Yeah..so happy i am back from my taiwan trip which last for 8 days…sound very long right but i travel only half of taiwan "hualian","keelung","taoyuan","taipei","beitiou","wulai","Nantou","Chuifen", "Puli" etc because taiwan is much bigger than singapore so to travel from one city to another will take more than one day but i am still quite satisfied as i am able to enjoy the nice mountain scenery and nice foods where i bet you that you all never really get a chance to see or taste in spore. I didn’t do much shopping as the prices doesn’t make much different when you shop in spore and i am more interested in mountain scenery view but not to worry i still bought alots of things for my lovely friends…We took many photos and the disappointing part is that i don’t look very nice in the pictures as i really very fat..hm..must keep up with the losing weight plan.
I really appreciate sean’s colleagues in taiwan who were so warm and friendly to us, bringing us around treating us nice foods driving us around. Without them, we won’t be able to easily travel up the mountain "合歡山" around 3,416公尺feet and above to see the nice clouds/rainbow and mountains but the temperature in only 9-12 degress plus raining and can’t you feel the coldness…but the view is really fanastic and that is most memorable part in my entire trip. I doubt in spore we can have that kind of nice view. We also stay at the "嶺仙渡假山莊 ming su" (like home stay type)-www.linghsien.idv.tw around 1900 feet above in the mountain..the air is little but we can see the nice sunrise and the weather is cooling.
Throughout the trip we went to the famous "cold spring" and "hot spring" as well. The cost is cheap and feeling is great. we do go some of the famous shopping spots like "Ximending", "Shilin", "Wurenpu", "Shida", "Gongguan", "Taipei 101", "New York", "Sanyue", "Zhongshan" etc..The hotel we stay in is Wish hotel-www.wishotel.com.tw very near shuailian station which is very convenient to go around those shopping areas and places of interest. I hear that many singaporean stay in rainbow hotel at ximengding but i still feel if my friends going to taiwan do stay in "Wish hotel" as it is very comfortable, new and cozy hotel. In taiwan, they have over 100 TV stations to watch with many interesting channels for 24 hrs..sound so different.
The bad thing about the trip is the hot weather as the weather can go up to 36 degree which is really too hot to tahan and furthermore there is typhoon on the 28th July where most of the activities "going to Danshui" were cancel and thus we went shopping at nearby but frankly speacking we do not feel much of the typhoon as the typhoon come from hualian and we are at taipei.
After the trip i feel quite tired as you know that we went up to mountains and walking around but i feel it is worth it as it is the time i can really forget all my works and stress and breathing relaxing in the mountains.I guess all my friends who went to the trip with me do have the same feeling with the joke in mind "Ni hao qiang wor"…lolz..
if next time i am going to taiwan again, i will go to the other half of taiwan as i hear there are many different interesting spots at different cities which were very interesting. I do recommended my friends to go taiwan to see the nice mountain scenery other than shopping as these spots are nowhere to be seen in spore.
