Endemic Species and Tea Party!

It's been nearly 3 weeks since I touched down Taiwan and everything passed so quickly that I didn't even notice it. We moved again from Shuili to Pheonix Tea Farm and I felt that good things always ended fast. We went to Endemic Specimen Research Institute in the morning to know more about the conservation work done by people there. It was sad to hear about the injuries and deaths caused mostly by road accidents on the endemic species. But it was grateful to know that there are always a group of people who would do their best to save these animals.

Next on schedule was diversity of bats and the lecturer actually brought 3 bats to the lecture room! Everyone was intrigued and took turns to take a photo of(with) it. They were kind of scare to see so many of us surrounding them and probably annoyed that we disturbed their sleep. 

We also went to see the temple remains after an earthquake around Mingsin Academy.

Lastly, we had lessons and introduction of tea culture and science in Taiwan by Mr Chen. He introduced us how tea started here and became one of the highest quality producers in the world. In the midst of the lecture, he served us some of the finest tea that they grow and produce in Pheonix Tea Farm which includes Green Tea, Dong Ding Oolong Tea, Bao Zhong Oolong Tea, Oriental Beauty and Black Tea. I like most of them except for Oriental Beauty, because I am not quite used to the taste of tea mixtures of different fermented grades.

It seemed that some of the course mates were affected by the tea drinking at night and they could only sleep at a later time. However, I didn't seem to any responses to the caffeine level and I turned in around 12 am. We are all prepared to moved over to Xitou. Hope the Typhoon isn't as serious as expected.