Taiwan - Day 5

This morning, after breakfast we went straight to the tourist center. From there we took a bus to Puli bus interchange and change to another bus to CingJing. We still have some time left before the next bus arrives at Puli so we decided to walk around.

This is where we are going to stay tonight.

The view from our room. The toilet is huge but there is no bathtub!! what a disappointment.

Taiwan - Day 4

This morning we need to go back to the high speed train station, we need to catch a bus to the Sun Moon Lake.

The bus ride was awfully long, definitely more than an hour. Here's the bus we took.

We dropped our luggage at the B&B and went straight to the ferry dock, we need to take the ferry which will be bringing us to the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village. 

We still need to take a cable car before reaching our destination.

 

I'm a prisoner.........

 

There is a beautiful garden at the end of the village.

Riding the train around the village.

 The B&B - Tan-Hui modern hotel is not modern at all. First of all the bedroom is super duper small, secondly the bathroom + toilet is supeeeeeeeeer duper small. The toilet bowl got flooded the next day with Daddy's poo poo.

Taiwan - Day 3

We have packed our belongings to a smaller luggage as we will be checking out the hotel today and we are moving to Taichung for the next 3 days.
Took the high speed train from Taipei to Taichung, the traveling time is about an hour.

Mum has booked a driver who will be driving us around today. When we reached the train station, it was raining cats and dogs but still we have to move on with our plan as the driver is already there for us.

Our first stop is the Lavender farm but it was raining so heavily that we are not able to see the lavender, was so disappointed..............

The driver drove us to this flower sea festival which is just around the corner, we heard today is the last day of the festival. Here are some photos we took.

The sunflowers are withering.....

Look at the crowds! 

Next we went to the Carton King. The rain hasn't stop.

Everything inside here are made of cartons.

On our way to our B&B - Tomato Rooms, we drop by this mushroom farm.

Here's where we are going to sleep tonight - the Tomato rooms.

My boots was wet and soggy due to the rainfall. Bought a new pair of boots from the night market nearby. Time for bedtime.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

Went to the National Museum on new year day itself. Why on NYD? it's one of the open house days in 2012. That means it's free!!!
You may go to this site to view the open house days for 2012. http://www.nhb.gov.sg/WWW/openhousedays.html

the main hall

Our first stop, down to basement and wow there was a long queue............

People are q-ing for "Dreams and Reality: Masterpieces of Painting, Drawing and Photography from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris"exhibition which will be ending on 5th Feb 2012.

The entry fee for adult is $11 and it's free for student but of course we did not pay anything coz it's open house day.

We waited for about 20mins before our turn came.

will upload some pictures we took

Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888, Musee d'Orsay, Paris by Vincent Van Gogh (he died when he was 47 years old, he cut his ear b'coz he can't draw his ear properly. Quite sad right? he only sold one painting in his entire life, can you believe it?! :-(  )

Will upload more photos next weekend!! stay tune!!

Trip to Taiwan 2011

I'm back from Taiwan!! The weather is damn cold! Ranging from 11-16 degree when we were there in December for 10 days.
This year we took China Airline instead of budget airline like what we did last year, budget airplane has limited leg room, no games/movies and no kids meals!!! haha but mummy & daddy will have to pay more.....

 the flight was late for an hour, we touched down the airport at about 6 plus

they have built a new bus terminal, we took GuoGuang bus to Taipei Main Train Station

The bus ride was about an hour, for accommodation mummy choose Keymans Hotel this time round. The furnishings were rather old and rundown. We will definitely not be coming back to this hotel next time...........

Mum said the room rates are quite cheap so we get what we pay, average per night rate is S$106 for 3 persons plus breakfast. 

We ended day one by shopping around the shops near our hotel.

Day 2 - Sunny day, so we decided to take train down to Shifen to release sky lantern.

the train station is just across our hotel

we first have to take a train to Ruifang, it took about an hour

at Ruifang station we switch to another train, did it remind you of HK Disneyland train?

we alight at the last station, Cingtong

our next stop, PingXi. The train only arrive every hour so it's quite safe to walk on the track

there isn't much to see at PingXi so we move on to Shifen

sky lantern plus fire cracker is about NT200

as it is a weekend the train was really packed, didn't manage to take any photo (too tired to take as well).........

Back to the hotel, hotel sweet hotel zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

To be continue......... *-*