Allan heads home… we go to Gudong National Park, it’s about an hour out of the city. The city is small and everywhere is rather close. There are a few places that seems really lovely like the rice terraces but they are 150 km away, just too far with kids. Maybe when they are older.
Gudong National Park is highly recommended, it is just lovely, there is very minimal plastic, its well kept, its almost like a Japanese park. They have thought out the park well such that kids don’t get bored. We took a boat ride an they could feed these large and colorful carp in the water. Small islands that we pass have locals doing local things like washing their clothes or making cloth or singing the mountain songs.
Then as we climb the waterfall area, the water is cool, there are 2 waterfalls that the kids are too small for but 4 others that they accomplished quite easily. We had to buy local straw slippers but they were very comfortable and pretty, will bring those back for their school in the dress up section.
Coming down from the mountain, there were butterflies, lots of shaded trees, you could do a firefox as well but in sitting swing position or a slowish roller coaster ride downhill. They had a suspension bridge and also a butterfly park (that we had to miss as it was a big detour for the kids). We miss Allan as action man would have loved this place. We eat a lot of cut fruit and vege’s and cucumbers such that Ike’s poo came out green!
Our try with 18 year old tutors, 4 boys with our 4 kids in the afternoon was not too successful, I think for the older children, Nate and Sage, they were good at following instructions and had more language in their belt but the younger ones, like Ike needs to “get to know” a person before anything can happen. Sage and Jonas are also a calmer pair than Nate and Ike... I think we have scarred the 18 year olds from ever having kids.
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