Suao Cold Springs

Suao Cold Springs is located in the side of the road of the Suao Cold Springs Road, in Yilan County, Taiwan. There are only two Cold Springs in the world, and the Suao Cold Springs is one of the largest. The admission for residents of Yilan County is free. It is a welfare for people who live in Yilan.

The Suao Cold Springs is a kind of carbonic acid spring with rich volume of carbon dioxide (CO2)and iron. The water tempreture is about 20 degrees centigrade, and the water is pure and clear. It is drinkable and bathable. You will not feel cold when you get into the pond at first. Within two minutes, you will fee heat all over the body and will feel free and cozy. The best one is it is therapeutically.

Diamond

Diamond is unbreakable. It is renowned for its hardness. It is composed of 100% of carbon element. Owing to diamonds are formed at high temperature and high pressure conditions, its array is very neat. It is the highest hardness of mineral and is high vlaue of diamond. Diamond is the durable gemstone, due to its large hardness and its great ability to refraction light . It colorless and transparent which can be decoration and engraving. Usually, one 7 grams of diamond was formed wiht 100 tons of blue mineral after cutting and grinding.

The main four important place of origin are Africa, India, Russia and South America, in whihc South Africa supply the most of gemstons. Carat is a unit of mass for gemstones. One carat equal to 0.2 gram. Most diamonds come form the ancient pluton and placer deposit of the bend of rivers. The largest diamond in the world weigh 530carat which was mounted on the imperial cane in UK. The tourists can see the tremendous diamond from The Tower of London.

The Twin Towers of The World Trade Center

The World Trade Center was located in Lower Manhattan in New York City. It had seven buildings. The World Trade Center Towers were the tallest buildings from 1972 to 1973. The most remarkable were the North Tower and South Tower. The North Tower stood 1368 feet tall, was completed in December 1972. The South Tower was 1362 feet high, finished in July 1973. They are a symbol of American Trading.

Unluckily, it was destroy by terrorism - Osama Bin Laden in September 11, 2001. It is said that it was a suicide attack and caused both buildings collapsed, serious damage and death. The death toll of the attacks was 2,996, including the 19 hijackers. This is the event of September 11. It will never be forgotten by the people of New York or American. However, the site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial.

Maple Tree

There is a particularly maple is called Sugar Maple. When autumn comes, the leaves will change colour from green into red.

Maple tree is a species of hardwood. The color of the leaves will change into Golden. It is very spectacular. Canada has became a prominent tourist attraction of leaf-watching because of the particular landscape .

Maple is the major source of sap for making syrup. There are two ways for collecting the sap from the maple tree. One is to drill the hole using a drill and hang a bucket or container on the hook of the spout. Another is using plastic tubing to collect the sap and directly transmit the tree sap to the sugar house. Then, proceed with filtering, boiling at the evaporator. Finally, the maple syrup is produced.

Sashimi & Sushi

Sashimi and Sushi are the most representative dish in Japaness food. They are also the favorite food for japaness.

Sushi is a kind of Japaness snack. It consists of cooked vinegared rice that is topped with other ingredients, for instance fish , seafood, thin omelette , preserved radish and so on.

Sashimi consists of fresh raw seafood, such as salmon , Tuna,Octopus, and Sea Urchin etc., which are usually sliced into thin pieces and served with soy sauce with wasabi.

Amber Gemstone

Amber is the resin of Conifer. When the tree resin dropped into the ground and pass a long period , they fossilized. This is the Amber. Its color is yellow with transparent. The one contains insects can be a decoration, such as ant, fly, spider and mosquito etc.

The most superior amber is extracted from the Baltic Sea along the coast. The handicraftsmen in Republic of Lithuania are famous for creating amber gem. European believe that amber possess magical power which can repel evils. 

Amber is composed of 79% of carbide, 10% of oxygen and 11% of hydrogen . It`s hardness on Mohs scale is between 2.0 and 2.5. It will melt and spread the flavor of rosin when heat the amber get up to 150 degrees centigrade.

Koala

Koala is an unique animal in Australia. They also known as Tree-kangaroo. There are three different categoris.

The baby Koala will follow their mother at the first year after giving birth. No matter where their mother goes, the baby Koala will go with their mother. Similarly, the mother Koala will carry the baby Koala

on the back and go around.

The shape of the Koala is round with fat. Their motion is slowly. Koala need over 15 hours of sleep a day. They are very critical about food, so they eat the leaves of eucalyptus. The eucalyptus is composed of 50% of water, 18% of fiber and 13% of poison. The leaves of the eucalyptus could make human died. However, Koala has a long long intestine and they can detoxify through their digestive system. Therefore, they will not get toxication.