A trip with my homeroom teacher in Taitung

                  A trip with my homeroom teacher in Taitung    2020. 02.28

老師帶我到臺東（臺灣的東部）走走。藍藍的天、藍藍的海水，風景真的非常美麗。我們很悠閒的到處逛逛，放鬆一下心情。臺東的海岸和西部的海岸不同，東岸多是岩岸，和西部的海邊多是沙岸真的很不同。我們還到鹿野高臺，可惜沒有熱氣球，因為季節不對。但也可以瞭望遠處，風景真得好美!

     Last weekend, my homeroom teacher took me to Taitung, in eastern Taiwan. We spent three and half an hour taking a train from Tainan to Taitung. Taitung is situated where the Philippine and Eurasian tectonic plates meet. As the two plates have pushed together over millions of years, the orogeny that resulted and cut by rivers, erosion, sediment deposit, and wave impact, and other natural processes, have created a diverse geological landscape between mountain and ocean. Taitung has the ocean in front and high mountains at its rear, which gives it rich ecological and agricultural produce variety. The mountains are pristine, the water pure and the rice good quality; other agricultural products of which the county is rightly proud are tea, golden day lily, sugar apple, shaved fish and sailfish, their purity, naturalness and taste the pride of Taitung.

     In the mountains of Taitung, there are a lot of Taiwanese Aboriginal tribes live there, such as Amis, Puyama, Rukai Bunun, Paiwan. The culture here is richly diverse and it is worth slowly exploring the nature and culture in depth. The highest average temperature is 28.7°C in (July) and the lowest 19.2°C (January). Taitung's climate makes it suitable for visiting all year round.

     

      We went to Luyeh Highland. Luyeh Highland rests on a hill in Luye township of Taitung County that is about 350 meters above sea level. To my disappointment, we missed the Taiwan International Balloon Festival because this festival is held by the government every summer. This area has the area has beautiful scenery, especially of the surrounding eastern rift valley. I will come back again this summer.