Puli and Sun Moon Lake

We had a lovely long weekend in Puli and Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan. We first took a bus to Puli and visited the Shaoxing Winery. We thought it was funny that Shaoxing is Mandarin for "caution." We have heard that you should definitely use caution when drinking this wine!

Don't you just love the little cartoon created to promote wine production to children!



We then walked to a very cook paper making factory. They make all of their paper by hand and we enjoyed learning about the process from our English speaking guide.



We then took another bus to Sun Moon Lake, which is a beautiful fresh water lake with crystal blue water.



We took a boat cruise in the morning to learn a little more about the lake. Too bad nobody told us it was only in Chinese! We still had a good time. Teddy loved wearing his "cool guy" sunglasses and hanging with Daddy.



We walked to a peacock sanctuary that was established to promote tourism at Sun Moon Lake. We saw about 50 peacocks and other birds. This one was the only one to flash his feathers!



We have visited many temples all over Taiwan and Teddy has learned that dragons play a central role in many of the folk tales. Here is Teddy showing his dragon face to one of the dragons at a temple at Sun Moon Lake.



We then traveled to a pagoda overlooking the lake. It was fun to visit but Shana was very afraid inside - very steep stairs and a lingering fear of earthquakes!