台中 （阿里山- 清境）- Day 3

We woke up super super early, 4.30 am, it's like mid night to me during normal day.. But that day was different because we were going to take a train to the peak of Alishan to watch sun rise :) 

super cold, super early ! Waiting to board for our train at 5am

森林小火车（translated to Little Forest Train) :)

Hiking up to the observatory point

Waited for quite a while there but too cloudy :(

My breakfast~ Yummy! such a breathtaking view makes my food more appetizing :)

Nice !

The train ( The Little Forest Train 森林小火车）was originally built during Japanese ruling time, before WW II for them to transport logs from the mountain but now it was only used to transport tourist from foot of the  hill to the peak. However, the train was well maintain and it really showed how good of Japanese technology even then...

interior of. the train, narrower compared to MRT, lol

Looked like toy train here right? But It was moving downhill at considerable fast speed

Hiked from mid hill down to the foot of hill, It was mystical yet refreshing in the forest

This tree cute right? Love Forever Tree!

Aww~~ very lovey dovey couple !

I wish my school is this pretty as well ~

The Super Tree at Alishan because it's the oldest, at about 3000 years old

 

But too bad, it got stuck by lighting some years back and now lying on the ground besides the train station

Before depart to Qing Jing

The sun rise hiking trail took us abour 3 hours but it was totally worth it because the scenery and the flowers were so breathtakingly beautiful and the fresh air sort of made us felt refreshed instead of tiring.. From there on, we departed to Qing Jing (清境）and en route we went to SunMoon Lake (日月潭)，tried on the famous President Fish (总统鱼),  纸教堂 (The Paper Dome) and etc

Our driver,  Mr Zhang, feeding monkey 

The rope bridge was erected to enable the monkey to cross to the other side of jungle safely

The company that we engaged to ferry us around Tai Zhong

Land slides is one of the common natural disaster in this country

The President Fish - one of the favourite dish of President (but I forgot to ask : which president?) lol..

The interior & chair was made of paper (originally built by Japanese)

I really could stayed here all day to read and enjoy the view <3

Well, it was another long day for us and we only managed to reach our hotel at Qing Jing in the evening... Poor Mr Zhang for driving  almost 10 hours and the road condition was nothing like Singapore or even Malaysia, it was all bending curvy snaky mountain road... I really respect them !

Thanks for reading ! Stay tuned for Day 4 !