Cross Island Highway
It's only a two hour train ride around the coast to Kaoshung on the west side of Taiwan
. . . but we wanted to see the mountains and the interior of Taiwan.
At first it was pretty easy going, and the views were magnificent.
But it's not the recommended way to go, because it's a long steep narrow and curvy road that is often closed due to the rock slides.
It started to get foggy, and rainy, and dark. There wasn't really any place to stop. Finally we pulled over and just spent the night in the car.
The next morning we still had a long way to go.
On the other side of the pass, it cleared up and we had more beautiful views of the mountains, but the twisty road was getting dizzying.
And we frequently had to stop for rock slides.
Maybe we should find another way across?!
We made it!