Taroko (太魯閣) National Park has the most dramatic scenery in Taiwan. Its gorge, a small version of Grand Canyon, is world famous. Liwu River (立霧溪) cuts through the mountain that is formed by pure marble to form the gorge. It is part of Central Cross-island Highway, which cut accross the central mountainous region of Taiwan. The highway is now not passable due to the earthquake of 1999. On January 28, the third day of Chinese New Year, we reached the area from the north using Rt 7A from Yilan (宜蘭) through Lishan (梨山) and Dayuling (大禹嶺). We have tried to go through this highway for six years and finally made it this time.
On the way to Lishan, we pass by this rapeseed flower field at Nanshan (南山), a tribal village up in the mountain. By the time we reached Tiansian (天祥) at the Taroko Gorge, it was 5 o'clock in the afternoon. We planned to be home in Taipei at 9 to have dinner. We did not arrive till 1 AM due to the Chinese New Year traffic, both deep in the mountain and in the Snow Mountain Tunnel.
4 comments:
I like the Daily Flower topic! See nice photo and learn flower's name.
I forget the name of my plant and can't know it from google...
http://picasaweb.google.com/Martin.Mao1102/MyPlant?authkey=M2VKJJAtoFs&feat=directlink
What is its name again?
It is a dull plant becasue I guess it will never blossom.
Nice shots...I like the bright yellow field with the woman in it...
Grace...so beautiful in this flower field...I want my photo in it!
I am surprised to find this flower on your blog about Taiwan! I live on what was once a farm in Alberta, Canada - the landscape around my home is peppered with bright yellow fields of rapeseed every summer. However, we no longer call it rapeseed, we call it Canola. One of my favorite things about summer is the scent of Canola blooms on the warm air.
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