Sitou

Before heading to Sitou, we made a pitstop at Bamboola Taiwan! Although it was a short stop, I thought it was mighty interesting at the bamboo designs.

First bamboo glasses! Must require a ton of skill to manipulate wood into such thin layers!

Chopstick design, the store/office is filled with designs with form, fit & function :)

The table filled with boxes, all with a different method of opening them! The group of us spent a looong time trying to open them, I think in the end all 17 of us managed to open.. maybe 3 boxes? out of the 50+ designs.

After all the running around exploring different parts of Taiwan, we finally made it to Sitou! We spent four nights here, to carry out our experiments. Sitou is an experimental forest of mostly Japanese-cedar (or Japanese fir) [planted] and they have nice hiking trails. This is the gate of Sitou (or Xitou)! It's foggy and humid in Sitou, but the air definitely feels fresher. 

While hiking, spotted a white-tailed blue robin along the trail!

Groupmates working on our experiment!

Very hard at work indeed.

Hiked a few treacherous trails ;) (up gabions)

And made it to the top of the rainbow!