A trip to Kaoshiung (高雄)

It's been more than a year since I'm back from Taiwan, but yet, I still haven't finish blogged about the trip. Guess I'm really really lazy...

Just gotta finish what I have already started, so let's continue with the journey to the 2nd largest city in Taiwan - Kaoshiung, which is located at the southern province of Taiwan.

We reached Kaohshiung by train after we get down from A-li shan. 1st thing we do, check in. The B&B that we had arranged is just 5 minutes walk from train station, so it's pretty convenient. I think I miss this part from my previous post, but erm, I did some stupid thing in Taichung, I left my phone there!!!

A million thanks to Stacy and Stanley from WenGoodShop as my parcel safely arrived in Kaohshiung. And thanks to the owner of Dream House (梦想小屋) for keeping that parcel for me.

Da-dang, our room in Dream House, it just cost us NTD1900 for a night. They provided Wii too, how nice is that? ^^

As soon as we dropped our bag, we are off to our 1st destination, Dream Mall (梦时代广场), it's the largest shopping mall in Taiwan if I'm not mistaken. We went there by MRT， KaiXuan station(凯旋站) and take the free shuttle bus from there.

So cute rite the bus? :)

inside the Dream Mall

Me and mei le take a ride on the Ferris wheel which is located at the roof top of the Dream Mall, it's also called as the eye of KaoShiung. It's $150 per entrance.

Next, we took MRT and went to the XiZiWan station (西子湾站), from there, we took bus and finally reach the next tourist spot, Former British Consulate Residence at Dagou. It's more like a museum, but the view there is simply breathtaking, especially during sunset. There's a university nearby too.

Although is in winter, and it's really a very windy nite, still, we decided to try out 阿婆仔冰，which is really famous in KaoShiung. Apparently, it's a really cold night, and we end up to be the only customer in the shop.

yummy～

We got really tired after travelling for the whole day, so we decided just to grab a cab and headed to our next destination, The Heart of River (爱河之心)

Once you are in KaoShiung, there's one place that you really should drop by to pay a visit, the Formosa Boulevard MRT station (美丽岛站）- the Dome of Light.

The Dome of Light

Afterwards, we visited LiuHe night market (六合夜市）and have spicy steamboat (麻辣火锅) as our dinner.

麻辣火锅

We stayed in KaoShiung for 2 days 1 night. The next morning, we wake up really early to get to LianChiTan (莲池潭), and the Tiger Dragon tower, you will know why it's named this  way after visited it.

Here we are ~

inside the tower~~

having fun shooting chinese new year MV like photos :)

After this, we took a bus and get off at AoZiDi (凹子底) MRT station. There's a small "flower sea" over here. Can't stop ourselves from taking photos.

i love this place so~~ much  


And this is our last destination visited before get back to Taipei. I still have 1 more post to go for my Taiwan trip, I wonder when I can finish blogging about it...hehe

Taiwan Formosa Aboriginal Cultural Village (九族文化村)

It's been almost a month since the last time i updated my post, i know a month is like years~ in the cyber world. haha...sorry for being lazy in blogging. This month is also a very important month for me too as I had officially started my working life!!! wohoo~~

anyway, i'm going to continue in what i have started, continue to blog about my taiwan trip. So, another place that I think is one of a must-visit when you were in taiwan is the Formosa Aboriginal Cultural Village (九族文化村). It is located at the Nantou(南投) province, very nearby the Sun Moon Lake (日月潭).

We went there from Taichung. You can choose to go there by bus or taxi. You can took the bus from the high speed railways station, the price should be around 200++ taiwan dollar, and it's going to be a 2 hours journey. Since there are 4 of us, we decide to took taxi, which costs TD 1200 and it only took us 1 hour ++ to reach our destination.

We stayed at 月潭小栈, which is located at Ita Thao (伊达邵) of the sun moon lake. We choose to stay at Ita Thao because it is near to the cable car station to the cultural village. It's only 5 minutes walk from the place we stay to the cable car station. The owner of 月潭小栈 is so friendly and kind. If you guys going to sun moon lake, may consider to stay at this place. They offer a package for 4 person, accommodation + ticket to cultural village + cable car ticket which costs 4400 in total, means only 1100 per person.

Enough for the talking, the rest i'll be using pictures to show you the fun that we had in the cultural village.

along the pathway towards the cable car station :)

sun moon lake

on the way to formosa aboriginal cultural village, holding our tickets :)

yeah~ finally, we reached :)

this thing is really really fun~ we played it twice~~ :D

can you spot me? i'm rite in the middle, person with white jacket :)

pirate ship

watching performances, around 40 mins show, totally enjoying it~ muz watch!! :)

rented the traditional costume with TD100

the europe garden~ as if i'm really in europe, love this place

on our way back, be caution with the time, if not mistaken, the operation time of the cable car is until 4.30pm (weekend), weekday shud be 4pm

sunset view of sun moon lake~

back to our sweet room :)

night time snack~~ yum yum~ bought at Ita Thao market :)

haih~ i wonder when will i have a chance again to go for a 10 days trip

1 day trip in Taichung

Continue to blog about my taiwan trip. So, on the 1st day of 2011, we were leaving taipei and going to taichung. We went there by using high speed rail, which costs NTD700 per person and it took approximately an hour in order to reach the destination.

inside of the high speed rail, busy checking our taichung itinerary

One thing I really like about the taichung high speed

rail station, there are free shuttle buses. We get on the bus to go to the Feng Jia area, the place where our pre-booked B&B -- Wengoodshop located. One of the owner, Stanley waited us at the bus stop and guide us to the place we stay. And I am the lucky one among my friends as Stanley was giving me a ride using his scooter (小绵羊), to the location of Wengoodshop. wohoo~ so excited, i think this is only the 3rd time i ever hopped on to a motorbike. :)

There's a lot of traveller's information provided too inside this place. Stanley really gave us a lot of advice about how to go around Taichung. A million thanks to Stacy and Stanley for their hospitality.

Wengoodshop, nice and lovely and cheap :)

Our first stop -- eat dumplings. This shop is just 2 minutes walk away from the place we stay. It is super delicious and super duper cheap.

Ji Feng dumplings (吉蜂蒸饺), must try, very delicious and super cheap, can you belive that 4 buckets of these only costs NTD 100, just approximately RM10!!!

Next, we took a taxi to the Dong Hai University(东海大学) since we were lazy to wait for bus, hehe... Dong Hai University was being known as the most beautiful university in taiwan, maybe because of the landscape or the tree-shaded pavements. But one thing you must visit when you were in Dong Hai University, the Luce Chapel, which is one of the most remarkable structure in Taichung.

we were at Dong Hai University

me in front of Luce Chapel.

inside Dong Hai university

After that, we move on to the Dong Hai International Art Street (东海国际艺术街) , well, we seriously thought that this place is definitely within a walkable distance from Dong Hai University. But, we were wrong. In the end it took us more than 30 minutes to reach there. We might as well wait for bus, sigh~

view of taichung city, took it on our way to the international art street

the beautiful Dong Hai International Art Street (东海国际艺术街)

forgot its name, but its really really delicious

our next station is Jing Ming 1st Street(精明一街), we took a bus from the international art street and get off at the Zhong Ming elementary school (忠明国小站). This place is a europen style-like street.

the view at Jing Ming 1st Street

a chrismas tree we found inside the street, totally made of KFC spoon, WOW!!!

One thing that we must not miss when i taichung, the fengjia night market. It is the biggest night market in taiwan. As we had been advised by Stanley that even one whole night isn't enough for

visiting the whole market, so after visiting the jingming 1st street, we going back to the Fengjia area.

This place is so so huge, and so so so crowded. We didn't took much picture inside because it's too crowded that makes me unwilling to take out my camera. Thanks to the map provided by Wengoodshop, since all the must-try food had been marked, i guess we had tried many of the most delicious food in the night market. :)

the fried maggi (炒泡面), queued for 30mins for it, something similar with maggi goreng but the most delicious version i ever ate.

this is called 冰棍, one of our most favourite food of the night, bought the 2nd one right after we finish the 1st. See the plastic paper around it? it's eat-able :)

passed by the Feng Jia University

Stinky tofu (臭豆腐)

Papaya milk (木瓜牛奶) recommended by 食尚玩家 :)