Most major areas of Taiwan are locally famous for one type of food or another. Fulong is famous for its bento box meals. When you get off the train you can hear ladies shouting "bento! bento!" and you can buy them right on the tracks or walk directly to a close-by restaurant (which we did). The little box is stuffed with food- some braised pork, rice, cabbage, seaweed, a little fish, a little sausage and a tea egg. Even if you don't like everything in the box, for $55NT ($1.25) it's a great deal and I thought the pork was especially awesome (I went back for a second bento later in the day).
On our walk down to the beach we passed by a house which was drying some little fish on their front step. If I had known that we were going to be passing by a free dinner I wouldn't have blown that dollar on my bento box!
The free area of the beach turned out to be just as nice as the area you pay for. Actually, it might have been even better because there was more room to swim and there was about 1/10th as many people. Above is a picture of the still-very-awesome "other" beach.
It was such a nice day to go to the beach! The temperature was perfect and even when it started to rain for a few minutes in the afternoon the sun was beating still down on us too.
We got a work out from the surprisingly strong current (but not toooo strong or anything) and the waves which were fun to bob around in (witness Melodie "bobbing" above). The water was so clear and blue and warm and great.
When we took the train back home we found out that we had booked tickets for a train which is just like the ones we ride on the subway. There are 3 classes of trains that you can book tickets for in Taiwan, but we had just bought our tickets for the next train leaving. There were no seats on the train when we got on, but we figured that along the way people would get off and seats would become available. Wrong! More and more and more people just kept getting on and nobody ever seemed to get off. I have never seen such a PACKED train, but it was Saturday night after all, so people were naturally just heading into Taipei for the night. Needless to say, when we got home it felt awesome to curl up in bed and watch a movie ("Into The Wild"- we'd both just finished reading the book) and then we Skyped it up with Rufus (and Dayna was there too). To take it easy on our tired bodies, we got up this morning and relaxed by taking... a hike up a mountan :) But that's a story for another post...
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