Who's that ravishing rural beauty, resplendent in her nightmarket fashions? Why, it's my wife! Since we were in her home town of Cishan for the Chinese New Year (2011), I dragged her kicking and screaming for a day of walking, walking and more walking. It was a nice change from the usual solo thing.
We started off from Keziliao fishing port on yet another perfect day, sunny but not too hot. We were able to follow the coast for a while, but later some steep of not very high cliffs and some bouldery beaches forced us to cut through farmland for a while. I don't feel too guilty about this anymore, as it seems more interesting to go through some human settlements than follow a really nasty patch of shoreline.
Merchants, customers and of course, fish!
And the boats that catch them.
And the usual silly shoreline artwork, if you want to call it that.
The above shots are mainly not very good, the reason being that after the one immediately above, I dropped and broke my camera, and had only those ones to choose from.In any case, we wandered the Kaohsiung countryside for several hours, passing through mixed farming, industrial and residential zones, although mainly rural.
Eventually we found our way back to the sea, and stomped along for a while longer before the good wife's feet got sore. Another 30 minutes of hiking brought us into the town center for Mituo, where we got a bus back to Zuoying.
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