Monday, March 11, 2013

TaiZhong - Day 2

After a night of not too good rest (the bed was not as good as my last stay at that hotel) , we woke up bright and early to start our road trip to the infamous Alishan (阿里山), of coz we hired a driver to bring us around in TaiZhong, Alishan and Qing Jing before sending us back to Taipei for the remaining trip. The driver was really quite good and he's actually the BOSS ! ( I will mention more about him in the later posts).

Taiwan's driving direction is different from ours, nearly went to the wrong door when we got on the van :P
Spring had just begun :) new leaves and flowers blossomed !
on our way to see natural hot gas spring, can't resist the colourful pumpkin
one of the nature's wonder : Fire and Water exist together , 水火胶融
The journey from Tai Zhong to Alishan is about 3 hours but we visited some other tourist spots along the way, for example : 台影文化城,嘉义火鸡肉饭,天长地久桥,奋起湖(旧火车站)so we reached our destinations in late afternoon :)

现代新娘,古代轿
movie scenes
火鸡肉饭
Finally reached AliShan! The temperature was only freaking 12 deg C !
It's Spring time! Nice!
There's nothing to beat a warm hotpot in cold moutain night!! *yumyum*
 It was too freaking cold up on the mountain because Alishan is one of the tallest mountain in Taiwan, over 3000m above sea level. The temperature that night was around 7 - 9 deg c but being a night owl, we still hang out at 7-11 til late, hehe...



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