The temperature got warmer as we travelled southward, so I started wearing less. At this point, I would like to point out that the tour guide we had was an ass. Not only was he solely profit driven, he described the sites very minimally and fawned over people who bought things. Goodness.

Anyway, he failed to warn us that we were going to visit some cave today, which was going to be freezing cold.

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Me freezing in a thin dress, calf length stockings and the mum trying to keep me alive.

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Some temple thing across the quarry.

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Hot coffee that cost a bomb. Suspect that tour guide deliberately ommitted the freezing temp and profited from the hot drink sales.

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Mum very happy after jewelry factory visit. (One of the many factories that we went… for the tour guide’s commission, of course.)

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Mum and her new sapphire necklace. She can’t stop herself when she sees jewelry, haha.

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Interesting treehouse!

If you have been reading my Taiwan posts all the way so far, it would seem that it was a gloomy and miserable trip, but it wasn’t all that bad, really.

Sure, the accom sucked. The travelling sucked. The tour guide sucked. The “scenery” sucked. The weather sucked. The factory and temple visits sucked.

But the boyfriend was there, and that alone made things ok. (Although I’m sure that it would have been so much better without all the minus points.)