My hostfamily in Taiwan

Yesterday I finally received an e-mail from Alice Lin who is our contact person from the Secretariat of Round table PCO. In this letter were mentioned the contacts and a place of my hostfamily. I hope to get in touch with my hostfamily before I'll arrive in Taiwan but it's good that at least I know where I'm going to stay.I found out that my hostfamily will be in Changhua county which situates in a Central western part of Taiwan and I'm happy that I'm not in a hostfamily in a north or south side of Taiwan so that I can travel around easily.In the group "SayTaiwan: People going for the Centennial Homestay" in Facebook I recognized that we've split all over the island but I hope that I could travel together with the people from the neighbour counties not only with my hostfamily.As I'm a tourism specialist and I have a deep passion for traveling and tourism then I've already checked in a map where does Changhua county locate.

Here you can see Changhua county which is highlighted with a red colour:

So I assume that Changhua county is in a good location and is it not far away from the major touristic attractions such as: Tainan city, Taichung city, Alishan national recreation area, Lugang's historical and cultural site and others.

I've already checked what is most appealing and by what is most known in Changhua city and I found out that Changhua is a home of The greatest and tallest Buddha statue in Taiwan! It is iconic 92m-tall (!!!) statue and The Great Buddha sits on a 22m-high lotus flower base on top of Baguashan, or Eight Trigram Mountain. The statue is hollow and actually it's possible to go inside to see colorful dioramas that depict the Buddha's life. Behind the statue, it's also possible to find the massive Great Buddha Temple. The third floor is a favorite spot to watch the sunset over the city.

Here you can see a picture of The Great Buddha statue:

When I saw this picture even in this moment it looks superb but I suppose when I'm going to see in a real life it will be more fascinating.

I found out as well that Changhua was largely settled by immigrants from the Chinese Provinces of Fujian and Guangdong. They brought along their unique customs and culture, providing many of the colorful historical sites found throughout the county, such as the Lugang Longshan Temple, Lugang Old Street, and Nine-Turns Lanes.So I'll have a chance to see also some of the historical, religious and cultural sites bu the Chinese ancestors.

As I'm a big lover of different kinds of the culinary specialities then I'm happy to know that Changhua has the local food specialities which you'll not find so much in the other parts of Taiwan.

So they have the local culinary delicacies such as: the Taiwanese meatballs (which you eat them hot), the Cat mouse noodles and Oyster omeletes.

Here is the picture of some Changhua's delicacies:

This is all what I got so far but surely I'm going to do a little more research what's more worth to see around the county where I'm going to stay during my trip in Taiwan.

Have a great day and stay tuned! :)