Tainan

I'm back from a 2 day 0 night Tainan trip! Yup, we saved on accommodation and travelled to and fro Kaohsiung and Tainan because train fares are much cheaper ($3sgd). The long traveling hours did take a toll on us though- we snoozed in the bus/car when transporting from place to place.

Guanzilin mud spa

From Xinying Train Station, transfer to 2 shuttle buses. Took 3 hours in total from Kaohsiung =.=

I love interactive experiences so I was really looking forward to the mud spa!

There are a few pools that you can try ranging from fish-eating-dead-skin pool, hot spring pool, ultrasonic pool, lavender pool, phyto-something pool, a cold water pool and a real swimming pool lol. I would say that the fish pool was the most interesting to me as a first timer. Really fun and ticklish haha.

We actually expected to see a mud pool which was the highlight of the attraction. However, the mud was in a tiny bucket at the corner of the hot spring lol @.@ nevertheless we applied the mud and... photo taking time!!

It is beyond me how the girls managed to smile properly. I couldn't move my face because the mud hardened!

Food- 桶仔鸡

Guanzilin is famous for this dish so we had to give it a try! 600NT for a whole chicken @.@

I realized I forgot to take a picture of the chicken but I did take:

Yingxin hard at work ripping the chicken apart. (it came as a whole)

Very yummy indeed!

We then took the (extremely infrequent) public buses to visit some of the famous attractions.

水火洞

We cabbed to and fro Guanzilin for 1000NT... Think we got scammed...

We expected to see a huge fire from the cave as per internet pics, but it turned out to be rather small @.@ we were impressed that the fire was boiling the water but doesn't get extinguished though.

To make our cabbing worth it, we started to take excessive photos, which resulted in:

That was all to the attraction lol....Nuff said. 

林百货

This place is known for architecture and having a lift from the Japanese Occupation according to my roomies. Looked pretty modern though:

The rest of the building consisted of rather overpriced souvenirs haha.

府中街

Many small shops and some good food!

There was this really nice peach flavored ice shop!

We all loved this fried instant noodle dish!!! Somehow we saw the chef put the same seasoning as per normal Maggie Mee but it still tasted better!

Hahaha unappetizing shot but it was good!

Sicao 绿色tunnel 

Finally made it to the second day where we 包车! No need to wait and rush for public transport and so so convenient! Back to our princess life style haha.

This was a 200NT boat ride through low lying vegetation. 

Can't tell from the picture, but the weather was scorching hot at 31 deg!!

Haha random pic of our transport! 8 seater taxi!!

Sio Salt Museum

Went to some salt exhibition center next! They had salt flavored ice cream that we didn't try @.@

Pretty salt samples on display!

Anping old street

Long streets with a wide variety of food! 

The lemon+winter melon tea was so refreshing in the weather!

While some of the princesses went to the fort, the rest of us hobo-ed outside. Most rejuvenating 15 minutes of the day. Shiok!

Hahahahha XD

Qigu Salt Mountain

I thought we would see a mountain as huge at the majestic ones from the other parts of Taiwan, but this was a short salt hill HAHA. 

Luckily the skies were nice so we could take more Picts!

Jingzijiao Tile-paved Salt Fields

Fact of the day: sea water is gathered to these salt field and daily, workers would gather the salt into a pile

Love this photo that our driver took for us!!

Beimen Crystal Church 

This church was a completely empty chapel that we could only see from a distance! I guess people just book them for wedding purposes? Many people snapping photos from afar!

胡厝寮彩繪村

Interesting village with really well-done drawings on the walls!

Takes around 1 hour to cover the whole place because the attractions are quite spread out! A map is available at the entrance.

Flower night market

It was amazing to see so many stalls because it was an empty land when we drove past in the afternoon!!

They have such a variety of stalls and even one that sells pet hamsters, rabbits and... a snake. 

Anyways we had so much food, like 柠檬爱玉, sausage wrapped in chicken, 锅贴, garlic bread and egg tart! Tummy was happily filled hahahahha. 

Then we made our way back to Tainan train station and went back to our comfy apartment at Kaohsiung.