21 April 2007, Saturday

had our vegetarian breakfast... 黄妈妈, the owner, really a nice person... cook so much food for dinner the night before and for breakfast also the same... breakfast is lychee+sweet potato porridge with 4-5 other dishes... really 丰富 sia... and they grow those vegetables and lychees themselves can.. power... I asked 二姐 whether 黄妈妈 purposely cooked so much for us, and 二姐 say this is their normal practice... even usually when there is only two of them, 黄妈妈 will still cook alot of food... I wonder what will happen to the food if they cant finish it...


at the 民宿, they sort of have a traditon.. that is to drink chinese tea after their meals... I am not a pro.. but I can say the the tea is really nice lor.. dun have the 瑟瑟 feeling.. very smooth and smell nice sia... really different from those we had in singapore... probably its becos of the water and the tea leaves? I also had a chance to taste the morning dews.. 黄妈妈 say they collected the morning dews and store them in containers.. and leave the dews there for some time.. I dont really understand the whole process, but I think probably is sth similar like making wine ba... the morning dews smell like vinegar... but taste like wine... except that the taste is much more stringer than wine... special taste...

took some shots of the 民宿 and its scenary before heading to the "places of interests"... little dao dao really cute lor.. haha... dear's mum cant join us cos she fell sick.. and she choose to stay in the 民宿 to rest.. such a waste..

碧山卢 is the name of the 民宿... and every room has a different name.. the 1st place that we went in nantou is to visit what the locals called 绿色隧道 (the green tunnel)... actually is just a normal road... but along the whole stretch... both sides of the tunnel is covered with trees... and you can see green throughout while driving... beside it, we also saw train tracks... according to 二姐，if we are lucky, we can really see train bypassing... too bad we dun have the luck... next, 集集火车站 (Jiji Train Station)... nth much here.. but can see some real size models of the train and tanks...
then, to some historic place that I cant remember the exact name... quite fascinating though.. can see real size models of the rocket and 战斗机...ok.. there is sth that I have to admit.. I dun wish to include auntie ah tin in my blog even though I have took some pictures of her... cos I simply dun like her..

921 earthquake... see how badly damaged the temple is? well, this is not man-made.. this damaged is done naturally by the 921 earthquake.. I dunno why the temple is not being repaired.. not very sure abt the story behind also.. I think 二姐's bf got tell us.. but I just cant remember.. anyway.. this temple become another place of interest in nantou... and somehow really attract quite a number of pple...

孔明庙another temple.. dont really interest me... maybe will interest those who read 三国... all I can say is that this temple is big...

日月潭 (Sun-Moon Lake)
this is my favourite place of all... this place really is heaven lor.. everything so peaceful... the air so fresh and the sea so green and clean... nth more can be asked for if I can live here... right.. I am getting tired of describing in details.. tts y can see that the description is getting shorter and shorter.. haha..

after travelling for like 1hr... we reached 清境农场... when 二姐 told us abt this place, my 1st tot will be like the one I saw in taiwan drama 星苹果乐园 leading ming dao... hehe.. but I was wrong... though called 农场, the place is not a farm at all... its a place with beautiful scenaries as well.. and guess wat... we can see alot of cottages... super nice can... and most cottages are actually 民宿 lor... the price compared to the one we are staying is like 2-3 times more expensive lor.. if I nvr seen it myself.. I wont believe that there are places like that in taiwan lor... this is too good to be true... oh taiwan... what a wonderful place.. we also visited the biggest 寺庙 in nantou (or maybe taiwan)... got took some pictures la.. but then I find it scary... cos those god statues are big which I find them intimitating... I can tell you.. the temple is really big lor.. its like bigger than TP or any other polys in Singapore lor... scary... thus, no pics...

and after a long day, we went back to the 民宿... packed our things and head off to taipei liao... everything too rush that I forgot to take picture with 黄妈妈 and the family... too bad...

we managed to buy train tickets at 7.49pm.. this is the 1st time that I took bullet train... interior is just like our mrt except that it is more spacious.. and still got toilets sia.. almost the same design as those toilets on the plane.. after a fast 30min... we finally reached taipei..

split into 2 cabs and we head off to ximending and check in to our hotel.. royal castle...

nice reception.. but kinda bad service... even though we have book the rooms in advance, the recept told us to wait cos the rooms not ready.. give us only 1 room... and all of us have to wait in the room for 45min before all the rooms are ready.. -.-''' if not becos of rainbow hotel is fully booked, we wont choose royal castle at all...
when everyone has settled down, peiyuan (dear's cousin) came down to look for us and took us to 师大夜市.. quite a disappointment.. not much things to see also.. got alot of food la.. but not to my liking...

~phew~ thats all for day 2.. will update more again.... gd nite...