Hot spring town by Talia.

 






Since Taiwan is a volcanic island there are lots of natural hot springs heated by volcanoes. We stayed in a hotel located in a hot spring town with lots of free hot foot baths. In our hotel there was a pool plus a hot tub spa. It was completely free to go up and get in. It was a lot of fun to go up and swim.





This was in a free hot springs park but the water was not hot, the water was luke warm and had little fish swimming around in it. The idea is that you put your feet in the water and the fish eat all of your dead skin. It is supposed to exfoliate your skin, make it softer and get rid of all your dead skin. It felt really weird and as soon as you put your feet in they would swarm you. This is dad and his feet, mom and her feet, and me, but my feet are not in this.





This was outside an ice cream store. It was definetly not my taste. They had spicy ice cream. 



Comments

  1. nalineeMay 15, 2024 at 7:03 AM

    Talia - maybe you can rate ice cream all over the world (e.g. green tea, spicy, red bean and of course GELATO!). and too many jokes about Mark and his feet and the fish. maybe they are the ones who took his shoes... ;)

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  2. GrandmaMay 15, 2024 at 7:20 AM

    Hi Sweetie. What great adventures you’re having! I love reading your blogs.

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  3. MandyMay 26, 2024 at 12:26 PM

    So did the fish feel good?

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