The Wonders Of Colours

It was our 3^rd day in Taiwan and our guide brought us to the famous attraction The Rainbow Village to check out some beautiful paintings. I was initially wondering what kind of paintings but I was totally blown away when we arrived.

The whole place was painted with beautiful colors and those painting were really cute and beautiful. There was a story about this painter who tried to stop the government from demolishing the place and Mr. Huang also known as the “Rainbow Grandfather” who was still living here was against the demolishing plan and decide to come out with a unique way of protesting the government. Having some art talent, he started to paint the building out of his own imagination and that’s how Rainbow village was born.

We were also honored to be able to meet the painter himself “Rainbow Grandfather” who was at his own corner welcoming visitors and was happy to sign any autograph with purchase of his own merchandise. 

Since it was raining, we decided to have an early lunch before heading up to the mountain. Our guide, Mr. Wang brought us to a Hakkha Restaurant in Taichung and man… the food was pretty good. I would say that this is one of the best foods we had in Taiwan so far. REALLY GOOD!

After lunch, we travelled up to the mountain for the night as to prepare our trip to the Sun Moon Lake tomorrow. As we travelled up to the mountain, the rain got heavier and when we arrived at the hotel, we discussed with our family and decided to skip the trip to Sun Moon Lake as we received news from Mr. Wang’s friend who was there stating that they were experiencing thunderstorm. 

I was really shocked by the fact that there wasn’t any air-conditioning in the hotel room as they are depending on the nature air outside though they provided 2 table fans in each room. The furniture was old and I thought I was taken back to the 1950s! hahahahahaahah

Mr. Wang brought us to the restaurant nearby and we invited him to have dinner with us. He asked him to place order for the dishes as he knows what was good. My verdict for our dinner, food was not too bad though slightly oily but was quite nice though I can’t really swallow most of it after noticing a baby roaches came out of the rotating centre piece… I was seriously disgusted but kept my cool and hurried my food. 

I was so glad to be back to our room after dinner and can’t wait to be back to Taipei tomorrow. Good night mountains!