Day 7: Onward to Taitung

So today was a much more successful day than yesterday. I was pretty down after a short ride and knee pain, but today proved to be a much better day. We rode around 80kms and arrived in Taitung by train after dinner. 

We started off the day with some hill climbs and a visit to the Tropic of Cancer monument near Ruisui. Nothing that special actually, but neat to think that we landed on some important arbitrary line drawn by geographers. 

Neat that on the way to Chihshang we saw a church. I've been surprised that I've seen at least a few churches along the way. I hope that they are thriving and will bless their communities

We arrived in Chihshang which is a town primarily famous for its rice and train station which was an important stop for refuelling train riders with lunches on their lengthy journies. This old restaurant is the most famous one at that, selling wooden lunch boxes to customers on the trains. 

After lunch we went on a "little" bike ride exploring the countryside. 

Our exploring actually took us to the next town where we took a train to Taitung. Glad our biking portion is over because I'm pretty tired of biking. But overall today was a great day and the most actual pedalling I've down since day 2. 

Taitung is rather small city. We had dinner at the night markets today. Other than that we haven't seen much. We will go to Green Island which is 45 mins off the coast. Will update more on that tomorrow.