mr. however Sharon is been shown the more relaxed chilled out pace of life

here yeah fun Taiwan just keep surprising me every day with new things

to do the artwork that I'm adding so one just really quite beautiful that a

experience as I just didn't even know I was going to have I love it there's

nothing or something that I don't love it's been beautiful this is the

opportunity of a lifetime

if you are a Haiti person - once you have the floods in time both in the

mountains and be close to the sea you should be doing what dreams me and I are

doing right now are we making you jealous I mean the clear blue skies

lighting valley rise and the chill up atmosphere we couldn't ask for more as

well

when I first found out that I was going to be riding a motorcycle around Taiwan

I was very happy very excited because it's definitely a way that I like to see

be me anywhere because on a motorcycle you just have such a bit of fishing you

can look around here you're it more part of the environment and I feel definitely

comfortable on a motorcycle and have more fun

as you can see this place is like rice fields yes

and like Scarecrow and all the artworks yes so actually this is an area where

the it's another tribe they're called the cover line tribe oh yeah and they

migrate it over here and they like have reminiscent of home you know that's why

they started plantation all the rice fields are brought by them okay yeah so

they set up a new home here Lucas and this water buffalo it's essential for

our culture because they helped us grow like egg without agriculture yeah okay

so some people don't eat beef good people

I guess vast places like Corleone do help you clear your mind and concentrate

more when it comes to creating art this place where we're going later uses local

materials and creative works that have profound meanings

so you actually Genet recommended me to come like take you come to the because

they have like so much I work here and they have the spirits of pomian because

they use three materials as you can see obviously stone and wood and the metal

especially copper okay I love it I really loved it there was you know a lot

of focus on the feet in the eyes and I love the the aged look to the copper to

you know it turns this really nice color as it ages but the artwork had such

complexity to it you know and there's all these other they're creatures you

know and some things even reminded me of kangaroos I mean there was all sorts of

things that you could see in this artwork different people will see

different things but everyone will get something out of that oh so this is the

artists oh great so do you want to meet the artist oh yeah that'd be great

come on up it's over yeah yeah I like that woman Paola I talk I know you say

oh man come on since I only Sonya mr. Hall talking song the hook half a dog oh

so like the master he passed away uh-huh but unfortunately but Christian

Buddha don't he go ahead to follow chalice yeah you know when she said was

you that highlights - I know she she had artwork oh yeah know that nice I'm going

so vertical dose it oh wow it's spread it out this place you

see all the tools you know and this is rich collection no line a larger tank

Kings on their jaw CSF mahaganesha isn't it none advancing that so yourself okay

so the process of making our art today was first of all a bit of a mystery

we just had all these pieces to start with and I had no idea what it was going

to be and we started by drilling the rock which was straightaway one of the

funnest parts of it where we had a water-cooled drill bit into the rock and

the drill drill down and not all the way through then we take the copper tube we

work out the length that we want we've cut it with a circular saw to finish it

off so that will fit into the rock I guess is the stand and in our our

taxable art piece is a fish you're really cool I guess angelfish shape and

then we also had to make the eyes of the fish which is actually quite a hard

decision to make deciding which direction the fish is

going to look in well I put one direction on my fish at one point and it

it made it look crazy and first thought I don't want a crazy fish I want a cute

fish so I had to work out how to do that and then we use an epoxy - two-part

epoxy to glue the whole thing together and so the whole process really only

took I guess half an hour to an hour and and what starts out it's just some

simple pieces ends up becoming something that really has a personality and looks

like actual art I have done something eerie and what have you done I have done

something a bit more traditional but this is what I wanted I really loved

that it's a very happy fish this is it and

here I love it thank you very much yeah miss you on paper don't open so hard I

came we can have everything like in our daily lives get the wood get the stain

it's a very real piece about this is very much part of nature and I love it

it's part of this area right here exactly now cheers to our teacher so I'm

really happy to bring this home to Australia with me because I'll be able

to tell that story you know it's not just gonna be something you see it'll be

a story behind that for anyone who sees it whether they want to hear it or not

I'm nervous and excited because I've never been overseas before I only speak

English so already I'm worried about the language but I tried to learn some

Chinese but it's really hard I know only three or four words it's very hard

what do I want to buy here I want to buy a helmet yes so I can ride a bike here

you know that would be great because I see that everyone drives on the other

side of the road here so that would be fun to ride around and every ride on the

wrong side so that's the first thing I want to buy I mean I've got a hundred

thousand NT dollars you know you Taiwan dollars a hundred thousand so I should

be able to buy the best helmet I think you know the best helmet that Taiwan can

make but that's what I want damn you're good yeah very good thank

you what are you thinking getting a helmet

before you have a motorbike

hi lady arriving I wish all my entrances are like this nice to meet you more

specifically welcome to the east coast of Taiwan very nice it is one of my

favorite parts of Taiwan and for this reason it's beautiful

you know it's actually a little bit like the sunshine coast of Australia you have

the ocean on one side and then you have these beautiful mountains that just come

right into the ocean yes it's nice and I love the dark blue line is just there

like deep water yeah yeah yeah okay so we're excited to have you here in Taiwan

this is your first time ever you leave the country

that's right first time out of Australia Wow difference it is it is and we have a

lot of fun for you sharing it's gonna be taking you around and we thought since

you know you know your way on two wheels we're gonna give you this by pagelets

and also a hundred thousand NT dollars to spend however you wish you're already

getting your foot on the ground well this is you this is real and thank you

so much what about you like don't worry about me

built edit that in later

this is my ride

right

now we're gonna make something that might come in handy for our trip sunny

days you know

okay see this place you can see all the the works are with like leather artworks

oh good look at the patterns because this place is about like Aboriginal

culture oh good and so this is the the same sort of Pacific island people that

went all through the world and the the language you know that the tribe you

have in Australia Aboriginal probably have the same roots yeah you can see the

other cultures of the Pacific Islands around the world in this you know but

it's still completely unique as well some of the the symbols are just things

that I've never seen before it is so unique he says hey look it's all there

yes holman help me out there how it goes all that's all tongue take your tool

turn how do you see you got new yen mm-hmm nah take a detour

oh this is hot I'm Jack has it you one time baby I just won nice to see you

good to me only my parents tickets between the chanson know I got Union s

Virginia Beach audition so my weave tomorrow Italia Josh's new tumbled or

wanton lady huh nice how you want it quiet today it'll mainly - Anton how's

it about what Kate you want you always do you oh wow that facial tattoos in

cult is pretty uncommon any other one that I'm really aware of is the Maori

culture I'm gonna have those sort of circular patterns that they do as well

but to me it's it's kind of shocking to think of facial tattoos but of course

for them it's part of life what the fun part is we get to make something

actually make something what you want to make okay do you want an easy one oh

good I pick an easy way so yeah well we we start off with a piece of natural

untreated liver and it's harder than it looks because it was so hard for me to

be accurate even when I took my time and I was really slow and I am other thing

and wouldn't get quite exactly the way I thought it would

so that there's a lot of work in it but it was a lot of fun you know just eating

things and making art with them with a hammer

it doesn't get better than that so that part was definitely the best for me

alright Grimsby tell your story okay well my story is it's not a very

pictorial story but as you can see it's the story of falling in love with my

girlfriend simple and easy yet and I'm yeah so this is like since you're from

Australia so you know it kind of looks like a koala does it does it absolutely

that's okay well let's do the dyeing okay okay the dyeing is harder so when

you're finished hammering you have to to get choose your color or colors if you

have one and then carefully and that's the hard part they carefully and evenly

rub that into the leather for me it just went on really thick at the start and

then everything quickly yeah winter nothing so I slowly kept building up

layers then when you finally finish between the color on then there's like a

fixer a sealant that goes on top and it's quite good too when you put that

sealant on it goes from looking like this kind of homemade thing you know

this like kind of craft so an actual product that was like magic it was just

rubbing on a magical you know layer of professional hair so I mean mine looked

so much better than I thought it would thank you this is very fashionable now

we are ready to travel with our sunglasses as our gear that's right

let's do it

after a long day it's time for us to treat ourselves to a fine-dining travel

like the local and eat like a local tonight's on me

as you know this is your first official meal dinner here in Taiwan so you're a

vegetarian and a vegan that's right so this is what is special

about it it's that it's all local food Oh which one I want to try I really want

to try this car never seen the corn okay does that say that's a whole new told

Shammi Ananda okay it's it so does it go on that oh yeah you expect

them to be fibrous no it's not it's really easy to chew it bite me

what I'm think obj sorry chance look up I can challenge it then they apparently

messed with my mind being oh then think of a second it's so colourful inside

retreat I said be true you're gonna be rude

good guess mushrooms mood I think something else okay

I think yes but a net but it's really nice it's some Lotus oh this murders

yeah well okay I've had the Lotus chips before and the Lotus trip juice so she

chopped it and it's all like it hi wow this is lettuce truth that is really

good I hear amazing cool I think we should try the soup first

because she doesn't want to tell us what it is

mm-hmm okay so she the way down there

by lowball radish so this is rubbish this is mad I also put a Ming I achieve

had it just nigga your nigga young poor he's always young little bothers you

don't hit today I'm sure with horns I don't know how I downed or the know your

was y'all that y'all do or we all yell for they also should that now is how you

shower your yards yeah yeah this is perfect the the radish soup I that was a

type of radish I guess that I've never tasted you know the radish in Australia

that I eat which I like it tastes completely different I'm enjoying the

meal tonight as I was saying before I thought that I would eat well until I

won but I didn't know it would be this good this is so good it's just this meal

if you need to chair we need to come back here oh we have to come back this

is so good can I become Taiwanese you know in a

week I don't want to leave this food behind I didn't know what to expect from

food in Taiwan you know and there's so much variety here and it's such high

quality you can taste the freshness you know you can taste the the quality

of the cooking it's not just different flavors it's that the food that's gone

into it the raw vegetables and ingredients are so nice and that comes

through in the flavor and the food

looks good and sing back yeah yeah yeah this is the only one and you know

actually like this is quite a high peak as you know we were like yeah yeah yeah

salt very muggy and if we were lucky we'll get to see the Sun sunrise yeah

and there's a Pacific Ocean yeah the fog is there we might not see the ocean

of course like when there's fog you know yeah Sarah hi Neil let me go again to

say what do you expect I have no idea I have no idea

well yes that would be great yes yeah so you know if we're lucky enough tomorrow

will either see the Sun Rise or will just see the ocean yeah okay really have

we get to see the Sun Rise from up here in the mountains but yeah I mean we'll

still see some nice colors yeah you know it'd still be good we gotta see the

ocean yeah

what have you and you do get to enjoy it all that right yeah oh you're yes that

is nice this is my first sunrise in the northern hemisphere that sound sir yeah

and it it feels like that too and just perfect layer of clouds on the horizon