Relaxing in Taiwan - Mountains & Lake

We're in this hotel resort you see how beautiful it is absolutely gorgeous. Just a few things that these pines these garden pines they're shaped by pulling the branches down with string look at it these guy wires or strings are holding the branches down and a lot of these branches are shaped just by this all the strings a little further on the scenery changes because this is a tropical area there are a lot of tropical trees and the tropical palms and of course those are tea gardens believe it or not if you've been to in southern china where the climate is very similar tea does grow so don't forget in india the tea does grow in some very warm parts of the country so likewise in china if they go in temperate and the tropical parts of china so you see the oriental influence which you see in japan as well especially in japan they make the walls in this fashion so the surface of those stones are all flat so carefully chosen stones to make that wall so these are the tea gardens and for those who do not know your tea plant it is literally like a camellia plant an evergreen plant the trunks are like camellia i think this is almost like a hobby garden it's not commercial here here we are taking a close-up of the tea bush and you can see that the flowers of the tea bush is a typical camellia flower and the leaves are like camellia leaves so this is tea you see they've plucked the ends i wonder what it tastes like it's quite leathery there the leaves this is just like a beautiful single camellia beautiful flowers this is the first time i must admit i've seen camellia flower again for plant lovers there's the convolvulus morning glory and of course what plant do we have here is the juniper and if you wire them when they are young you get these contorted shapes it's the very same juniper most of the pines you see growing here are all five needle pine i shouldn't call this a japanese garden this is a taiwanese garden so oriental gardens have this type of influence different paving slabs for stepping stones are nice and the use of railway sleepers also nice so this is a working garden for the enjoyment of visitors they're fishing the their own devices they don't have the contorted trunks so the contorted trunks are created by wiring when they're young lovely resort these are individual chalets in this hotel resort blue skies tropical temperature it's only 8 30 in the morning and already the temperature is about 35 during the daytime it gets to 40 degrees and this is the end of november look at this beautiful tree an old tree propped up with iron pillars artistic tree if ever there was one you know in philly we have a 12 tribes of aboriginals yeah yeah do they speak a different language yeah they do they still do yeah yeah they still do but sometimes they were they also speak mandarin during the public at home probably they tell their own languages here we are taking a boat trip around the sun moon lake because the shape of the lake is round in places like the sun and a crescent shape like the moon so it's very auspicious because both the sun and the moon is represented in this lake taiwan is a mountainous country so there are a lot of mountains so this is a mountain lake not a lake at sea level this is about 800 meters above sea level foreign anyway you wanted a chance it's all yours what role effect captain chen hello this way is that is a modern looking building space age architecture this is some futuristic building some backdrop for you foreign i'm in paradise on youtube i don't do it we come to you mom hey beautiful music oh um ah this is our driver