Hehuanshan

So last weekend four of us planned to go for a one day trip to Hehuanshan mountain in central Taiwan.

We left via car from Taipai at ~10 pm, rested once in the night and were in time for the sunrise at 5:30 am. It was windy and chilly there at 4°C.

Our route to sunrise spot, walked up a small hill to reach the top (red)

Pre-dawn

Turtle shaped cloud gliding across

Mystic Haveli

Lenticular clouds on the left

The atmosphere was quite refreshing hues in both sky and on land were awesome. In fact not even slight brightness correction was required in any of the photos! We stopped by at a few locations to take snaps.

just perfect

Clouds across the cliff (Watch in full-screen HD to get better feel.)

After having breakfast at a roadside place we went to see a place called Qingjing farm It looked beautiful on the net so we decided to check it out. When we reached there, a large family crowd was buying entry tickets (200 NT/person).

Entry to QuinJing farm

inside

It was scenic, and very well maintained.

Each sheep has an identification number stitched to its ears.

After entering, we went straight to a place where there was sitting arrangement for ~200 people around a "sheep castle".  A guy from New Zealand was handing the whole show and gave us the idea of life on a sheep farm. The sun had turned unbearable now and clouds had vanished. After watching the sheep show we were feeling exhausted and decided to ditch another show (which was about horses) and return after wandering a bit Everywhere I saw people were busy getting clicked getting their money's worth of FB likes perhaps, but hey, who am i to judge ..

After getting out of the farm we decided to return to Taipei but via a different route (towards Yilan) which turned out to be not so wise decision. It took us a lot of time to cover the same distance through mountainous path. Temperature dropped a few notches and at times it was too foggy to see the road.

Fog and jam

Miles of cabbage farms

The End