Happy new year!

We took a trip down south to Kenting, as locals call it "hawaii of Taiwan". Indeed, it is quite tropical with many natural sandy beaches.....

Palm trees swaying, western bars, bistros, and restaurants dotting the seaside boulevard, and crowds of young people at night. Apparently, this is the most popular place to come for their graduation parties.....would be quite a place during spring break! In these two videos, we are at a national park where the southernest tip of Taiwan is. As you can imagine, its very windy and it rained, so it was a cool day.

Incredible seascape on this windy day touring the extreme coastline.......

A nice resort we stayed at where Frankie & her school friends are also here.......

We drank fresh coconut water at the seaside bar....

no kidding, coconuts are hanging high above us in the coconut palms all over the resort property....

more sightseeing after lunch driving our car long the coastline......

Very lively at night with tons of people walking up & down the seaside avenue, like kalakaua in Waikiki...

On the way back home, we stopped at some small towns in Taitung, and this one is a quaint little fishing village.