TAIWAN
6-27 March 2017
Map of our roadtrip: Taipei - Tainan - Kaohsiung - Kenting - Taitung - Hualien - Jiaoxi - Taipei
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Day 1: after clearing custom, bought a 30-day SIM card with unlimited 4G data plan (plus NT$450 local call) for NT$1000. 3 Operators counter once get out from custom. Booked the complimentary DBS limo transfer from airport to apartment (40 mins drive). Checked into apartment around 6pm. Rest and relax before heading out for dinner at "Hong Fang Tien" seafood restaurant. Cab fare NT$240. Dinner NT$990. Cab back apartment NT$220.
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Day 2: Took a cab to Fuhang Soy Milk for breakfast arriving 1030am. Queued for about 30mins winding queue before our turn. Breakfast cost about NT$270 in total. After that, walked to Manfutang to buy some local Taiwan pastries before walking to Huashan 1914 Creative Park. Many artistic cafe and restaurants and shops to explore. Great photography location. Hang around Alleycat's Stone oven baked pizza cafe for a relaxing coffee break. Piped in music with gloomy sky put us in a hypnotic sleeping state. Rested 2 hrs and took a 5 min cab ride to 肥前屋 for anago early dinner. Dinner bill NT$970. Took a cab to Taipei Station underground shopping and shopped till 915pm before taking a cab back to apartment.
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Day 3: Breakfast around 1045am near apartment (NT$220). Then took a train to Tamshui (changed train at Taipei Main Station). NT$55 each for 1 way. Journey took about an hour. Walked in Tamshui old street and left for Shilin night market around 7pm. Train fare NT$40 each. Walked around Shilin and had dinner (NT$290) in the street market. Took a cab back to apartment at around 10pm (NT$295).
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Day 4: Took a cab to 迪化老街 and spend about 3.5hours here including lunch. Thereafter, took a cab to Dao Sao's mum house. Left for dinner at around 6pm and after dinner, walked to Ximending. Took a cab back at around 9pm
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Day 5: shopped around Breeze shopping mall for a while, then took a cab to 上引水產 for early lunch (NT$290). Total bill NT$2970. After that bought a box of strawberry for NT$200 across the fruit wholesale market. Took a cab to Taipei Main Station (NT$200) for a quick shopping and took a train back to apartment to collect luggages (NT$20 each). Took a train back to Taipei Main Station and walked to Taoyuan Express Train station (about 10 mins walk) and took a train to airport. Send off Mother to SQ and waited for Hong and Sock at airport terminal. Took train to Taoyuan HSR (NT$18 each, half price promotion, 16 mins ride). Had dinner at shopping centre near station and took 1943 train to Tainan. arrived 2105 and walked about 8-10mins to apartment
Train to airport depart every 15 mins. In town check in for EVA air and China Air. 3 hours ahead. Travel time 35mins to T2, Basement 2. NT$160 each. SQ check in counter number 3 at level 3. From elevator, Turn Left to corner. MRT to Taoyuan HSR is NT$35 each (16mins ride), taxi is NT$330. Took HSR train from Taoyuan station to Tainan station, NT$1190 for reserved seat per person. Depart 1943, arrive 2105. When arrived, turn left once out of ticket booth and walk towards the train station to take train to Tainan Station. NT$25 per person. Train ride about 25-30mins |
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Day 6: Walked to local wet market near our apartment for breakfast. After that, we walked to Guohua Street for coffee break and more food. Late afternoon, walked to Shennong old street to take photos. Evening, went for 50 mins foot massage (NT$600). End the day at night market Wu Sheng night market. Took a cab back to apartment around 10pm+
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Day 7: After breakfast, we took a cab to Shicao for the ferry to Taiwan's Amazon river. After that, we took a cab to Anping old street. Spend the whole afternoon in Anping area before taking a cab back Ruifeng night market. Had dinner there and went for foot massage at 10pm.
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Day 8: Breakfast in apartment and walked 15 mins to Confucius temple from apartment. Next stop was Higashi Departmental Store, which is about 8-10mins away. After that, we had lunch at Du Xiao Ye. From there, we walked to Kanchelo before walking back to apartment to check out (315pm). Walked to train station and took a train ride to Zuoying (Kaohsiung). 28 mins train ride .
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Day 9: taxi to pier 2 art centre nt$200. Pier 2 to ferry terminal nt$100. Ferry to Cijin nt$25 each. Lunch at Cijin nt$1340. Bike rental nt$600, spend 2 hours in Cijin. Foot massage nt$2000 plus nt$400 tips. Dinner in night market about nt$800.
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Day 10: Left apartment around 11am, and had breakfast at street stall. Then headed to Ge Li cafe for lunch (nt$1430). Then we walked to Lotus pond for some photos. Thereafter we walked to Zouying old street before taking a cab to Formosa boulevard station to see the circle glass lights. After that, we walked to the night market for dinner before going back to apartment.
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Day 11: Breakfast in apartment, and checked out at 11am. Deposited our luggages in Kaohsiung Arena shopping mall and took a cab to Anning Street (nt$125), their wholesale market for clothing. Spend the whole afternoon (1120am till 5pm) here before taking a cab back to collect our luggages (nt$125). Took a cab to Kenting from Kaohsiung Areana (about 655pm) for NT$1,600. Arrived Kenting around 9pm and checked into hotel along Kenting night market. Strolled along the night market and booked an e-bike for NT$1400 for 2 days.
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Day 12: Ate breakfast in the hotel, which was included in the fare. Set off around 930am with our e-bike. First stop was Little Bay, followed by Oluanpi Park & Light Tower (entrance fee nt$60, parking nt$10), the southernmost tip of Taiwan (parking fee nt$20), Lingpan Park, Fengchueisha, Gangkou (stopped for lunch), Jialeshuei (entrance fee nt$80, parking nt$30), Chuhuo, Henchuen (stopped for dinner) before heading back to Kenting night market at around 9pm. Total distance traveled for the day was about 50km+
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Day 13: Breakfast in hotel and started off around 10am. First stop was South Bay, followed by Houbihu Port (for sashimi brunch), Maobitiu (entrance fee nt$30), Baisha, Hongchaikeng, Shanhai (lobster dinner) and Wantlitong (noodle), before heading back to Kenting night market (arrived around 6pm). Total distance traveled for the ride was around 30km. Spend the rest of the night strolling along the night market.
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Day 14: Breakfast at Orange restaurant near South Bay. Returned the e bike around 1020am and checked out hotel around 1050am and walked 5 mins to bus stop. Took the 1110am bus to Fangliao (nt$177 each), which took about 1hr 12mins. Upon alighting from the bus, walk slight front and turn right to Fangliao train station (1-2 min walk) to buy 134pm fast train ticket to Taitung (nt$223). Train ride about 1.5hr. Walked about 10-15mins to minsu. About 630pm, hostess drove us to town (16mins drive). Strolled around the town for about 2-3 hrs and the hostess came to pick us back to apartment
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Day 15: ride bicycle to breakfast and left minsu around 1020am. Took 1050am train from Taitung to Chishang (30-40mins, nt$97). Rented an electric bicycle for nt$500. Spend about 3 hours here and took the 338pm train to Hualien (nt$232). Booked a taxi for NT$2200 for next day tour to Taroko Gorge and include free ride from train station to hotel. Rest in hotel and walked to night market (20 mins)
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Day 16: Left for Taroko Gorge around 940am. First stop was Sioulin beach, followed by 清水斷崖. Thereafter, we make our way to Taroko Gorge. We bought some packet rice along the way and had our lunch break near the visitor centre. After lunch, our first stop was the xxx trail. We spend about 1.5 hrs here including photography time. The whole trail is 4.5km one way, but after 1.5km, the trail is closed due to heavy damages. Next is to 燕子洞, which is a short 15 mins walk. After that, we continued our way to Zhi mu qiao and ended our journey at tian xiang before making u-turn back. On the way back, we stopped by at 七星風景區 for some photographs, but it was windy and cold. So we did not stay Long. Aunty driver stopped us at the night market, where we spend another hour or so before we walked back to hotel.
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Day 17: Breakfast in hotel at around 915am and walked to A-zone art street and seaside. Left hotel at 150pm and took 218pm train to Jiaoxi (NT$250 each include admin fee by hotel). Arrived at Jiaoxi and walked to hotel (about 8-10mins). After settling in, we strolled around and had dinner along the road near the Jiaoxi train station. Went back for Onsen after that.
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Day 18: MOS burger breakfast in B&B room and walked to the bus stop beside Jiaoxi train station to take Green bus 11 to 林美石磐步道 (1050am, arrive 1115am; NT$20 each). Spend about 1 hr 20mins walking the trail, including rest and photography. Met a couple from Taipei in the trail and they offered to buy us lunch. We had lunch at 火山爆發雞 and they drove us to our B&B after lunch. Had a quick shower and walked to the train station to hire an e-bike (NT$100/hr). First stop was 四圍堡車站, followed by 頭城老街, 蘭陽博物館, 外澳東北角風景區. After that we had dinner at 海饕-四季主流宴 before riding back to Jiaoxi. Total time took was 4 hrs, distance 26km. Headed back to room for Onsen.
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Day 19: Woke up at 7am and had a quick Onsen and breakfast before walking to the train station to catch the 818am train to Houtong (NT$72 each).Houtong 1018am to Pingxi (NT$24), arriving at 1102am. First thing we did was 放天燈 (NT$200 for 4 Colours type), then we stroll the old street before hiking the 孝子山 (took about 1hr hiking up and photography time). After descending from the mountain, we walked to a 50-year old noodle stall for lunch before walking back to the train station. Took 1523 hr train to Shifen, arrived 1537 hr. Stroll on the old street then took a cab to Shifen waterfall $100). Entrance to waterfall closed at 430pm. After waterfall, we walked back to the old street to 放天燈 (NT$200 for 4 colours). Took the 628pm train to Ruifang (NT$19 each). Had dinner around Ruifang 美食街 and headed back to train station to take the 2038 hr train back to Jiaoxi (NT$79 each), arriving 2202.
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Day 20: Bought breakfast back to hotel room. Relaxed and had Onsen before we start our journey today. Walked 10 mins to the train station and took the 1212 train to Su'ao (41min, NT$45). Left at 6pm to Luodong night market by bus and arrived 647pm (NT$20, 43 mins). Left Luodong at 2220 by train (NT$39, 17 min) to Jiaoxi.
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Day 21: checked out 12pm and walked to the train station to take the 1329 train to Yilan (NT$15 each, 8 mins ride). Once we got out of the train station, walk left to Jimmy Park. Next we crossed the road and walked Walked to several attractions and bought some anti mosquitoes pants before heading to the night market for dinner. Caught the 705pm train back to Jiaoxi to collect our luggages. Took the 1954 train to Taipei and arrived 2138. Got off train station and walked 6-7mins to hotel. Checked in and headed to Ningxia night market after settling down. The walk is about 10mins, and had supper there |
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Day 22: After breakfast, took a train to collect our pants beside Guofu Park. Then took a train (3 stops) to Hou San Bi and walked 100m to Wufenpu for last minute shopping before taking a cab back around 245pm (NT$300). Collected our luggages from hotel and walked to Taoyuan fast train to airport (330pm, NT$80 each).
Flower season 六十石金山金針July - Sep; 緃谷油菜花海 Jan-Feb |
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TRIP PHOTOS - TAIWAN 2017