The pleasure of an exotic international vacation is usually only something that is found in the artificial reflections of hotel balcony photo shots and bullet-point amenities.
Don’t get me wrong, we all love push-button access to anything from 24-hour room service, on-premises spas, to large flat screen televisions with movies galore.
But oftentimes at the tail end of the amenities and when the sun sets on the 3–4 or 6–7-day vacation, there may be an empty feeling. It symbolizes what was sought but not experienced, yet was the purpose of the vacation in the first place: serenity.
It can be found on the island of Taiwan.
Continuing on our experience through the land of what the Portuguese called Formosa, meaning “beautiful island,” we find ourselves on the east coast at Taroko National Park.
