Summary 1

I guess i shall not blog my trip by days, but by the things and lessons that i had gained:

These 12 days have been a fruitful one, not only because of the beautiful sceneries that we had seen, but also the way how this whole trip had fallen into place.

1. Thank God for the way He helped us to plan the whole trip. What we did before we went over was to book the first few days of accommodation, researched and gathered data online and word-of-mouth. I even went to the Taiwan Tourist Association to confirm certain information. Worst of all, typhoon hit Taiwan 2 weeks before we left so certain tourist attractions are closed to public. As such, we just had a rough itinerary and the first 3 days of hostel booking. God knows everything. When we reached Taipei, with the help of the hostel staff, we managed to postpone the Hualien booking backwards as Hualien was badly hit and a few attractions were closed. We decided to stay in Taipei for another day to visit 野柳, which we did not see in our last trip. Then one place after the other, God led us from one district to another smoothly. The best thing is the hostel accommodation, where we booked them 1-2 days before we went over. We had never done that before, though we knew that there are many choices of stay, yet we still believed in God's provision and leading to make the whole trip so pleasant and wonderful.
   
   
2. Thank God for sending 2 angels to help us. The first incident happened when we were at Cing Jing farm, after locating our 民宿 and getting directions, we decided to walk uphill to the farm. Little did we realise that we have to climb many many many many flight of steps and i think by the time we reached up there, we would have no energy left to walk and explore. We detoured back to the main road to take the public bus. THEN THE ANGEL APPEARED!! A male driver stopped alongside and offered us a free ride. The interesting thing is he already drove past us and stopped to call us. It is indeed amazing to see how God works. By the time we completed the exploration of farm, we fully understood the blessings of walking downhill and the agony of climbing uphill.
   
   
3. The second incident happened when we were at Kenting. We were told that the journey took around 2.5 hours, so both of us napped. Then don't know why i suddenly woke up and looked at the screen. As it appeared the road name after the other, i realised that we might have missed our stop. Quickly i went forward to ask the bus driver and true enough, we have surpassed the stop at least 15 mins ago. With no choice, we alighted having no idea where we were. Hoping to catch a cab or hitchhike, we were stranded in some quiet roads at around 10 plus THEN THE ANGEL APPEARED!! A male driver stopped and offered to take us to the hostel. Helplessly we have no choice but to take the risk in hitching the drive. The man is very kind, not only offering us the free ride, but also assisting us in locating the quite-hard-to-find hostel. We really thank God. Without this angel, we would be seriously stranded as there was hardly any cab in Kenting and mostly travel by private transport.

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