TRPASS

Every summer vacation, our club in senior high school would take some trips. Though, fewer people joined a year after a year. We still have very relationship with each other. This year, we had planned a big trip: traveling around island by taking train. Due to TR-PASS, we didn’t have to spend too much money on transportation. Nonetheless, I had another trip in eastern of Taiwan. As a result, I decided to meet with them at Taimali.

It was a summer night, and other people had already been at the mountain of Taimali. At the same time, I was at the night market in Taitung city. I had to ride motorcycle from Taitung city to Taimali. The distance between two of them wouldn’t be too much, but the road of mountain wasn’t good at all. The altitude of mountain is about 1000 meters, so the temperature is lower than city. When I arrived, the tricky game would be beginning. However, the game made the role unhappy in final. Then, we just went to see the stars all sky. The second day, the day started with sunrise-seeing. Thus, we were very tired because there was no enough time for us to sleep well. After finishing our breakfast, we went to enjoy Hemerocallis fulva all round the mountain. It was the most important goal for us to visit there. In the afternoon, we kept up our train trip. We took the trip to Hualian, including a dude ranch and night market. We had such relaxed schedule due to our plan had to match up the bus or train. At Hualian, it took most of our time to find out some famous products. Fortunately, there was no too much something to eat in night market. By the way, we took こうかごう when we went to Hualian. It might be the oldest train in Taiwan, but it was surely that it would be the most exciting thing this night.

Beijing

Last year, we went to Shanghai for a trip which the weather and environment is similar to Taiwan. However, Beijing, the capital of china includes more culture from the Ming Dynasty to now. Some buildings which were built more than 200 years ago are still exist now a day. For another reason is that they just held the Olympic Games last year. As a result, we decided to go to Beijing for a trip this summer vacation.

It was in the mid of July. The weather was very hot in Taipei so was Beijing. We took airplane to Tianjin first where is near Beijing. There were lots of leased territories in Tianjin after losing some wars, so we can see many different kinds of buildings built by different countries. We won’t stay at Tianjin for a long time. The second morning, we took the high-speed rail to Tianjin. It is also similar to Taiwan’s, but regulations are much stricter. We have to register our ID number before buying the ticket and check our packages before entering the train station. Moreover, their train station is much bigger than Taipei main station which is also including many kinds of railway at the one place.