Last day in Taichung, woke up to pretty scenery around the area! Never got to explore much the night before cause it was already very dark. I think I made a bet with someone to wake up at 7am or something to explore the area but it never happened because that someone couldn't wake up I guess. But still had a good night's sleep :D
And we had breakfast prepared for us before we left :) Porridge and some simple dishes! I see pork floss, somehow I loved eating them ever since I tried them in Taiwan! Don't remember liking it back in Singapore, must be because there's something different about it. Confim. Cause I don' crave for this ever since I'm back.
Polaroid at the minsu before we left! ^^ Hahaha sorry that I'm such a burden cause I wanted to capture as many moments with my Polaroid camera while we travel out. Digital is always the best form but I'm just scared one day what if I lose all my digital copies :(
Cing Jing Farm (清境農場)
Left our minsu and headed for Cing Jing Farm, which happens to be up in the mountains too. Went there to visit the meh-mehs! :D Though it was summer then it was quite chilly at the top.
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| As usual, mandatory group photo at touristy places! :) |
Super pretty place to visit in Taichung, like everywhere is just so.... scenic. If only I can stay there forever - just me and the animals there. Hahaha sounds cool but sadly I don't think I can ever survive if I really do that. Still love the tranquil vibe that this place gives off :D Really a place to be at when you need time off from reality.
"这个世界太复杂，我们应该学会把，学会把他变得简单" - Totally right; why are humans so complicated, and why must they complicate their lives?!
Pretty pictures ahead! :D If only I get to see such a view daily hehehe~
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| Nice paranoma :D |
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| So prettayeeeee :D |
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| With le pretty roomie and pretty flowers behind! :) |
Thought we'd only see the sheep at the grassy fields where most of them would be at, but no. Say hi to the first two (shaven) meh-mehs that we met along the way! :)
Walked towards the place where the others would be located, it's quite a long walk! Hahaha can you spot the meh meh signboard!! :)
We saw a couple taking having their wedding photoshoot there with the meh-mehs!! So cool, I mean most people would want to have an unforgettable wedding in their lifetime, but how often do you spot couples not having the normal photoshoot indoors/outdoors with nice scenery that will make the photos look good... Like trying to capture a nice moment with the mehhhhhs in the sun!
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| Happy happy shot :) |
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| Bryan who wanted a nice photo with the sheep, but it's not an easy task haha. |
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| Shot by Weishan who was lagging behind! "Ready to molest the meh-mehs" HAHA. |
And tadasssss, we've reached! The sheep are free to roam around the area, and visitors can buy their food to feed them! So yupp, we tried feeding them, and as usual I'm always the apprehensive one, 什麼都怕 :( But I did interact with them after a while!
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| Mission 1: Interact with the meh-mehs, SUCCESS! |
But it wasn't very successful for me all the time HAHA. Bryan took so many shots and some of the photos reflected my fear, like this one!
So other than the sheep, they have horses too! And we can pay to ride them around the area. It's NT100 for a person, and NT150 for a pair. Not expensive!! Hahaha the couple tried first! I was thinking whether I'd want to ride it at first.
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| They look so happy! :D |
Decided to try riding the horse with Bryan! Thank you for agreeing to do so cause I really don't think I'll ride it alone :/ But it was a short course only though! And we got a different horse from wsck! Angsty horse HAHAHA.
Went back to the meh-mehs after that. But after a while... I got so addicted interacting with them HAHA. Like when you're familiar with the area and the sheep, IT'S TIME TO PLAYYYYY :D Tried taking selfies with the sheep after that, and I think we all managed to take at least one nice (or maybe just glam) photo with a sheep!
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| Mission 2: Selfie with meh-mehs, SUCCESS! |
Took us many shots before we captured these, cause most of the time they would run away before you snap the picture, or they wouldn't look into the camera :( We found out the way to attract their attention - FOOD. Hahaha greedy greedy sheep. But it was so fun snapping photos with them! So we attempted wefies too!
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| Mission 3: Wefie with the sheep, SUCCESS! |
Snapped a few more photos before leaving the place to get back into our cab :D
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| Picture with my favourite sheep, 360 annyeong!! |
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| Weishan and her swag meh meh! :) |
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| Proof that we've been here~ |
Headed to some place nearby to grab some food for lunch! Sigh, a pity that we didn't get to visit the cardboard restaurant!! Clubber Yang recommended that place, and I think Shihui also posted it on instagram. But I guess we were a bit tight for time also oh well, next time then! :D
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| 山雞 that was hard to chew! |
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| Some ice cream to beat the heat! |
And since we are there, we cannot miss getting some stuff back rightttt. Bought some honey back; can mix it with water for daily consumption ^^ Left the area and headed towards 日夜潭 after that.
Sun Moon Lake (日夜潭)
Took the ferry there after the cab uncle dropped us at the pier to get the tickets. During the ride they were explaining how did the term 日夜潭 came about also. Quite interesting heh! And that we must get the tea egg when we reach there!! Like it's super famous, been there for many years already. But anyway, got CYD I'm happy alreadyyyy! :D
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| The famous tea egg store!! |
Didn't stay there for very long, just walked around and snapped photos before heading back to the ferry!
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| Needed to queue to take a photo with this! |
Went to the dinner place recommended by the cab uncle; he kept saying must try some sort of roasted chicken in Taichung - 甕缸雞 (Earthen Jar Chickens). We also went to some 5-star toilet near the area, like it came from donations or something. And the (public) toilet is really clean and nice omg. Cleaner than most public toilets in Singapore also haha.
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| Cost to build this toilet!! :O |
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| How often do you see toilets like this! |
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| The atas toilet! |
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| Dinnerrrrr :D |
Cabbed back to Kaohsiung after dinner, cause we have lessons on Tuesday! (Yeap, all of us have no lessons on Mondays wahahaha :P)
This was scheduled backwards instead of posting in May! Hahaha if not it looks so fragmented.
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DAY 2: Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village
Morning was spent getting Taichung's specialty - Suncakes 太陽餅 :) Was showing mum all her favourite pastries but sadly I cannot get those for them cause it'll expire even before I return to Singapore. (And we barely started on our exchange then!)
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| Hahaha doing up this post really makes me hungryyyy :( |
Spent most of our day at
九族文化村 (Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village)! There's quite a few places to visit there - their theme park and should go visit and learn about the different Aboriginal cultures :)
Shall just let the photos do the talking!! So pretty, and we were only at the entrance :)
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| Starting off with a mandatory group shot, as always! |
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| So pretty!! |
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| So pretttyyyy! :D |
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| Another group shot, we had to cross some bushes (and probably killed some plants in the process) to get in. |
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| Taking photo with the bear mascot!! Super cute :D |
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| They have this train service that will tour around the village!:D Looks super traditional, no air-con one! |
And we're finally at the entrance that leads to the theme park!
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| Photo with le roomie when the guys are away! |
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I looked as though I was trying to kope the ice cream, but the weather was really hot!! It was still summer then.
Weishan and the guys went for their first water ride! :) Couldn't join them for all the water rides for that trip, sadly :( Love taking theme park rides though I'm always so scared and apprehensive when it comes to free falling and heights, so why was I so unlucky!! Haha but it was fun watching them take the ride too. Was helping Bryan to video their ride, but I was more afraid of getting drenched when the carriage took the free-fall-like plunge.
The second water ride they took was named something like a mine ride.. Hmmm not very sure but I couldn't view how the ride was, not accessible! :( So there's only a photo of me trying to act like a kid. BUT I'M STILL YOUNG AT HEART OKAY, THOUGH I'M SHORT. :X
Went for the indoor rides after that!! Hahah I think we took some indoor roller coaster also - the spaceship like one!! Went for the Viking after that, it's quite scary also, but I like! :D Once again when I'm taking Viking I'm forever laughing, sorry Weishan and Bryan y'all have to bear with me cause I'm always very tickled by these rides. Or rather, I feel ticklish really easily.
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| Photo credits: Chongkai :) |
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| I like Weishan's caption - Debbie who cannot stop laughing, Bryan who cannot stop AHH-ing. LOL. |
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| This ride looks familiar.... 위 아래 HAHA. |
We went outdoors after that, and they were talking this super scary ride in the theme park that's quite similar to the one we saw on Running Man, except that it wouldn't move backwards. Weishan didn't mind trying, but the guys didn't want to take the risk. (tsktsk!!!) So I ended up being the deciding factor - and I agreed to try. Just #yolo!! (But it did come across to me that I'd puke after the ride after seeing pictures of the ride) Hahaha Weishan and I are each other's yolo buddies when it comes to rides.
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| What the guys (or rather just Bryan) were doing while we went for the ride. |
Introducing.... the scary ride!! Your legs are left dangling one, SO SCARYYYY. Totally no sense of security T.T But it was really fun though, never regretted trying!! But my eyes wasn't open at certain points, especially when you're facing down during the ride. Cannot really take the thrill for such rides already, must not kill myself by facing my fear for heights. That aside, 너무 재미있었어요!! :)
Maybe I should really go try sky-diving someday, who knows I may survive eh? After trying those scary theme park rides and water sports over the years I think there's a chance leh!! Like I always say I cmi but after trying it's okay one :P But my parents are super against it cause my heart may not be strong enough to handle the pressure.
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| After the ride. We look perfectly fine right? ^^ |
Went for lunch after that, and it's time for the most chillax session - just taking photos around the area ^^ Why is everywhere so pretty thereeeee! And I love making online photo collage, didn't know they have this function that can adjust the corners, so these look like photo strips, so cool! :) So much donut love here.
Started touring the different aboriginal cultural villages/areas after that! Really interesting heh, like how their lives are so different from ours. And we also got to experience some of the activities they undertake!
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| The interior - looks really 古代! |
Got to try archery at one of the mini villages! Idk is it because I'm scared or weak or what but I can't really seem to exert enough force to shoot the arrow! Like most of the shots didn't even go near the target!! But thankfully there were people to guide us, if not I'll really be super lost!
More pretty pictures, so many fishes :) :) Went to purchase those friendship-like bands also - different colours have different meaning! I got those related to health, happiness and family/friends #whatsnew
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| So pretty right!! :) |
Decide to head for the cable car that can lead us to 日夜潭, along the way there were some statues, and Chongkai decided to pose for them haha. "Giving a helping hand" (Y)
Passed by a souvenir shop and we decided to get their local rice wine!! Was thinking we can clear them someday at home when we play games with drinking forfeits :) Bryan got a new toy 山豬 haha it's super cuteeee. But no I can't get toys cause Idk how to bring them back, and not sure if I'll have space on the bed for me to sleep. :P
We passed by this area where we can pose as prisoners! All of them look so cute haha, and why can see my cheek line!!
Went to get tickets and took the cable car ride down to go back to our cabs! Nope, we didn't visit 日夜潭 that day, it was kind of planned for our last day. Didn't have the time also.
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| Group photo + shanzhu! |
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| View of 日夜潭 from the cable car! |
Did a survey for some students when we reached, and asked for recommendations as to where we can go at night; they recommended Feeling 18c! They're super nice, even provided us with the address after they googled :)
Did some shopping before heading back to the cab. He brought us to a temple called 文武廟, which is apparently very famous. That day there were also performances put up by the locals there, and there were free food provided as a form of Thanksgiving that day. We also went to take the 365 stairs down, and back up. Super tiring, and guess I'm old already :(
Went to Feeling 18c as planned! The cab uncle went to get 檳榔 cause Bryan didn't mind trying. So while we were choosing our ice cream flavours he learnt how to consume that. Apparently it is described to have tasted like vegetables so yup I chose not to try it!
But just saying it's not something that y'all should eat on a regular basis k!! We just wanted to try once only.
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| Look at the variety hehehe <3 |
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| These are the flavours that wsck chose! Idk where did my photo went haha |
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| Us with our icecream before we headed back! Super blur and dark photo sigh :( |
Headed for our minsu for the night at 埔里 - but oops I think we didn't check the place properly cause we booked it in a hurry. It was situated up in the mountains, super ulu!! And the we took a long and narrow route up the mountains in complete darkness. Totally reminded me of the time le family drove back from Malaysia - no streetlights at all, super scary!
Weishan and Chongkai tried the remaining 2 檳榔 at the minsu, finally saw how it looked like when you have to spit it out. :O Luckily we booked a room for the driver too! Just stayed in the room to watch TV and nuaaa and sleep. The bathroom is nice though, there's a bathtub but I can't use >:(
Sigh need to end here again cause it's damn looooong!
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