the unfortunate accident of me completely ruining a roll of exposed film by ripping it in half in my camera had caused me to blank out for a period of time upon our arrival at Sun Moon Lake (and not to mention the terrible motion sickness i suffered on the way down from Alishan), nonetheless there wasn't much i could do about the spoilt roll of film but to stick to our itinerary. we decided to hop on board a boat taxi that would take us around the lake to two major piers (of which the names escapes me).
pier number one's major attraction are its old streets laden with food stalls selling a myriad of street food. it was along these streets where to my complete dismay i ruined a completely exposed roll of film as i was winding it back into its canister. for some reason (excitement, i presume) i had completely forgotten to unlock the spool lock and force wound the exposed film back into its canister - in the process ripping the film into two parts. i suppose this was merely bad luck in my part, but to lose a roll of vacation pictures would certainly break a person's heart. it was also along these streets where i caught a whiff of the infamous stinky tofu, which even though i had earlier on planned on giving this interesting street cuisine a taste, completely slipped my name as i wandered the streets mourning my lost roll of film.
i pondered on giving said roll of film a burial at sea, but that would've been littering.
what good would all this mourning do?, i asked myself as i got on the boat taxi to pier number two. our ultimate destination was to be the Ci-en pagoda - purportedly the highest vantage point in all of Sun Moon Lake. getting to the pagoda involved a sizable amount of hiking at a very short amount of time as we had to make our way back to the pier to catch the last boat taxi back to Shuishe pier where our accommodation was situated at. and so, it was without pause that we made our way up to the top level of Ci-en pagoda, spent nary three minutes taking pictures of the rather misty view of Sun Moon Lake, made our very hasty descent down to the pier, and finally hopped on the last boat taxi back to Shuishe with fortunately 30 minutes to spare.
and finally, we spent the night exploring Shuishe cracking our heads in deciding a place for dinner, having coffee at the local Starbucks joint, taking long exposure photographs of the pier, and me basically being lost in translation as i try purchasing fridge magnets and ordering a cup of hojicha green tea latte.
Canon AE-1
Kodak Colorplus 200
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