July 6th: Departing Harbin and going to Chiayi.

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  Harbin Pengjia (彭佳) Islet near Taiwan Cloud Sea  
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  Taipei Airport in Taoyuan Bus from airport to high speed rail. View from high speed rail on trip from Taoyuan to Chiayi.  
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  Taiwan is a land with significant heavy industry, chemical processing, and other intensive energy consuming production plants. Yet, it tries to maintain a clean environment and healthy agricultural sector as well. There are some flat plains and valleys in Taiwan, but most of the island’s area is made of hills or mountains. Some crops are covered with a fine mesh tent so that insect pests will be kept off the crops without the use of pesticides.  
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  View from high speed rail on trip from Taoyuan to Chiayi. View from high speed rail on trip from Taoyuan to Chiayi. Temples such as the one in this photograph are frequent landmarks in the countryside. Arriving in the Chiayi High Speed Rail station after a 45 minute train ride, we then took a 45 minute bus ride from the station to Chiayi Park. From our bus window we saw the little communist noodle shop next to the Loving Hut vegan restaurant.  
  Harbin Playground Malaysian Night Heron  
  Twenty-two years ago when I first arrived in Chiayi (in 1990) there were many wooden structures like this one, but now (in 2012) such buildings are rare. The playground in Chiayi park across from Chun-Chih’s old childhood home has been decorted with a new paint scheme. Malaysian Night Herons such as this one are common in Chiayi Park.  
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  Chiayi Park Chiayi Park’s Fukang-An Memorial Tablet A close view of the inscription on the Fu Kang An Memorial Tablet in Chiayi Park  
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  The stream in Chiayi Park. Here Chun-Chih and her siblings would play when they were children in the 1960s and 1970s. The 12 Ancient Cannons in Chiayi Park. Chiayi Park’s Little West Lake.  
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  A map of Chiayi Park. Stone monkeys, a sort of theme in Chiayi, at the Historical Relic Museum (old Shinto shrine) Tree roots along a path in the Chiayi Botanical Garden adjacent to Chiayi Park.  
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  Path in Chiayi Botanical Garden. Path in Chiayi Botanical Garden. A warning in the botanical garden about snakes and bees. The snakes and bees on the warning sign don’t look very frightening, however.  
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  Fungus and fern. Pathway in the botanical garden. Chiayi Botanical Garden.  
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  Chiayi Chiayi Chiayi  
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  Chiayi Chiayi Chiayi  
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  Chiayi Chiayi Chiayi  
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  Chiayi Chiayi Chiayi.  
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  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
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  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
  Harbin Playground Malaysian Night Heron  
  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
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  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
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  Historical Museum in Chiayi Park. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
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  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
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  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
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  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
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  Chiayi. Chiayi. Chiayi.  
 

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