As we continued south, we came across more and more statues such as this one at the entrance to the village of Nanao, along with various murals and other monuments, erected in honor of the aboriginal Taiwanese.
The aboriginal village of Nanao, Ilan County, Taiwan, one of many little towns we rode through.
Late lunch, which was like the food you get at a Chinese buffet at a mall in the States (but perhaps not as good!). I had my choice of three sides (served with rice, of course), plus some sort of mystery meat, which was supposedly pork. Yes, it tasted as bad as it looks. No, I didn't get sick.
We rode south down Highway 9, which went right along the coast at times and thus offered us some spectacular views (which would have been even better had the sun been shining), ...
but we had to compete for space along the roads with some buses, plenty of cars, lots and lots of huge, nasty trucks(!), ...
and a bunch of long, dark, dusty(!) tunnels.
After 100 kilometers of riding, Day 3 ended at about 5:15 up on our arrival at the Farmtastic Youth Hostel just north of Hualien.
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