Day 6:
We rested at the Rainbow Resort Hotel泓泉溫泉渡假村 is a laid-back 3-star hot spring hotel located near the Jhihben (Zhiben) hot spring area in Taitung County, Taiwan
It was very relaxing to feel the hot springs.
Then a old lazy with a small truck was selling sugar-apple or custard apple. We never had them before they were absolutely delicious.
While we were on tour, there was typhoon Champi happening in the norther eastern part of Taiwan. The waves were impacting the southern parts of the island. The tour guide did fore warn us that our tour may change course if the typhoon didn't change course. So along the eastern route from south, there were trees that fell on the road, even an overturned vehicle.
So the bus driver detoured from the east coast of Taitung of the island to the west. We didn't get to go to Chenggong and Hualien.
The picture above, Da was very proud of (conning) the popo to buy him onigiri. Due to the detour, we stopped by a 7-Eleven and Da struck up conversations with a popo in the bus. While at 7-Eleven, the popo was buying some snacks for her grand daughter and Da was commenting about the onigiri and how he loved it when he was in Japan and wasn't sure if it's any good in Taiwan. Then the popo bought it for him!
With the detour, the tour guide took us to Paradise of Deer (鹿境梅花鹿生態園區). is a unique ecological park located in Hengchun, in sunny southern Taiwan. It is not just a zoo, but a specialized nature reserve created to preserve the population of Formosan sika deer. Here, visitors get a rare chance to observe these graceful animals and even interact with them in their natural habitat.
We get to feed the deer, little hedgehogs, and even capybaras!
After feeding deer and capybaras, we were treated to the Weng Yao Chicken (甕窯雞) restaurant, a popular restaurant famous for its traditional wood-fired urn-roasted chicken in Yilan.
The chicken was super juicy and delicious.
