We were woken relatively early by some roosters a couple of properties down. By relatively I mean 9:30 am. The day before at the Mexican restaurant we had noticed that they served breakfasts there so we decided to head there again. They had freshly squeezed orange juice which was awesome. I ordered an omelet which was unbelievable. I think Amanda ordered the same thing, but added some potato’s onto the plate. Again, it’s something she doesn’t get a chance to eat too often. The only potato she usually gets is with french fries from McDonalds.

We headed up with the scooter up to Kenting National Park which was just a short 10 minute ride. The park is basically walking paths through the thick forest/jungle. On Amanda’s previous time here they had caves in which you could walk around and see bats flying around. This time however, all the caves were closed. If I could read Chinese I could tell you why! There were also signs posted everywhere warning people of the poisonous snakes, centipedes, and wasps (not my picture). After walking around for a while, taking a few pictures of old trees, new trees, and weird trees (Autumn Maple), we headed to the lookout tower at the top of the mountain.

I forgot to mention it was insanely windy that day. We didn’t stay on the top of the tower for long as it was just too cold. We stayed long enough to snap a few photos of the surroundings. From the top you could see the China Straight and the Pacific Ocean.

As we started to come back down the mountain, we noticed far up ahead that an animal had crossed the road. We quickly approached it and found it was a monkey! Amanda got a little excited as she had always wanted to see a monkey in Taiwan as they’re apparently in abundance. It didn’t stay around too long, but long enough for us to get a picture.

As we headed back down (almost crashing…my fault) we turned down a side road. We came upon a nice farmers field with some well known rock formation in the background. Later on in a postcard, we noticed that the place we had visited was on a postcard, so apparently it was a well photographed place.

We then visited the main Kenting Beach. There were a few people there, but I think as it was too windy, it made it too cold for people to actually enjoy the beach. We walked around for a bit and Amanda collected coral and shells and I relaxed for bit, just enjoying the view.

For supper we found a new restaurant called Smokey Joe’s. This place had everything all over the walls with art. The menu had at least 200 items for you to choose from too. I chose a tortilla pizza (damn good) and Amanda went with the chicken fajitas. When the fajitas came, we swear it had at least 3 chicken breasts in it. We of course asked for “doggy bags”. They didn’t last long in them however as Amanda fed her leftover chicken to some stray dogs.

We headed back for the night in the tent. The next day would be mostly traveling by bus and train as we needed to cross the island to the east coast.