A Proposal in Taiwan Part 3 (Exploring Butterfly Valley Resort with My Betrothed)

On Sunday, Michael and I began to explore the paths and trails of the beautiful Butterfly Valley Resort.

How gorgeous is this place??  Putting the money shot up front:

We hiked a very easy, smooth, paved path before lunch.  These are convenient walking sticks that also substitute as snake beating sticks (see the sign).  Sweet.

Michael immediately grabbed a stick.

There were a lot of suspension bridges.

We saw someone in the water at the end of our first hike and thought it would be brilliant to come back with our swimsuits.

We returned to the resort for lunch, changed into our swimsuits and then headed out on another hike heading the opposite direction, figuring we would reach the waterfall the other way.   This hike was tougher than we expected. Because I did not realize we would be doing any hiking on this trip, I only had sandals and dresses, which made the hiking a little more uncomfortable. But it was not bad, nonetheless.  And the reward at the end - waterfalls and the chance to scramble into the water - was too perfect to forego.

Michael on a very high suspension bridge with his walking/snake beating stick.  The bridges seemed straight out of the Jungle Book.

This was the view from the higher suspension bridge (looking down onto the lower suspension bridge).

I could not get over the color of the water here.  Doesn't it look fake?

This is a shot of the waterfall with the suspension bridge we just hiked over

More waterfalls

More waterfall and suspension bridge

This was where we were heading for a little swim.

Here, Michael gets ready to enter the thundering waterfall... 

 
 I captured this shot of him directly under the waterfall.  Doesn't he look like a hologram?

I, on the other hand, did not feel the need to go directly under the waterfall, although Michael made me try it eventually.

The next morning (Monday), we went to sit in the hot springs.  The resort had all kinds of different massages and jets and sprays, which were really fun to play with.  We eventually got brave and plunged between the hot and cold pools.  It was so relaxing and lovely.  I didn't really want to go home...