5 day scooter tour: 合歡山 (English)

The next morning started a bit later then planned (due to some nice little visitors to our room who were running around "above our heads"). But after the local breakfast and a not free refill at the gas station, we were unstoppable again.

The next stop of our tour was the 合歡山 Hehuan Mountain, one of the highest peaks in Taiwan. We went up to a height of 3420 meters, with a temperature of around 20 degrees, amazing clouds floating around us and a nice cooling breeze.
As introduced earlier part of our professional equipment was my newly bought Asus Laptop and a copy of Fifa 07, so we combined both things and tried to play the game on the peak of the mountain. But the bright sunlight made it kind of hard, so we had to cancel that plan. But we had the chance to find a special bird, a species which appears to be very rare in Taiwan.
Another highlight while climbing to the peak was to see the only Taiwanese skiing lift ever, but nowadays not in use anymore and there is nothing left but rusty pillars and a ruin of the former crank house.
After climbing back to reach our scooters yet again, we headed towards the next destination. The famous and romantic Sun Moon Lake or 日月潭. A place all Taiwanese couples fancy to go.
We were amazingly lucky and found a nice room (the last one in the hotel), with flat-screen TV, and nice equipment just before the heavy rain started.
The night was filled with dinner, SPA and FIFA.

Hehuan Mountain