On a gorgeous August day, our car drives out from Hualien City on Provincial Route 7, southward along the coast, through Fenglin and across the Fataan Bridge to the largest Amis tribal village in all of Taiwan: Fataan.
八月豔陽天，車過花蓮市，沿著台九線公路筆直向南行，穿過鳳林鎮，駛過馬太鞍溪橋，就進入了全台最大的阿美族部落──馬太鞍。