Took China Airline and by the time we touch down, its bout 7pm liao.. headed straight to the farm that we'll be staying over for the night. Had dinner which include a cup of 珍珠奶茶. Played fireworks after dinner, something that we cant play in Singapore. Tried lighting the rocket 1, light and run .. haha .. scary but fun. =) The room was sooooo nice lor, so huge, 2 queen size beds but the beds a bit too hard, everyting else was perfect. They even got free wireless .. haha .. great that I brought my laptop along .. I can chat wif dear, and yuzhen can chat wif kevin. Some photos of the farmstay:
Really love this farmstay, nice bedroom, fresh air, nice view, and got my favourite Lavender =)
After the farm tour, we went back to pack our lugguage and leave for Alishan. Its a super super long bus journey .. Henny warn us to take motion sickness pill. Almost a 3hrs moutain road up, and its quite cold up there, ard 13deg only. Thats consider quite cooling for summer period. 
After Alishan, we had another long bus jouney down the moutain to middle taiwan, Sun Moon Lake. Its a very nice and famous place, and the hotel was great too. Nice interior and also nice scenary especially in the morning, breakfast by the lake.
After breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and head towards the Aboriginals Village, 九族文化村. Nothing special there, but we watched a traditional village show, took the cable car. Saw my favourite Lavendar again at this very big nice garden, where there're a few v nice plant sculptures.
After Aboriginal Center, we proceeded to lunch and then to train station where we'll take the bullet train from Taoyuan to Taipei. As we reached the station early, we had some free time to grab some drinks. As I was having headache, I went to starbucks to grab a Ice Tall Caramel Macchiato. Its a good shot, nice drink! =) And we also went to 7-11 to get a bottle of yoghurt drink. It taste like out yakult + green tea powder, and have some aloe vera meat added.
Upon arrival at Taipei, we had a brief city tour on the coach before alighting at Taipei 101. Me and yuzhen briefly shop around and take some photos before crossing the road over to New York New York, saw the area where a lot of 偶像剧scene had appear. Bought some donuts from Mister Donut and we spent quite a lot of time on the street pavement, trying to capture a nice shot of the full 101. 
Finally after 101, we proceed to to famous Shilin Night Market. Recommended by our guide, we tried 大肠包小肠(grilled glutinous rice with taiwan sausage and some veges), 蚝仔煎(quite different from ours, but its very nice, got a sauce on top and veges below), 豪大大鸡排(real huge chicken cullet, queue a long queue at stall), 臭豆腐(i finally tried it, plucked up the courage, lucky it was not that bad as the minimum order is 3 huge toufu, imagine its bad .. how to finish), Honey white bittergord juice(according to guide, only available in taiwan, refreshing and not bitter, nice!), and a uncle from our tour group treat every1 to a 大饼包小饼(popiah skin wrap tausah piah, nice and also only available in taiwan). Thats our dinner for the day, yummy and full!
Fishermen Wharf was quite ok only .. i think i'll still prefer the 1 at San Frans .. ahh .. how i miss USA!! ok back to topic, we went yang ming shan also .. which there is basically almost nothing to see cos its not the flower blooming season ... -_- Jiufen was quite a nice street, but tink we reached there too late, lots of shops are almost closing, the road up the hill was quite dangerous, very narrow, 1 way up n 1 way down. And Henny was telling us a lot of accident happened there, but well, its a tourist attraction. And a shop sell very nice konnyaku jelly and black peanuts. Jiufen is also famous yam ball tau huay. 
Night event was Ximenting shopping after going to a shop to buy Pineapple tarts. I didnt buy any, bought the honey cake instead. Its super nice lor!! shld hav buy more back. Head first to the Ah Zong Mee Sua .. the queue is like forever there de .. and there is not tables and chairs provided lor .. so many ppl were crowding along the street, holding a bowl of mee sua and standing there to eat. Me and yuzhen didnt join the tour group back to hotel .. so that we can have more time to shop around. I manage to buy 2 tops and 1 leggings at quite cheap price. We also went to eat the 3 brothers dessert where we ate the milk shave ice with mango and pearls .. yummy!!! 
Went to Grand hotel, a 6* hotel, not to stay but tour only .. haha .. but its finishing interiorly and exteriorly are super nice lah .. if u're feeling rich .. haha .. can go there stay. From there can also see Fishermen Wharf. Drop by 宗列祠where jus nice we met the shift changing performance. And the guard standing at the entrance .. totally cannot move even under hot sun .. we can take photo with them, but cannot touch them. 
Went to this restaurant for lunch .. very interesting place, 五角船板. The exterior of the restaurant is in a boat shape, n the interior is very artistic. Even the toilet sign oso very different. And here, i tasted the best mochi that i've ever tasted. Super fresh and yummy!!! *drool* ... 
On the way to HuaLien, we stop by this culture village where we had some free time looking at some exhibits. I spent some $$ there. Bought some souvenirs, a taiwan starbucks bear.. and also hp accessory for me n dear. Tried this traditional ice with yam, peanut flavour. 
After this stop, we had a long long long and dangerous moutain route before reaching our hotel. As its too dark at night, only til morning when we walk around then we realise the nice weather and scenary at the area. Our hotel is just along the coast, facing Pacific Ocean. 
Its another 'adventurous' bus ride. Going up to Taroko. Nice nice scenary, but seems dangerous also. Narrow moutain road. And til a point where coaches cannot enter, we had to alight and walk. Scenary was great, but we dare not stay at a pt for too long..lol.. cos there's a lot of cases of rocks falling fr above.. so there're signs around warning tourist not to stay at a pt too long. But i tink this is stil worth it, nice scenary, and cooling highland air=) 
After Taroko, we head to have lunch, where we tried the traditional bamboo rice (竹筒饭). Nothing very special in test, just a bit of dried prawns inside. But the experience was indeed interesting. Haa .. cos in order to eat the rice, we must 1st break open the bamboo. The restaurant provide a brick there, and we had to hit super super hard to crack the bamboo. 
And after lunch, we took train to TaiTung, the long waited Hot Spring resort!!! The train ride was quite long, bout 2hrs. Bout the green tea yakult drink to slowly enjoy during ride. Some of the train stations there are really interesting, only a small platform in the middle of no where. Include the station that we alighted, small small station. We even had to walk past the tracks to exit the station where only a man standing there sort of guarding the place. 
Me and Yuzhen were quite overwhelmed by the resort. So NICE!!! Really love the place. We quickly settle down, and change to our swim suit and with the bathing gown on, we start to explore around. There is a outdoor spring, which can wear swim suit, another which must be totally naked. Haha .. me n yuzhen too shy, so we chose to go to the swim wear 1. There is this process that we have to follow for soaking, warm 1 1st(initially the warm 1 is already too hot lor, cant imagine the real hot 1), then the real hot 1, then the cold 1. So we rotated ourselves around for like 2 rounds before we head back to soak in our room while watching 命中注定我爱你.:p 
Another night market that we went, LiuHo night market at KaoShuing. Tried lotsa nice food. And for this market, they're famous for papaya milk, Fried squid and mushroom, Dan Dan noodle and braise pig intestine, Shi Quan ribs soup. 
