My Summer Vacation

At first, I did not plan any goals for my summer vacation. I just regarded summer vacation as a do-nothing holiday, such as be a couch potato everyday or sleep all day. But I found that there was just little change in my daily life, I was wasting my time and life as well, and then I decided to plan some meaningful short trips, because there were so many fabulous places in Taiwan that I have never been to. After careful deliberations, I totally chose three counties in Taiwan, which were Taichung, Kaohsiung and Yilan.

First of all was Taichung. Taichung was definitely an urban life, the traffic and buildings were similar to Taipei, but there were still some interesting scenic spots we have to visit. One of those famous spot is Rainbow Village. The whole walls of this small village were all painted by an old man, he was about 70 years old and still painting everyday, living in Rainbow Village. We were lucky to meet old man when we arrived there, and he introduced some of his works to us. His painting style is very special, there just four main pigments of his painting, including red, yellow, black and white, although there just four colors on there, the wall still looked colorful. It was so amazing!

The next stop was Kaohsiung. We spent five hours on the train to arrive in the south of Taiwan. Kaohsiung was really a big city, but there were more beautiful scenery than Taipei. We took the MRT there; I thought Taipei's MRT was bigger and also more crowded than Kaohsiung, and you do not have to worry about standing back to back on Kaohsiung's MRT. The main purpose that our family traveled here was going to visit the E-DA World. In there, E-DA World was just like an independent town, you can live in this town without went to other places, like the land of joy and plenty, everything that should be here is here, such as amusement park, shopping mall, schools, and Crown Plaza. The life in E-DA which made me feel I was really on a vacation! We even made a decision that visit E-DA World again next summer!

Finally we went back to north. We visited Yilan where faced the Pacific Ocean on the east. Yilan was like a country, some of theses places were all rural areas. There was hard to find a 7-11 so it was really inconvenient. We decided to rent a car there, and traveled along the coastline, it was really beautiful, we were on the car and it was raining outside but the sun was still here, suddenly, the rainbow came out! All of us were screaming at that time, because we never seen that huge rainbow in our lives.

Although I did not go abroad this summer vacation, I found more marvelous view on this beautiful land and that were all invaluable! I think that is the reason why the Portuguese called Taiwan Formosa!

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