This hawker sells big octopuses with tentacles. I haven't tried this one.

The same hawker again.

One of the famous dishes in Miaokou night market is the butter crab. I haven't tried it.

The butter crab again with pincers and spiral shells in soy sauce.

Because Keelung is a seaport, you can get all kinds of fresh sea foods, even the sea urchin.

If you are brave enough, you can try a blowfish. Somehow it reminds me of the famous Porky the Pig from Wulai, don't you think? I shall name it "Blowy the Fish".

These are so called butter crabs.

POPULAR SNACK: OYSTER OMELETTE 蚵仔煎

Oyster omelette, when they splash the egg on the hot plate. Very yummy.

POPULAR SNACK: RABBIT SOUP

This hawker sells rabbit meat. Haven't tried. Would you?

POPULAR SNACK: TAIWANESE SPRING ROLLS 潤餅卷

This is a kind of a spring roll, but it's not fried. Taiwanese call it 潤餅卷 (rùnbǐngjuàn), which means a moist rice cake roll. It can be filled with meat and vegetables. It's similar to the Malaysian popiah.

POPULAR SNACK: CHICKEN FEET 雞腳

Those chicken feet were very yummy. We ordered some for home. Goes well with beer.

HOW TO FIND MIAOKOU NIGHT MARKET? CHECK MY MAP:

Go to from the Keelung Main station and walk along the water, then turn right to the wide Aiyi Road and then left to the Rensan road 仁三路 and walk a little more and you're there. You'll need about 15-20min to reach the market (Click on photo for Google Map).

MIAOKOU NIGHT MARKET IN CONCLUSION: This is definitely one of the finest tourist night markets in Taiwan. There's so much I haven't tried, but from what I've seen, there are many tasty dishes waiting for me, I have a lot to explore. But from what I've tried, I highly recommend the fried sandwich, which is my favorite dish there, the one bite sausage, the spring rolls and the pao pao ice. I think trying the seafood is a must and I heard the Taiwanese tempura is really delicious there. Buy a portion of chicken feet for home, they're a great snack for an easygoing evening. This night market is probably the best thing in Keelung, so don't miss it, if you find yourself at Taiwan's northern coast.

[FOOD in TAIWAN][My TAIWAN page][My YELIU post][All photos by MKL, 2010]

[My TAIWAN NIGHT MARKETS list][My MAP of Night Markets in Taipei]

How many subscribers does your blog really have?

Let me tell you how many follow your blog in Google Reader

If you follow my blog for a while now, you've probably heard about my recent increase of traffic, which still hasn't stopped. It's slowly approaching 11.000 monthly hits (with over 20.000 page views), which is a 33% increase compared to last month. That surely can't be unnoticed by my sharp eyes, however let me stress, this is nothing compared to some other blogs out there, who deal with much higher numbers and have hundred times more hits than me. But I'm happy about small things. Even, if the numbers are humble, I'm still happy.

But something bothered me for a while now. How come my monthly hits are on the up, but the number of my blog subscribers fell enormously? I'm using Feedburner like most of the bloggers and my number of subscribers was always in the twenties. From 24 to 27 usually, only one time it was 30. I still felt the number is was small, but I hoped it would gradually increase. However in recent days my feed count chicklet was showing this ->

I thought: How can that be? My blog now has only 4 subscribers? That's impossible. And the number kept changing, one day it was 4, the next day 20, then 4 again. It pissed me off and I decided to remove it. Apart from 4 being an unlucky number for Chinese, I just felt it's a ridiculously small number and it may give new visitors to my blog a wrong impression.

I knew I have more subscribers and readers, I just needed to find a way to get the right number. So I started to Google and I came across this useful article by Chris F. Masse. He tells you how to find out the number of people, who subscribed to your blog in Google Reader, which is the easiest and most common way to follow blogs. Let me show you how I found out the real number of my subscribers:

1 First sign in to your Google Reader account.

2 Click on "Add a subscription", write your blog's name and press ENTER


3 After a short while, this will appear

My number of subscribers in Google Reader is 103!

Now that's a number I'm not ashamed of and it makes much more sense, because everything's been on the up lately, only the Feedburner feed has been going down. But let me explain why.

There can be many ways to create a blog's feed. I chose Feedburner, but it seems that my followers don't really like to subscribe to that one. They most likely just copy and paste my blog's URL http://mykafkaesquelife.blogspot.com/ into Google Reader's "Add a subscription" box and subscribe to my default feed. Hence, my Feedburner's number remained low.

But my real number currently is 103. It says a lot, but not everything about my readers. Not everyone follows or reads blogs in Google Reader, there are many other readers and other ways to follow blogs. In my case it's like this:

Default feed: 103 subscribers
Feedburner feed: Between 20-27 subscribers
Google Friend Connect/Blogger: 80 followers
Bookmarked: At least 40 people

I'm just guessing the number of people who bookmarked my blog, but I see many on my trackers who come to my blog from a simple bookmark on their browsers.

Sure, all these are numbers and I have no idea how many people really read and like my posts. Some of you give me feedback and I thank you a lot. But I've seen an increase of many silent readers, who click on almost every link I place in a post. So I guess they read my stuff, too. Thank you as well.

Your blog list

And because I'm so grateful to some of you bloggers, I decided to do the job for you and tell you how many subscribers your blog has in Google Reader on day 25. May 2010 (keep in mind, the number can change on daily basis):

She in China (Jonna) - 1351 subscribers

Notes of a Toothfairy (Shirley) - 1104 subscribers
Pop Champagne (Julie) - 704 subscribers
Bee Creative (Kym) - 583 subscribers
Calligraphy in the Landscape (Ruma) - 632 subscribers
Insomniac Lolita (Andhari) - 514 subscribers
my site... my stuff... (Fufu) - 411 subscribers

Manju Gone Blog (Maju) - 367 subscribers
As Zewt As It Gets (Zewt) - 298 subscribers
Had blog (Had) - 268 subscribers
ChinkyMel's Corner (Mel) - 233 subscribers
My Secrets (Kasia) - 215 subscribers
Karen is here! (Karen) - 161 subscribers
Inside my Bubble Today (Wenny) - 160 subscribers
Carina the Blogarina (Carina) - 158 subscribers
Jamaipanese (Kirk) - 153 subscribers
I am Krissy (Krissy) - 138 subscribers
Musings of Painted Holy Grails (Ejann) - 121 subscribers
The Mercurial Wife (Johana) - 114 subscribers
My Kafkaesque life (that's me) - 103 subscribers
Solitary Panda (Floreta) - 82 subscribers (244 on your old blog)
Where did all the pecans go? (Nashe) - 81 subscribers
Lost... in Translation (Sharon) - 79 subscribers
French Sweets (Carine) - 63 subscribers
Cup of Ice (Shingo) - 46 subscribers
Lady Angele (Angele) - 45 subscribers
The Jessicat (Jessica) - 40 subscribers (Benjicajess.com - 118)
Daisy's Mad Tea Party (Daisy) - 39 subscribers
Curious Notions (Linda) - 32 subscribers
Booby Rants! (Sabrina) - 30 subscribers
Ms. Stefbunny (Stefanie) - 24 subscribers
KitKatoholic (Kit) - 21 subscribers
Junjie's China blog (Junjie) - 20 subscribers
So Flawed (Jaimie) - 16 subscribers
Trifledreamz (Adamantixx) - 15 subsrcibers
Netster's Blog 宅男 (Netster) - 15 subscribers
Lily murmurs in English (Lily) - 13 subscribers
My Word 1 (ZACL) - 10 subscribers
Taiwan Culture Exchange (Sander) - 8 subscribers
Girl Eats World (Linda) - 7 subscribers
The Brooding Lizard (Lizzy) - 5 subscribers
Japan, Gifu, Hida-Takayama (Saša) - 4 subscribers

UPDATE: Carina told me, that there's another (easier) way to find out the number of subscribers. Just sign in to your Google Reader, chose a blog and then in your upper right corner click on details. The number should be there :-) Thanks, Carina

I decided to link to the top 5 blogs. Keep in mind, this is only about your Google Reader subscriptions. People can follow your blog in many other ways. Hope the info is useful to you. Now I wish you happy blogging. Cheers!

Ps: If I made a mistake and messed up your numbers, please let me know and I will correct it.

I Blog About Travel – Pick Me!

Reading Lily Riani's latest post, I decided to participate in the same "travel blog contest" as she did, which is btw open to anyone who blogs about travel. You also can join, if you mainly blog about travel.

The contest is held by Mom Bloggers Planet, which is a blog directory primarily targeting Malaysian moms, but is also open to all women from all over Malaysia and the region. Since I've lived in Malaysia, have many Malaysian friends and followers, I decided to join this contest, which, in case I get chosen, would give my blog more publicity. I'm happy, if my efforts here get rewarded by more readers, who also enjoy traveling and seek some useful info about certain places. So let's get started. Here are my answers:

1 Blog Name/URL:

My Kafkaesque life - http://mykafkaesquelife.blogspot.com/

2 When did you start blogging?

I started to blog in October 2006, but only for a month. I lost interest very quickly. However I decided to blog again in March 2008 and ever since I'm blogging regularly and a lot, I wrote over 600 posts in 2 years.

3 Introduce yourself and your blog

I'm a 30 years old guy from Slovenia, a small country in central Europe. I love to travel and I love Asia, so I'm constantly trying to combine these two things. The time I spent in Asia is now over one year and I plan to live in Taiwan permanently and travel all over East and South East Asia in the future. Of course there's so much more about me than travel, my blog is full of other interests, but recently travel has become my main focus of blogging and I truly enjoy that.

4 Why do you blog about travel?

A while ago I decided to change my blogging style from personal to informational. I want to write good posts, provide good information to my readers and share good photos. In Taiwan I have the chance to see amazing places that are very easily accessible from Taipei City and the things I saw and experienced inspired me to share and write about travel more. I've also been to Macau and Seoul recently and I've blogged about these places a lot, too. And I plan to blog even more about travel in the near future, especially about my wonderful country Slovenia.

5 Do you make money with your travel blog?

Few weeks ago I put ads on my blog, but so far I haven't earned anything significant. If I earn some money in the process, that's fine. But I'm reasonable and stick to my own blogging plan, regardless if I can get money or not.

6 Why should we pick your travel blog?

Because I'm passionate about traveling and blogging. I pick the best photos, add maps, provide info about prices, transportation. I constantly strive to improve. Some of my posts took me hours like the Palaces of Seoul, each of them took me at least 5h to blog, because I wanted the perfect photos and info. If you check the linkbar and the pages about Taiwan, Taipei, Seoul and Macau, you will see work of many many hours, days and weeks. And there's a lot about Taiwan coming up in the upcoming weeks.

7 Website: Mom Bloggers Planet

MBP: http://mombloggersplanet.com/
Contest page: http://mombloggersplanet.com/contest-i-blog-about-travel-pick-me/

My dear followers, what do you say? Should MKL be featured on MBP? ;-)

Trip to amazing Yeliu and Keelung

Taiwan's northern coast with its magic nature

A while ago my girlfriend took me on a short trip to Taiwan's northern coast. And since it's really so beautiful there, I'm going to share with you some of my photos and tell you all about the amazing places we saw that day. We went to Yeliu 野柳 (also Yehliu or Yehliou), a Geopark with amazing natural formations and to Keelung (基隆, prounced similar to Chilong), Taiwan's biggest northern port, a bustling city of around 400.000 people, famous for its sea food, night market and rainy days.

It took us about 1h from Taipei to reach Keelung. The weather was hot and humid, but a bit cloudy. Actually I just wanted to see Keelung city, I had no idea about Yeliu, but my girlfriend was once there and wanted me to see it. If you want to read everything about what happened that day, check my photos and click on the links below, they will bring you to my posts.

A view on downtown Keelung. We took a bus here and headed to Yeliu.

✰ Check my post about Keelung here>>

The bus took us to a small fishing town named Wanli. It's really beautiful.

✰ Check my post about Wanli here>>

And these are the famous rocks, carved by nature, thousands of years in the making.

✰ Read my Yeliu Geopark post here>>

And then I saw it: The famous Queen's Head (女王頭), the symbol of the whole region.

✰ Check more of my Queen's Head photos here>>

I love sunsets and this one is one of the most beautiful I ever captured.

✰ Check more of my Yeliu sunset photos here>>

After the long afternoon, we went to one of Taiwan's best and most famous night markets, to the Miaokou Night Market in Keelung. We really had a great time there as well.

✰ Check my Miaokou Night Market post here>>

What do you think about our trip to Keelung and Yeliu?

[My TAIWAN page][All pics by MKL, 2010]

Asian Canadians are awesome!

Thanking Karen for her award and thanking my Canadian readers

On the photo: Lee Hyo-ri

I was awarded and tagged by the lovely Canadian blogger Karen (for the second time) and I think it's about time for me to finally do the tag and award some of my blogger friends. I'd like to say a big thank you to my Canadian followers. From what I see on my tracker, I get a lot of traffic from Canada, especially from Kamloops, Vancouver and Toronto. After USA, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, Canada ranks no 5 on my blog visits ranked by countries. And some of my regular commentators and blogger friends are Canadians, most notably Karen, Kym and Julie (who also happen to be Asian), are truly awesome (hence the title of the post). Their blogs are adorable, that's for sure, I recommend you to check them out. Thanks again, Canadians!

Now it's time to do the tag. First the Stylish blog award (click here for award photo):

The rule says: For this tag, state 5 random facts about yourself and award the tag to 5 others.

1 During my trip to Macau, I was addicted to Portuguese egg tarts. My addiction was later cured, when I returned to Taiwan, I got totally hooked on fried dumplings ;-)

2 I think Chuck Norris is a douche. And by that I mean the real person and his political views, not the funny internet character. I love that one ;-)

3 This is why I love Google.

4 I blush very easily, but it doesn't mean I'm shy. My skin reacts to all kinds of weather conditions, it's very sensitive.

5 I also have very sensitive eyes and if I don't wear my sunnies and the weather is hot and sunny, my eyes hurt. Also when I go sightseeing on a sunny day and I take photos of myself without sunnies, my eyes look mostly closed on all the photos, my girlfriend can confirm that. So like someone needs glasses to read, I need my sunnies to survive the sunny days :-)

And now to the Cherry on Top award (click here for award photo). For this tag you have to thank the person who gave you the award, copy the award and post it on your blog, then list three things you love about yourself and post a picture you love (eg: a person you adore etc). Then tag 5 people.

Thanks again, Karen, for tagging me. The three things I love about myself are:

1 I love my open-mindedness when it comes to food. I love all kinds of food and am always open to try new ones. Everywhere I travel, I find some favorite local food and enjoy eating it. That makes my life much easier many times.

2 I love my willingness to listen and understand, be it individuals, groups or societies.

3 I love my ability to speak many languages. I hope one day, when I have children, that they also speak more languages than one.

This is my girlfriend at the Yeliu cape. I love this photo and I love her.

I also chose this photo, because my next post will be about the famous Yeliou cape and Keelung, northern Taiwan's main port. We had a great time there, you'll see soon. Stay tuned.

I'm giving these 2 awards to following people:

1 Kym from http://www.beecreative.ca/
2 Julie from http://popchampagne.blogspot.com/
3 Lily from http://yulengchen.blogspot.com/
4 Jaimie from http://soflawed.blogspot.com/
5 Roxy from http://bludeh.blogspot.com/

If you do the tag or don't, it's really up to you. Just take it easy, k. I won't spy on you, hehe. Although I will continue stalking you on your blogs ;-)

[Photo 1: Source, Photo 2 by MKL, 2010]

Would you eat Cock?

Cock fried chicken that is.

"Cock fried chicken" hawker in Banciao.

This is a new hawker at one of my favorite night markets in Banqiao near the Xinpu MRT. They sell chicken meat, but it seems that they're not very popular, because I've not seen a lot of people there. I guess Taiwanese don't like to eat their cock. I think I need to ask my girlfriend why. I wonder, if she'd try their cock. We've been walking around there quite many times, but their cock didn't tempt her so far. Would you eat that cock? If not this one, how do you like your cock? LOL. I wonder, if they chose a wise name for their establishment, because I tried to google some more info about them, but I only got some weird results of men and women naked and stuff :-P

On a totally unrelated note, I've had chicken testicles at a wedding party some time ago. Just thought of posting a photo for you here:

"Chicken testicles" at a wedding dinner in Taiwan.

The dish is said to be *drumrolls "good for your sexual power" and only men are supposed to eat it, so they say in Taiwan. Did you expect anything else? :-P Would you try it?

My collection of weird Taiwanese dishes is now quite big, from "shit" to chicken feet and frog, I've tried many foods that my fellows in Slovenia would not dare to even come close to. But guess what? Trying crazy food is a lot of fun. You should try it yourself. ;-)

[Taiwan]

[Cock]

[All photos by MKL, 2010]

Our trip to Kenting, Taiwan's paradise

Kenting is the most southern part of Taiwan

Baby, do you remember that hot day, when we took the cab near the Kaohsiung HRS and headed to Kenting National Park? Oh boy, it was really a hot day. Lucky for us, that we took a cab, which was so comfortable and the driver drove very pleasantly. Do you remember, when you said I needn't take photos of the sun's beautiful reflection on the sea, because later, when we reach our beach, I can take more photos and see the beautiful sunset? Well, I was right, wasn't I? Because later that day we didn't see the sunset, we were so tired and laid on bed in our room. I'm happy I took these pics and the one above is my favorite.

Our beach at dawn. People were leaving, when we arrived.

You were so curious about the water and we soon took a brief swim. It was very lovely.

Those damn jetski riders annoyed people by splashing them with water.

It was soon evening and we headed to the Kenting town night market.

Do you remember the dish we had? It was huge, overpriced and not so yummy like here in Banciao. But we were hungry, we finished it to the last bit.

And then we went back to our room and laid on bed, took a rest...

Do you remember, when we watched New Moon? It's the first time I saw Edward and Bella sucking blood from a dead deer squeaking for help. Poor deer, didn't make it...

The next day started very well, we had a yummy breakfast, but you told me the story, why you don't eat bacon ham. That was pretty horrid, but guess what? More bacon ham for me, hehe.

The road was inviting. We rented a scooter and I changed into a Taiwanese that day.

We had a glimpse of the beach, but we decided to go to the most southern point of Taiwan. The scooter made me nervous and seeing that uncle laying on the road, while people surrounded him, didn't help either. My fear of riding scooters made me moody. I trusted you my life on that motorcycle and we made it. Your driving skill is excellent, thank you so much for smooth ride. In the end I'm happy that we took that ride and saw that amazing place.

Here's a map of Eluanpi, the place we went to. Click on photo to enlarge.

We were greeted by a scary sign. Lucky for us, no snake crossed our path... but bugs did.

The rocks we saw used to be below the sea many many years ago, you told me.

We've reached one of the two big pavilions with the amazing view of the southern Taiwanese sea. I will never forget how happy you were, when you saw that magnificent display.

The blue was dazzling and mystified us. We took many photos that day, more like I took them. But that's because I felt the magic of that spot and wanted to keep it. I'm keeping it here, in my heart now.

The kissing rocks. They were not the only one kissing here.

Later, when we left for another pavilion, I took a photo of this bug. Little did I know that one of his relatives will attack me.

It happened here: I tried to take a nice photo and something started buzzing around my back, hitting my neck. I started to wave my hands like crazy and run towards you. I wonder how come you didn't laugh in that moment? I guess you were worried more than amused, but when you saw that nothing bit me, you had to chuckle inside.

We returned to the famous Lighthouse at Eluanpi.

A bunch of Mainland Chinese gathered around every spot.

The view on the sea below from the lighthouse.

We were heading back to our room and you didn't hesitate to pose for me, my lovely driver.

We made few stops along the way, to see this beautiful beach.

This part is protected with a fence, nobody is allowed to swim here, which is great.

The part nearby is full of tourists snapping photos... This couple was cute.

A famous rock, this time not surrounded by Chinese, but by Westerners.

Back at our beach. The tractors were a kind of a turn-off, but hey, this is Taiwan and if you can make good business at the beach, you'll cover it with jet skis and tractors: Taiwan boleh ;-)

We didn't swim that day, just returned to our lovely bed and breakfast, where we packed our things and took a breather. It was so hot that day, we had no choice but to relax under the aircon and wait for our taxi to arrive and bring us back to Kaohsiung.

Soon back in Kaohsiung, it was that tall building, that screwed up our plans. We walked around the big city for two hours to find it... But you know what? I don't regret it at all. We had a great walk and the most important thing is, I was with you.

Kenting and Kaohsiung were ours in those two days. It was our first trip, where we stayed over night and it's really my best Taiwan trip so far. Thank you for showing me the beautiful Southern Taiwan. I hope when I return there in the future, you will be by my side again. Thank you.

[Kaohsiung][Taiwan][All photos by MKL, 2010]