After that we headed back to watch the original 'Italian Job'. lol. The Americans thought it was so boring, in fact Zach fell asleep part way through. haha. Geoff and I loved it! Admittedly, it is a little bit of a snooze fest until you get to the getaway.
On Sunday we ventured out to explore the bat caves. There was no cavern, which I had read about online, but only tunnels. Still great fun. I felt like I was Indiana Jones in search of something cool, but with the added frustration of getting my flip flops stuck in the gross mud and having to root around to get them.
An old lady had taken the opportunity to go with us as she had not brought a torch (Renee, Zach and myself had one each). She gave me a bit of a headache as she was shouting down the tunnels to her family. Apparently she was the only one brave enough to do it. lol. Still great fun.
After we navigated through them, there were a couple of dead ends, we relaxed a little. I snuck back in to take a couple of pictures because the first time I was busy trying to see where I was going.
We were rather mucky when we got out. I felt so sorry for Zach and Renee, who are much taller than me and had to crouch a lot. I didn't...one perk to being short.
Then we went in search of the infamous waterfall. We literally drove past it last time. When we had breakfast at the Early bird in the morning I bumped into a few fellow HESS folks...one told me about how to find the waterfall. The best thing was to stop at a restaurant, which we found, and ask for directions, which we did. First we had some tea though. The girl was so nice, she drove her scooter to show us. It was very close to where the restaurant is... very handy. (i'll post more helpful info later or in a separate post).
We went down the path that took you to the bottom of the waterfall. In all honesty it was rather small. We had to climb over a lot of rocks to get to the pool.
Our route
When walking back to the scooters Zach saw a snake...A bamboo viper (the Chinese green tree viper). We had Geoff to instruct us to make as much noise as possible to frighten it away. They are venomous so I was making a lot of noise. Geoff knows all about the animal kingdom, our resident Dr Dolittle in Taiwan :)
Bamboo vipers are identified by their green colour (go figure) and they have red on the tips of their bodies. Definitely one to avoid. They won't kill you, but apparently you have a 30% chance of dying from the venom. So getting to a hospital is a good idea if you get bitten.
(A picture pinched from a google image search).
Once we were back at the scooters we had a rest then headed back to Taichung. It was such a hot day and we were disgusting from traipsing through tunnels we all had a shower...separately of course. lol. Zach and I returned to ChungHua and went to Anthony's for film night where we watched a rather strange animated movie called 'Drawn Together'. It was rude and incredibly crude. I don't think I enjoyed it as much as the lads.
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