Thursday, April 28, 2011

Taiwan trip - 23 April & 24 April (Hsinchu Ecological Green World, Neiwan Hakka Old Street, Taipei)

All the way to Hsinchu today!
So excited to be visiting the Green World but too bad we din have much time there, only 1.5 hours.. In the end, we did not even cover 1/4 of the world... A slight pity!




Pretty swan


HUGE Pythons~






This is their car ride, similar to our "tram ride"


Pretty place, but no time to explore




It's so hard to get a good pic of these birds as they are alwiz flying and running all around!




Entrance to Neiwan old Street


Me trying to mimick the gorilla... Many asked why my tongue cannot be like the gorilla... I tried n failed! Haha...




Enjoying movies from the 60s while taking our lunch




The streets of Neiwan




Dinner for tonite.. Super nice steamboat... With lots of ingredients


All the seafood, I still prefer veges.. haha..


This is the best part.. thinly sliced bacon.. Usually I dun eat these as I find them fatty, but these are really really good.. Just 2 brushes in the steamboat and they're ready! :)


Chuan Fu, the place we had our oishii steamboat


Shop opened by Zhang Fei, the famous braised pork rice, but we din have a chance to try it


Ticket to the Fei Yu Qing concert, his voice is really good and so are his songs.. But most of us fell asleep after the 3rd to 4th song.. coz there are no other performances or dances


A pic taken on the last day while in Taipei, before we headed for home, with my precious granny!


The 2 sisters, my mum and 2nd aunt! :)

Taiwan trip - 22 April (Tea Garden, Sun Moon Lake, Ma Zhu Temple, Taichung)

Another long day on the coach ride! But it's worth it.. The tea garden and the Sun Moon Lake especially captivated me!








The owner of the tea garden, he's 60 but super funnie and interesting... really thumbs up!








Sun Moon Lake


On the sun Moon Lake Pier!


On the boat ride!

Taiwan trip - 21 April (Fo Guang Shan & Fu An Gong)

Today, we're heading to temples!


This is the best breakfast we ever had, in the Taidung hotel.. Lots of varieties and the food are all super nice.. Not enough time for me to take all the pics as i was bz attacking them!


Part of the hotel view from the outside.. It's freaking huge and nice.. This is only 1/3 of the building...


Fu An Gong aka Tu Di Gong temple


The amazing furnace which will "suck" in all the joss papers when placed at the entrance. You don't even need to throw them in!




Entrance to Fo Guang Shan







Taiwan trip - 20 April (Yilan, Hualian, Taidung)

We spent the night at Yilan after the night market visit at Luodong last nite.. The hotels so far have been good and nice! Today, we're heading to Hualian via the train and then a 4.5 hrs drive to Taidung, the hotel with hot spring in each bathroom!


The view from the hotel in Yilan


The outdoor garden of the Yilan's hotel


Pretty flowers just outside Luodong train station


Ways to kill boredom while waiting for our train. I actually started this first, then dad n aunt got addicted as well... Haha...


At the train platform




Soursop






Hualien high mountain spring water coffee, it's nice!


Tribe shows in the Taidung hotel


The hot spring bath




Huge hotel room.. I actually had issue sleeping here.. Probably coz the room is too big


Nite view from our Taidung hotel room


Day view from the Taidung hotel


Outdoor hot spring.. Did not go as it was super cold~