Hafa Adai~~Aloha~~Alii~~~

Angus and I went to Palau for a vacation. This was my first time abroad with my boyfriend. It was so much fun!! Palau was totally out of my expectation. I thought it would be like Guam where was surrrounded by the reef and so people could enjoy the ocean by walking down to it for a long distance. The ocean view in Palau was more like a rain forest where you needed people to drive you around with boats. And..I tried the snokeling for the very first time.
2006/6/26 Before leaving Angus' apartment.
It was his first time going abroad, so he looked very excited.

I wasn't as delightful as how the photo showed because there were kittens on the car wheels and it worried me a lot. I was afraid the kittens would get killed.
Nothing would disturb his good mood~

He didn't stop that freaking smile for one second~

I was a bit tired because of all the preparation before leaving. It was a hurried trip, we made this quick decision only 4 days before the date.
He couldn't control himself~~~Ha~~~Duty free goods

Angus bought me a Coach wristlet~hehehehe~ Man's chauvinism . Far Estern--Flight EF 601

Even the flight meal couldn't bring down his mood.
After 3 and half hours flight, we arrived in Palau. There was the cool police with a black labrado, too bad I wasn't quick enought to snap the dog.

Thai massage~~ It was incredible. So comfortable. ( It was included in the trip fare)
We stayed in Palasia Hotel. The owner is the Blue political party in Taiwan. The breakfast we had was pretty much the same during our stay.


Actually, I was a bit scared to sit on the speed boat.

The Milky Way ( or The Milk Lake) Beautiful ~~~~~~~
Could I be any bulkier?
Our tour guide, CiaoChang. He is from Mailand China, most of his coworkers are Taiwanese. He was a nice tour guide~

Covered with the mud~

It was supposed to be the beauty SPA, and I forgot to let it dry on me before jumping in the water.
Can you see the jellyfish on my hands? I was amazed by this beautiful creature. They said, it would die if it came off the water. So I tried to hold it steady under the water. When it hit my leg, I thought it was the silicon that boost up women's breasts. Then, there were more coming that women in the same group started to scream with delight. And our tour guide said, it was the jellyfish. I never touched that before~~~
Nobody's islet! We stopped there to rest and had our lunch there~ So beautiful~~ The only thing I couldn't get used to was the restroom!

They built restrooms on every islet, but they were so primitive. I dared not to look into it. The tour guide, Chang taught us another way to release ourselves~
At first, I didn't realize I was holding the shells of scallops. Not after we went to the Hundred-year scallops water zone to appreaciate them~

Big beer belly~~~Ha~~
Short-legged Me~~~
Ocean, ocean I LOVE YOU~~
Hehehe~~~~ I was trying the way our tour guide taught us about....
We picked up one beatle nut in the water. That was bigger than what we had in Taiwan. People here eat beatle nuts too.

Small green lizard~~~ The color was so green and vivid.
Paradise~
This was the water zone where we saw the rose coral.

A-sa, our boat man. He was so~~cool~~~

Nobody dared to try the famous bat soup, even though Chang told everyone it was the natural VIAGRA.

The scallop the guy killed was about 30 years old. People watched it with amazement~

The warrior dance. Those young kids were so cute that even though I couldn't understand what they were chanting, but I knew perfectly that they made some mistakes by chanting in the different rhythm and they argued with each other about it~

I was given the wreath. Chang said, that was how they chose their brides. Don't know if that was true.

This chubby young kid was the popular star in his group, everyone wanted to take a picture with him.

I took this photo at the port. The water was so clear I could see the blue starfish in it! There was blue starfish everywhere.

Whale island~~

The German Channel
We were on the Long Beach. They said, it was about 2 kilometers. Nobody could walk through it on foot before the high tide coming.

I couldn't jump up~~~

The second nobody's islet we had been to!

I didn't know how I looked so thin in this one~~ but I was happy about it.

I was running after this beautiful rooster all over this islet, it seemed to know I was following it. They said, Roosters are the God of Gate

We were so lucky that we had spotted so many new born baby jellyfish in the jellyfish lake. It wasn't so easy to see them in the lake, we had to climb a rough path up and down to get to the lake. Two of us were so stupid, we weren't properly equipped and we wore flip-flops~

It is beyond words to decribe how much I was touched by the thousands jellyfish in the lake. It seemed so unreal~

Lover Bridge~

This man is a TV star in Taiwan, we ran into him in Chinese restaurant.

Cool A-sa~

We had a free day and took some time to view the local view.

The tropical house in Palau.

We were at a local coffe shop, Angus was curious of the leaves. He eats beatle nuts sometimes in Taiwan.

The embassy of Taiwan.

The Napoleon Wrasse, we didn't have the underwater camera to take the photo of it in blue coral water zone, so we used the sign board in the hotel.The last day in Palau. Saying goodbye~~All couples took turns talking pictures with our tour guide CiaoChang.

Hehehe....... I put my head on his shoulder~

The father and son~ They are the relatives of one famous singer in Taiwan. The boy was so shy~

At bai

The last shot in hotel room.

We met two Palauan in the restaurant. They were so generous to let Angus tried the beatle nut.

We were on our way to the airport. A bit moody~~ Thinking about coming back to Taiwan with the dreary work.

Bye bye Palau~~~~~See U next time.

I love ocean. The blue sky with the blue color water~~

I've been to Guam, Hawaii and Palau. All of them are famous for their blue beauty.

I am fascinated to all of them. Each place dazzled me with different facet. I enjoyed them all.

Next destintation~~

Maldives / Great Barrier Reef / Kho Samui ?????