2018-05-21

1st Expedition– Wutai, Day 0 & Day 1

Day 0 & Day 1— Travelogue, the trip to Wutai, journal for the day


  1. Exhibition Opening Dinner Night
  2. Found didas kampung Taiwan version
  3. Prep work. Been a busy week, putting up the exhibition, opening event, talk/ presentation & demonstration, and now preparing for the first trip to the south, with these two cameras
  4. Send off dinner before trip #studio94tw team hotpot!
  5. My hand luggage, two cameras about 20+kg, and 500gm clothes
  6. Local train to Pingtung, after high speed rail from Taipei *note hand luggage
  7. Yong Nan, (Chinese name), our local pickup from Pingtung station
  8. Wutai village, Pingtung District, population ±500, village in the clouds
  9. Totoro, is a native here too #rukaitribe
  10. Paripilipi, grandfather native farmer with his sun-dried millets. Helping out sort the harvest.
  11. Chaomee (Millet), helping out locals sort out their harvest, wine and rice additive
  12. Local dinner, rice in bamboo and #babiguling grill wild boar, Babu in rukai language
  13. Back breaking crunching coffee shells, by native grandma grower
  14. Best coffee in my life!!! Sun dried coffee beans, hand crushed shells, hand sorted beans, hand roasted and hand brewed! I don't know how much more involved one can be in making a cup of brew! Native coffee grower and roaster, #Rukai tribe of Wutai mountains, Pingtung District, South Taiwan #coffee #KantaTaiwan (just the right amount of sour to bitter, best brewed 3 days after roast). [It's about 1,000NT for 270gm, she was awarded village champion, journal for the day: we startled her while walking in the dark back through the village, while she was sorting out her recycle-ables, which then turned into a fifteen minute conversation bout everything in the village, to being invited to her home for a coffee-making session, to being reconnected to long lost grandmother (all grand aunts are called grandmothers), and served the best coffee of our lifes, together with sweet potatoes, and a night's worth of back breaking crunched shell/ beans sorting, that was just our after dinner adventure]
  15. Planning for the week with Luc, library references, have a packed week

1. Exhibition Opening Dinner Night

2. prep work, 2 cameras

3. Didas Kampung

4. Send off dinner studio94

5. luggage 20+kg, 500gm clothes

6. Local train Pingtung

7. Yong Nan, pickup
8. Wutai village, Pingtung District, population ±500, village in the clouds
9. Totoro, a native too #rukaitribe
10. Paripilipi, grandfather, sun-dried millets
11. Chaomee (Millet)
12. Local dinner, rice in bamboo
13. Back breaking crunching coffee shells
14. Best coffee in my life!!!
15. Planning week with Luc