Paiwan Harvest festival
I spent some days in Pingdong with my Paiwan friends...
It was raining some, so some activites were postponed
Cloudy skies
Some ducks in trucks
And people without helmet; yep im at the south eastern part of taiwan
Some aboriginal patterna
Geai and his binlang chewing cousin
We were treated some sweet milk
They painted some bricks on the wall
We also had some tried taro, which was said to be aboriginal candies
They have plenty of churches here...so the villages looks like the alps (atleast some of them), in asia they separate christianity and catolism...
We also passed by a paiwan resturant wher ethey had paiwan traditional outfit
I might buy some of these one day...Im still waiting for my mom (since i was 18) to give me a traditional swedish outfit...seems like this takes time
Johan with paiwan hat 1
Some paiwan statues
Johan with Paiwan hat 2
And some barbie Paiwan dress
We had some tea
and some onion meat stew...I was asked to cook, which I said I could, given that I get the right ingredients, my paiwan friend Geai seen my cook before
Omg...Skarsgård in Tarzan...
Just like the Bunun museum in Ruishui, they have many statues of aboriginals here too
More locals without helmet
We later headed to some festival activites...tribes compeding...
Masalut...is like "thanx"...
Some traditional dress i guess
And some tug of war between clans...
Another traditional dress
Next sport was to fill a cylinder with water and with this fill a bucket, first in time
It got really slippery on the floor
Later people started the archery fight
Some aboriginal pics on an open house...similar they have on the east coast...
more competitions
And some locals driving without helmet
And some small turtles...very cute...
Later on we took the car again...no seatbelts on...the southern style
Geai didnt use one either
We passed by some aboriginal paintings...
And headed to the second longest suspension bridge in taiwan.
The rain was in the air...(literary)
Geai and his cousin were guiding us...
We also inspected some aboriginal pattern in graffiti
And some art wall...
Omg...a temple for dogs?
Mr Bubba and Geai...Bubba was from new jersey, but lived in Hawaii for almost his whole life, except 5 years in taiwan
The bridge was 305 meters...
And had some holes in it...
We also passed by a village with many statues...
And had some beer later on...
The locals also put up some fly paper...where the flies got stuck
and geai started to play...they are catholic...and their church encourage music...so many people here knows how to play instruments...almost like home...but there we learn it in school...
Local herbs
Another cousin of geai was good in painting...and made some tattoos...
This are snails...a local speciality
I made donald duck on my arm...
Scooter with no helmet: we are in the south of taiwan....
We also had rat(?) i was told...interesting....
The whole family gathered...even though people keep coming and leaving...
Some wall paintings...i guess this is traditional dress
Local church visit was made later on...
Some catholic...
And the music...
And all the priests...from the 1950:ies...
The priest was from south of italy...
He gave bread to the catholic people
Geai got...
And the main purpose of the night?...the wine...a.k.a blood of god?
Later on we danced some aboriginal dance...
Omg...the guy in the middle worked heree for 40 years...
Wuwu were preparing a mattress while we returned home...
And the cousins were singing karaoke...the main thing here in Danlin...
Others were siting and listening...
Later on i brought my swedish drinks, which I was asked to bring...the jäger i brought from holland...
They seem to drink alot here...but im not sure if it was only when they had visitors...
Some red labelled ricewine...
A table full of drinks...
Geai was drinking water once in a while...
After some hour Geai wasnt drinking anymore...
The locals thought it was fun...
This is Geais "real" brother...the others were cousins..
People having fun of sleeping Geai..
Later on the locals showed some local dance...I joined up...
Tradictional dance...just like I dances in sun moon lake and with the Amis at the east coast
Many of these people dance in clubs...
Pose with locals
Wuwu got up early...
The youngsters went to bed late...
Some planning of what to do the day after...
Wuwu liked to give the guests food...since I like to eat alot. I think me and wuwu is a good match...
Some milk and bread...
I think the locals ate some baozi similar thing
Selfie with Wuwu
Geai was sleeping
Day 2 it was equally hot...
Some paiwan breakfast
And the locals were already u
Some aboriginal paintings...not traditional i think
We went for a walk...
It ended up wit a mountian clumb..
A pretty steep and sweaty walk
But we retured after a while...seems that this was a very local path
Atleast 1 climbing club has been here...(they use to put up ribbons)
Some paiwan statue at the village entrance...was next place to pass by
We also mingeled with some local kids
And the family prepared BBQ
Omg....Geais brother had some cool hand tattoos...
We later on went ot a local river
Seems like many people in the hood goes here...
It was rather deep at one place...
So the locals jumped into the water
I prefered swimming...even if i dont have any upcoming swimming race in schedule...
It was perfect temperature in the water..around 25....i think
After some hour the swimming session was over
And we were heading back....I wonder if there is any trail from here to the east coast...along the river...that would b interesting...
Geai lingering on the street back at Danlin
And the BBQ started
They filled some beer in a beer cooler
Some locals joining up...but the guy to the left livedin Sanxia taipei
Wuwu was also ready to party...she didnt speak mandarin, only Paiwan language and Japanese...I tried to say "aregato"...I hoped she understood
Geai opened the millet wine jar later
It is very sweet...i tried it in the himalayas..when I walked at the Mt Everest base camp trail...
Locals coming and going
And more millet wine
Geai doesnt like to drink near his parents...but he make a "small exception" today...
Bubba always drinks...
I like geais hairdo...it looks very "warrior"
Family feast
Pingdong skyline from Danlin...
We were heading to the archery court
Trying out to shoot before it became too dark
Some professional archery guy in action
It seems like the hardest thing it to tense it enough...
Then u also need to aim high enough...
We missed all our tried...except one...
The others said that the bulls eye shoot was the profeesional guys atempt...I chose to believe it was my lucky shot...
Mr Archer went homt after some time looking for the arrows...
Another Pingdong skyline pic
And some paiwan dinner...pretty nice
Time to head back to the north...c u next time Danlin!
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