Leisure
Those Green Hills Beyond the Zoo
Linda Gail Arrigo | September 21, 2006
On a crisp clear sunny day like today you can see forever. That is, if you are standing on the highest point on the southeast side of Taipei City, Erge Mountain, 680 meters elevation, you can gaze all the way across the Taipei Basin to Yangmingshan, Guanyin Mountain, and even the mouth of the Danshui River flowing out into the blue Pacific. You feel like one of the eagles floating lazily in the updraft from the sharp Bijia (Pen Rest) Mountain ridge, stretched out east to west below with rock outcroppings jutting skyward through the green. You can see the deep blue of the Feicui Reservoir to the south. And somewhat later you can rinse off the sweat from the climb in a cold mountain stream pool deep up to your neck. More