Wild daisy at Lavender Cottage, Hsinchu County, Taiwan.  July 2006

After recently returned from an amazing journey on the Central Cross-Island Highway, through Toroko Gorge and up the Eastern coastline of Ilan, we still have a few days left of our vacation time here in Taiwan.  We’re devoting the rest of today to explore a small part of YangmingShan National Park, which is located just outside of Taipei. 

I’ve been waiting to go here for awhile and was thankfully reminded of its annual spring flower festival by one of my favorite blogs here in Taiwan, The View From Taiwan.   From now until the end of March, an annual spring flower festival is held in the park.  A visit to the National Park’s Visitors’ Center will hopefully shed some insight on some of the floral species I’ve had trouble identifying over the past year.