Destination: Taiwan
Duration: 13 Days 13 Nights (Nov 18~Dec 01, 2015)
Day 2: Taichung -> Cingjing
Breakfast was overnight night market food – I must say
the tako ball (日船章魚小丸子) still tasted scrumptious overnight! Gosh I miss it so
much! We would be going to Cingjing today thus we checked out of Mountain Kafta
and jumped on a local bus (台中客運) with
our Easycard for a free ride (within 10km radius) to Gancheng Station (干城站) to
get our bus ticket to Cingjing. Gancheng Station is the 1st starting
point of Nantou Bus (南投客運) to Cingjing before the Taichung HSR Station (高鐵台中站)
so it almost guaranteed an available seat anytime.
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| Bus Station just less than 50m away from our Minsu |
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| Bus Station taken over by Monsters?! |
The counter to get the ticket was right at the Gancheng
Station when we disembarked from the local bus. We just walked in when we saw
the crowd in front of the shop and got ourselves 2 direct tickets to Cingjing
at 9.25am which was just 10mins away from the bus departing. We got on the bus
without issue and off the bus to Taichung HSR station. I was shocked at the
queue at Taichung HSR station for this ride and not many of the people there
managed to get on the bus since it was almost full when we departed from
Gancheng Station.
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| This is where you get the ticket at Gancheng Station |
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| Our Bus is here! |
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| Eating Leftover Pepper Biscuit from Last Night |
The bus made a brief stop at Puli Station (埔里站) to
change the bus number but basically we were still on the same bus to our final
destination – Cingjing Farm (清境農場-国民宾馆). The
bus driver announced that we’d arrived at Cingjing Farm Station so we wouldn’t
miss out our disembarkation. Our Minsu of the night was Shiyai Taoyuan (事外桃源渡假山莊) which we
booked through Booking.com for TWD1820/night. In order to reach the Minsu, we
needed to walk a short distance uphill from a small road right beside Swiss
Garden (小瑞士花園). We basically just follow the single road direction and found the
Minsu right at the end of the road. Hooray!
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| English Style Mansion on the Way to our Destnation |
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| Swiss Garden at Cingjing |
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| But we are heading to our Minsu at the road beside Swiss Garden |
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| On the Way! |
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| 400m away?! |
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| Still not yet?! |
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| Finally! |
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| There are lots of Nice Plants! |
We did our check-in and ate our simple
lunch of Korean chicken leftover (都教授來自星星的炸雞) from Fengjia Night Market (逢甲夜市) last night. Yes, we definitely over-estimated our appetite last
night. *facepalm* After a short rest, we went to the reception area to ask
about how to get to Green Green Grassland (青青草原) and the
person in charged there actually drove us there and gave us suggestions on how
to return to the Minsu afterwards.
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| Our Room! |
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| Bathroom! |
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| View from our Room |
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| At the Courtyard |
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| Reaching Green Green Grassland |
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| Zoom in to a Windmill Faraway! |
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| A Panoramic View |
It was a sunny day so sunblock was
definitely a must! My friend had sunburn during her visit thus it was important
to apply sunblock eventhough it was cold there. There were lots of tourists in
the Grassland but unfortunately there was no sheep show since they only had
those on weekend. *pout* One observation – the sheep there were starving! Why
would I say that? Well, there were many machines that were selling some dried
concentrated grass to feed the sheep (TWD10 per box). Once you bought it, the
sheep would follow you everywhere so that you would feed them! Some sheep
bullies even tried to push other sheep away so that they could have the food
for themselves. *facepalm*
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| Getting our Entrance tickets! |
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| Let's get our hands dirty! |
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| More Stairs! |
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| Sheeps! |
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| FOOD! |
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| Feeding Sheep! |
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| Look at this Happy Fellow! |
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| I think I'm getting Attacked! |
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| Even Sheeps love FOOD! |
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| OH NO!!!! HELP!! SHEEP ATTACK! |
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| Finally getting rid of the sheeps! |
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| Cingjing! |
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| Sammy: HELP ME!!! |
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| Feeding BB Sheep! |
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| Lots of Green! |
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| This Sheep can JUMP! |
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| So many Sheeps! |
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| Sheep Skeleton? |
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| At the Sheep Castle! |
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| Sheeps of LOVE?! |
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| Sammy loves Sheep! |
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| It's Autumn! |
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| The TREE! |
After some FUN times with the sheep, we
proceed to get to the horse show by walking downhill. But before reaching the
destination, we made a brief stop to have some snacks of goat milk ice cream
and sausage. The show was sort of a cowboy show with Mongolian. The youngest
presenter was only 4 years old! *Jaw dropped to the floor* I must say the
Mongolian guy was HOT!!!! *drooling in secret*Did I mention that the horse
KISSED me on my nose when I was taking picture with him?! UGH!!!!
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| Sausages!!!! |
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| Sausage with Cucumber & Mustard |
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| Continue to the Horsie Area |
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| Goat Milk Ice Cream |
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| Little Windmill |
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| Big Windmill! |
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| Mini Windmill |
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| Let's continue on! |
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| Castle from afar! |
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| Wow! |
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| Standing on a Horse |
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| Cute!!! |
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| Mini Horse! |
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| Getting Attacked by a Horse! |
After the horse show, we continued
downhill on “the Great Wall Trail” (歩歩高升步道) during sunset and the steps were never-ending. Thank goodness we
were climbing down as opposed to climbing up! *whew*
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| The Sun is Setting |
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| 487 Steps? I thought there were 499? |
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| Working on it! |
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| The Sun is setting! |
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| No Sun anymore! |
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| We made it! |
It was dark when we reached Swiss Garden
(小瑞士花園) so we
went in to take some night view pictures. Apparently our tickets would be valid
for daytime tomorrow as well. It was a small garden and we overheard something
funny from another tourist – “This is like The Mines in KL!” LOL!!! Our legs
were breaking thus we did not complete the trails before going to Cardboard
King (纸箱王) to take some pictures.
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| Stumbled on Mini Kukukai! |
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| We got one!!! |
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| In Little Swiss Garden |
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| Glowing Flowers? |
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| I think it has a name |
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| Water Fountain Show |
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| Little Lanterns |
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| Paper Box Train! |
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| Big Balloon! |
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| Santa! |
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| Paper Box King? |
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| Sammy & Mini Kukukai! |
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| Little Zoo! |
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| Little Sheeps! |
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| Landmarks! |
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| More Landmarks! |
Dinner was at the 7-11 beside Cardboard
King – did I mention that 7-11 in Taiwan serve awesome food?! The Japanese Spicy
Oden (關東煮) was so yummy and suitable for a cold night and they were having
promotion for only TWD10 per dish. We bought the special noodle for Oden and
made it a bowl of spicy noodle with loads of balls. DA YUM!!!! There was also
cawanmushi and some bento involved but the Oden was definitely the star here!
We also bought some Taiwanese beers to wash down our food. =P
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| Are those Cats? |
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| Free Photoshooting in 7-11! |
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| Cute huh? |
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| Oden!!!! |
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| Dinner! |
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| Braised Meat Rice - Just Okay |
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| Cawanmushi! |
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| Spicy Oden with Noodle! YUMMY! |
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| LOVE 7-11!!! |
We made sure that we bought everything we
needed before starting our uphill walk to our Minsu. The sky was clear that
night and we were able to see many stars in the sky during our walk.
Unfortunately our camera was too low end to take pictures of the stars. There
was a cute dog lying right in front of our room door when we reached there. The
doggie proceeded to ignore us even when we stepped over him to get into our
room. I guess we had ourselves a private watchdog now!
Next Day (Cingjing -> Sun Moon Lake -> Alishan)
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| Our Minsu at Night! |
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| Cute lil Guard Dog |
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| How CUTE!!! |
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| We have Electric heater on Bed |
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| Supper! |
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| Creme Brulee! |
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