We took a train ride on Tuesday to the east, with Sidney, another PCT church staff, Carys, and 
the couple from Wales we met at General Assembly. They take such good care of us, everything is arranged, train ticket bought, we have a driver waiting for us at the other 
end. [I get the feeling we are not the important people these people seem to think we are. They are treating us too nicely - Scott]
We had lunch at this mountain restaurant serving aboriginal food. We had a sample plate called "The Hyper Romantic Meal". We love the English names they give to things here, we take alot of pictures of signs!
We spent the afternoon at Taroko Gorge, an amazing place. I don't think pictures will do it justice, it is so massive and wonderful to look at. [If you have seen Western Brook Pond in Gros Morne Park NL try to imagine that only about twice at long, twice as high, and half as narrow - Scott]There are swallows nesting in the caves and circling around. Very beautiful. While we were walking along, reading all the warning signs, telling you rocks can fall, walk quickly, we hear a crack, like a loud gunshot and across the gorge a rock falls - about the size of a human head. Amazing, but scary to see. It took a long, long, long time to fall to the bottom. We walked a little faster after that! They had an accident a few years ago, a monkey climbing on the rocks caused some to fall, hitting a Chinese woman. Now you have to wear hard hats. There is no way a hard hat would help you in that situation, but maybe it covers them from lawsuits. We looked for monkeys, but didn't see any.
We made some interesting stops in the afternoon. We visited a church that has a cave behind it.
During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan the Christian's were not allowed to meet, but there was a woman who would hold services in this small cave, which was a safe place to meet because the Japanese would not go into the cave because of snakes.
We spent the night at the Theological Seminary, where we talked to Canadian missionaries (Murray Garvin) and a few other staff who had studied in Canada, knew Knox College and alot of the same people we did. The seminary treated us to a local specialty for dinner, clams!
On the way back to the Seminary Sidney had a little talk with us. He said it would be best if you did not leave the dormatory tonight and go outside. The van will drop us off at the door and pick us up in the morning. There are poisonous snakes around here and they thought they should let us know. We were glad we were on the second floor! We didn't see any snakes but went to sleep listening to an exotic bird, and woke up to roosters crowing. That is something that doesn't happen every day!
Anne
the couple from Wales we met at General Assembly. They take such good care of us, everything is arranged, train ticket bought, we have a driver waiting for us at the other 
end. [I get the feeling we are not the important people these people seem to think we are. They are treating us too nicely - Scott]We had lunch at this mountain restaurant serving aboriginal food. We had a sample plate called "The Hyper Romantic Meal". We love the English names they give to things here, we take alot of pictures of signs!
We made some interesting stops in the afternoon. We visited a church that has a cave behind it.
During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan the Christian's were not allowed to meet, but there was a woman who would hold services in this small cave, which was a safe place to meet because the Japanese would not go into the cave because of snakes.We spent the night at the Theological Seminary, where we talked to Canadian missionaries (Murray Garvin) and a few other staff who had studied in Canada, knew Knox College and alot of the same people we did. The seminary treated us to a local specialty for dinner, clams!
On the way back to the Seminary Sidney had a little talk with us. He said it would be best if you did not leave the dormatory tonight and go outside. The van will drop us off at the door and pick us up in the morning. There are poisonous snakes around here and they thought they should let us know. We were glad we were on the second floor! We didn't see any snakes but went to sleep listening to an exotic bird, and woke up to roosters crowing. That is something that doesn't happen every day!
Anne
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