And we're off! The sign at Neiwan train station. *

Neiwan train station. *

Unlike the scenic Pingxi line, most of the Neiwan line is like this. *

Just your normal electric cars. You can't book seats and at the weekend you are unlikely to get one. It takes about 50 mins from Hsinchu. *

Looking out from the station. *

What Neiwan is most famous for. These cartoon characters were drawn by Liu Xing-ching (劉興欽) and are everywhere in Neiwan. *

They are on the floor... *

...and you can even try on heads. *

And Liu Xing-ching (劉興欽) himself in his store. Turn right out of the station and the store is on your left hand side. *

The miners used to watch movies here. The cinema dates back to Japanese times. *

A lot of the old equipment has been left around the cinema. This is the old camera. *

Nowadays the cinema is a restaurant, but they still show old Taiwanese movies as you eat. *

An old style shop where miners would have spent their hard earned wages. *

This is Hakka country and so the food has a definite Hakka flavour. Here we have fatty pork, mixed fried vegetables and a bottle of plum juice. *

It was a bad season for typhoons and this area was especially hard hit. Most mountains had some evidence of landslides. *

This house was very lucky. That's their garden strewn over the mountain side. *

There is good honey in Neiwan. Not sure how safe the open hives are though. Still, these bees seemed docile enough. *

The second and smaller of the footbridges in Neiwan. Coffee shop to your left and right, bridge straight ahead. *

It's not that stable! It is pretty high up and goes over... *

...this river. This is from a coffee shop with outdoor seating. More typhoon damage can be seen to the river wall on the right. *

And a complete map of Neiwan. We kept it big so you can see and read the details (Chinese only but you can match the pictures to location). *