Taitung

IBooked a 2 day trip to Taitung, first day to travel around Taitung attractions in the car we booked (5000NT for 8 people for 1 day) and second day to go green island!

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Day 1

Spent a very very fulfilling first day! 

Took the railway to Taichung Railway Station from 6 to 10am! Quite comfortable! Except that there were some tourists talking really loudly onboard and one of my roomies went "SHHHHHH!" really loudly, but unfortunately they still didn't get the hint LOL. She then stared at them until they realized they were talking too loudly. Such a brave roomie hahaha. 

Glad that we booked a car to travel Taichung so that we didn't have to worry about public transport!

Chulu Ranch

We started off with the ranch to catch the sunlight!

Haha have been seeing so many cows, goats and sheep that it's starting to get repetitive LOL

Walked around the small ranch and tried to selfie with the animals as usual

Snapchatted this huge pig that looks so scary compared to the little piglets from Jingyuan farm

Wee a swing to play with!

 

The ranch is pretty small so we covered it fast!

Sanxiantai

Went to this super windy beach called sanxiantai. The winds were the strongest that I've ever experienced!

Resulting in photos with my hair completely pulled back LOL.

Pixilian 比西里岸部落

This is basically a photo stop with many wooden deers to take photos with!

Secured my hair with my friend's cap! Very important to have a cap or hair tie to fight the winds!

Xiaoyehliu

Went to yehliu in the first week of exchange so I was quite curious how xiaoyehliu (small yehliu) will be. Turns out there are much fewer rocks but there are many "runways" that act as good photo spots! The girls were excitedly climbing rocks to take photos but the wind felt like it was going to blow us away so I refrained XD

There were a couple chilling in a pavilion, the girl playing the 二胡 and the guy on the guitar. And the music was so romantic and nice!!! -heart eyes-

Tiehua Music Village

We thought we wouldn't be able to appreciate the "music" village but were pleasantly surprised by the beautiful lanterns!! Really felt like a scene from Tangled! 

Unfortunately it was quite dark so our faces looked quite dark in all the pictures.

Xingxingbuluo

Our 包车 ends at 7pm that day and this starry place was last on our agenda. We were quite worried since we didn't know what time the stars would come out. But it's really hard to go there by ourselves so we just decided to try!

And yay! We saw many stars! Although it looks like nothing in my picture above because none of our phones could capture the stars. XD Happy that we didn't make a wasted trip!

Wenhua Night Market

Finally finished all our agenda and it was time for dinner at the night market! We immediately tried meesua and oyster omelette when we entered and they were yummy! The ice cream waffle dessert was good also! 

Somehow we were still hungry and went hunting for more food... Lol.

And we went for 姜母鸭！(Ginger Female Duck?) I love love steamboat and it was slightly cold so it was good! Each of us bought a serving of meesua (yup, again) and dipped it into the soup and it was so good! Duck was overcooked and hard though. Overall still a good dish!

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Day 2

Unfortunately, we were unable to go Green Island because the ferry closes at 2.30pm as the Typhoon may hit today. :(

So we held a midnight meeting for a new itinerary and it became another 包车 day to visit more attractions! This time it was 4000NT for 8 of us! :000

Bolangdadao

Went to cycle around at the paddy fields! It was a super windy and sunny day!

The scenery and sunlight made the girls super excited for pictures.

I hid under my umbrella while watching them in amazement.

Anyways it was a fun 2hour cycle with awesome scenery to enjoy!

Cishang Biandang 池上便当

Went to try this famed bento! It was not spectacular but we really enjoyed it after the exhausting cycling trip.

There was this classroom place where we took a lot of pictures haha

Pretending to do class discussions.

Fake trains to take photos with! XD

Luyegaotai (鹿野高台）

This place is supposed to be mainly for hot air balloons and paragliding but now's not the season so we didn't get to try it!

Paragliding take off platform

So in the end we tried the slide down the slope! It costs 100NT per person, which meant that $4SGD vanishes in 15 seconds that is the duration of the journey down. XD still pretty fun as the slide was pretty fast and we got a nice picture:

Unfortunately I lost my shades on the way down TTTTTTTT

Toyogi Hot Spring

Last stop of the day was Toyogi Hot Springs! There were quite a number of pools to try: hot (44deg), cold (33deg), jacuzzi pool, saunas, steam rooms and even a real swimming pool LOL. The counter even sells eggs for us to cook in the hot spring but I think it would take forever to get cooked if the water is not boiling? @.@

We stayed at the pool meant for whitening the longest to reverse the tanning from cycling this morning X.X Jacuzzi pools were comfy as well! 

So that sums up our 2day 1night trip to Taitung! A very beautiful place with lots of greenery. Glad the weather was good too! On the railway back to Kaohsiung now! :)