Trip to Taiwan May 2015

We had a trip to Taiwan on May 2015 with 4 of us 

( thanks Bunny's for sponsoring the dolls as our model)

breakfast before departing to Taipei at KLIA. Super couple is ready for holiday!

 While waiting for boarding...

Super couple need to take flight as they want to save some energy for the trip.

 In the plane...

enjoying in the flight... much comfortable in the flight than flying by our-self...

upon arrived, you can get the local SIM card at the airport with discounted price.

the shop is on the left once you get out from the custom clearance.

the SIM card package for 10days unlimited data usage is TWD500 (~RM55).

Highly recommended as the data coverage is so good and ease your accessibility. (most of the restaurant provide free WIFI too, but this is for your own convenient).

First night we stay nearby Xi Men Ding, a short walked around the night market and back to hotel for rest....

Super couple have a mission. They managed to bring Xiao Wan Zhi all the way from Malaysia to Taipei, and tomorrow they will send her to the new owner at Taiwan.

On the next morning, the taxi driver arrived. and the Trip is now officially started.

first destination to the Yeh Liu 野柳. The weather is very hot at the time we at the GeoPark, we managed to take some photos and leave for lunch.

Initially we wanted to have seafood around YehLiu, but suggested by the driver to eat somewhere further as the price at the tourist location is very expensive. At last we reached Jin Shan and lunch at the local restaurant. 

After lunch, we continue to Jiu Fen 九份, the weather is very nice and the fog have make the environment much nicer.

Here, the super couple visited a tea house and have a lot of fun with nice art and nice foods!

 we like the environment of the tea house, it make you feel very much relax and enjoy some quite and soft chat with your friends or partner!

highly recommended for good service and reasonable price- http://www.jioufen-teahouse.com.tw/en/?lang=en

 we left Jiu Fen at around 7pm, the night getting dark and the lighting have make it more beautiful. 

we should stay longer at this place....

Next we depart to Yi Lan.

We reached Happy Homestay at 9.00pm at night.. pretty nice homestay with 3 bedrooms at 3 different floors, all with same price TWD 1600(discount given by the owner). We decided to take the 1st and 2nd floor room as tired to bring up the heavy luggage to 3rd floor.

Breakfast included by the Homestay. After breakfast, we continue our trip.

Next , we visit to the YiLan Distillery Wine Museum. http://event.ttl-eshop.com.tw/yl/

We spend almost 2 hours in Museum, and meal again...

this is my favorite dish... 

After the musuem, we visited 幾米廣場 before we depart to HuaLian.

on the way to Hua Lian, we stopped at a fishing port for Lunch.

we saw a temple just right beside the fishing port. we visited the temple, it was 3 floors high temple and each floor have different characteristic of Ma Zu God. Most interesting is the top view from the highest floor.

arrived at Hua Lien around 7.30pm and check in to this hotel- Mini Voyage Hostel.

The room is just very simple and modern. thumb up!

No breakfast provided by the hostel but they do provide free coffee, tea and cup noodle during night time.

We our breakfast on the nearby breakfast cafe and continue to our next destination,

We spend a short while at the Lake 鲤鱼潭 before we depart to the museum 

nice lunch at the musuem, the fish is very nice and big in portion. and the price is definitely reasonable.

after lunch we have almost 1.5 hours journey to the seaside. thanks for the driver with good skills with majority of hilly road.

We reach the seaside around 4.30pm. it is windy and we don't even think to fly but just lying and enjoying the mountain and sea view.

We are so lovely...

Around 6pm, we leave the seaside and going back to HuaLien. This time we stay at the homestay.

On the next day, we depart at 8am after breakfast.
First stop is the QiXing Lake. It is so sunny and alot of crowd at the seaside. We spend around 40mins and leave to the other place.

The native restaurant. We are enjoy it!

Break and Coffee at the Taroko National Park

the road to cross the mountain is very challenging, some of the road is only applicable for 1 car to pass thru. Thanks to our skillful driver Mr. Liao.

the highest point at the Taroko National Park. it is freezing cold.

by 9pm, we manage to reach TaiChung. Mr. Liao much friendly to invite us for free Ice from his own cafe at TaiChung.

At night, we stay at the 汽車旅館 - 春天國際旅館  

This is one of the experience you should try whenever you have visited to TaiChung. The car can be park at the ground floor, and the room is at the upper floor. the room rate is very reasonable with TWD1800 per night and the room is very huge. breakfast is provided too.

on the next day, we when to Sun Moon Lake for a short while, before buy some tea and proceed to Miao Li.

today schedule is much relax and we stop by the small Hakka village for lunch and some photo shooting.

the sunset and at Yu Ren Ma Tou 漁人碼頭

the Mazu event at one of the temple near to the 淡水老街

after TamShui, we went to ShiLin night market, but the market is disappointing us. The foods store are located at the basement which make it feel like just a normal foodcourt. I think Shi Lin need to improve the stores and the pathway to attract back the tourist.

on the last day, we spend most of the time at the city and especially at the eslite bookstore. One of the best bookstore we ever visited and we have really bought bundle of books. We spend almost 8 hours at the bookstore and at night we visited the RaoHe Night market for foods and last minute shopping.

Before going back, a surprise from MAS with Mother Days special for the lucky lady on board.

now we have a new pilot friend!