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A hike with Oscar

Me: Where do you want to go?

Oscar: Mountain area

Looking for buses and car rental stores in a coutnry where there is a "no why" ending to most aruments/quetsions, we took scooter...

Oscar wanted to leave 5am, due to traffic...but not many taiwa go to the mountains...

Oscar had some ideas about the road...

After Jiaoxi we passed by an aboriginal museum, that I wanted to visit for a long time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atayal_people on pic at this wiki link...

http://johansvennung.blogg.se/2017/april/a-trip-to-cueifong-lake.html and passed by on my last visit to road 7...

I was party in a rush since Oscar didnt have the same interest as me with this cultural info...but it was interesting about the clothing etc...

Some nice and colour pic...

And a classic map over aboriginals in taiwan...

...and some names...

...and some info about how people moved before and the similarites with other people in polynesia...

I also got a atayal name...Wadan...

Baibai friends...the guy the the left is Paiwan guy from Pingdong...

A rural area...but still interesting house...

We stopped in Nanshan for some food...

Omg, a family mart...recently opened...just like in orchid island where a 7-11 recently opened...will it kill the old local stores...?

I got some aboriginal food...

Oscar was tired after a whiel...

He likes his sun glasses...here in Lishan...

...we later made it to Hehuanshan...it was so steep and high up so I asked him to walk on the worse part...

...we later made it to the central peak...and we installed oscars drone...

...it was pretty good weather...we expected rain...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hehuanshan

...some guiding tour arrived after us...

...some cluds far away...

Some locals posinng...

Oscar checking his drone...

...after a while we were heading back...

...we planned ot put up a tent, but might ask in a nearby resort if they have a cheap bed...

..must be the highest reosrt in taiwan...3100m high something...

they even had a ski resort here some time ago...

...yep, oscar was willing to pay 1200nt per bed...including breakfast and dinner...

in the background "qilai" mountain..the dark mountain...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilai_Mountain

Dinner...pretty crowded....

ha..they had some oxygen chamber for people...some locals were using it...

...they also had plenty of nice pics...this was the name of the restaurant...

They also had some inspiring wooden sculpture...

...and animal poster...

...bird poster...

...eng of may...11.3 degrees...very nice...

In the morning it was sunny weather again...

Oscar made some drone tests...

Blue sky...I like...

My faovrite moutnain Zhongyangjianshan, as a pyramid in the background...

Scooter to a local store to buy dringk...and sun block on...

...we also left plenty of stuff at our scooter...before heading up on the north peak of hehuanshan...

some small hill which is he trail entrance of the north peak...1000 of locals, as it seems..

We were walking faster than others...alot of passing by people

Locals resting...

Pretty nice filds up here...

up here we could se nanhushan and zhongyangjianshan...I also got tast of how dangerour ignorance is, when some locass told me that that high mountian over there is not xueshan (the second highest peak in tiawan). they claimed that that peak is in yilan...i ownder if they ever been in yilan or know what a coast town looks like...

me and oscar continued towards the west peak...

Oscar saw jade mountain in the horizon...

Also he drove his drone while walking...

yesterday he almost crashed hte drone...I was worried that he might lose it forever if he goes to far away (it can drive 2km away)...

Later we headed back again...passing all the 1000 locals again...

blurry pic...

Far down there is the resort and the highest road in taiwan...

I also saw a new 7-11 pretty high on road 7...i knew that the highest 7-11 befoer was on road 14 towards Puli...i had to stop here and get some stuff...