Taiwan 2015 - Day 3

Hi. After much procrastination I've finally decided to edit the pictures from my Taiwan trip. I mean, god, it has been 3 months since I'm back and till date I'm only at Day 3, can you even believe it. But that aside, I've been busy recently with my work and all and if you have been following me on my Twitter, I have just recently resigned from my job at Uniqlo.

Without further ado, lets begin with day 3 of my Taiwan travelogue shall we?



Continuing from day 2. We played monopoly deal, and Tai Di till about 1am - 2am??? To decide who gets to have the master bed for our next home stay. In the end, thanks to Garey, I manage to free load my way to the master bed. Hahaha!

We were told by the hosts at Starry Minsu that we could catch sunrise if we were to wake up early. Unfortunately, we had difficulty waking up due to the lack of sleep from the previous night. LOL! But hey, we manage to wake up. BUT!!! The moment we stepped outside of our room, we ran out to the balcony, took the photo you see above and ran back to our room and shut the door immediately cuz it was FUCKING COLD!!!! No kidding!!! I was freeeeeeeeezing with my PJ still on!!! Hahaha!




After which, we packed our staff and we head on down to the dining area where we had our dinner yesterday. Breakfast was pretty simple yet delicious. It feels quite homely actually. We had toasts, coffee, and some miscellaneous things that you see in the picture above. ^^




Took some last pictures before we leave for Cing Jing Farm.

We had the hosts from the minsu to drive us all the way down to the farm and we can leave our heavy belongings with them. They will roughly estimate the time taken to visit the farm and will let you know where and when to meet them to collect your belongings. :)



It was pretty crowded that day. Once we entered, we were greeted by breathtaking view. We saw people walking towards a direction so we just followed. Later then we know we are going towards the sheep's show.







In the middle of the show, we witness a horse peed. Hahaha! I didn't know horses peed in one whole bunch one. Like it literally flushes out like a pail of water. HAHAHAA!!!



Anyway, you are allowed to go up on the horses to go one round the performing area with only 20 NTD which is about $4 SGD??? Quite reasonable I guess. I mean, if you want to feel like a princ or princess riding on your horses then I guess you could go for it??? My friend and I was hesitating whether we should, but we ended up giving a pass.



There are also vending machine where they sell boxes of treats for the sheep at a reasonable price. Its for you to feed them. Take note, the sheeps will only come to you if you have the treats for them. Even sheeps are realistic. #HarshTruth





After the show, my friend gave me her box of treat cuz she gave up feeding those damn sheep. Hahaha! And furthermore I wanted to snap my ANTM moment photo with the sheep sooo.....





Group photo before heading to our next location. URGH!! Can't help it but to feel gross about how I looked in this photo above. ^^

ANOTHER BREATHTAKING VIEW

As we were walking, they are sheeps everywhere one. Like the next moment you'll see another one. And many people will take the chance to snap pictures with the sheep. -.-




Then we next come to the place where another performance is held. This one is of the horses. Where the performers will perform stunts on/with the horses. Kinda dangerous IMO. I heard from my friend that one of the performers fell down as he was doing his stunts. Poor guy. Ohyah. I wasn't watching this performance cuz I was going around snapping pictures and transferring photos from my camera to my phone. HAHAHA!!!



After much walking around, we walked down the hill and we came to the meeting point where our hosts say he'll meet us there. Since we're quite early, we head on down to the nearby place to look around for things to eat cuz we were quite hungry after all that walking.





Had Ice Cream and Mos Burger thereafter. Then, the hosts called and said he had reached the meeting place. And so we head back to meet him to collect our barangbarangs and we bid goodbye after that.

Then we waited at the nearby bus stop for our bus. The bus has scheduled timing so it might take you quite some time. The bus journey back to Tai Chung train station is the same as mentioned on day 2's blog post.




After the long journey, we have finally reached back to Xi Men Ding. We contacted Even regarding our 2nd home stay at Taipei, and he told us to meet his friend where he'll pass us the key to the house.

And here's the look of our 2nd home stay. Looks pretty good IMO. But rather smaller than what we had expected though. But nevertheless, everything was good. Hahaha!

Garey's winning prize (AND MINE) - The Master Bed 

HAHAHA!

So the itinerary for the remaining day is to go eat and shop at Shilin Night Market. But later did Audrey know we already had planned a surprised for her, it was her belated birthday celebration. I bet this bitch already knows or suspect that we're gonna celebrate for her in Taiwan. LOL!!!



Reached Jiantan Station, its where Shilin Night Market is located at. I once saw Damien (UncleTehPeng) posted this potato thing on his Instagram and I've longed wanted to try it. So the moment when I stepped into Shilin Night Market, the first thing I went is to queue for that.



A bit 小 regret getting this all for myself cuz after eating this I am too full to eat any other things. :(





But nothing will stop my friends from eating. We even went for shaved ice after all that eating. BUt actually to be honest, I didn't eat much, Hahaha!!!




So after we had our shaved ice, this bitch (Audrey) wanted to continue shop when it was already 9pm+++. So in the end, we went back to Xi Men Ding a little later and I gave the excuse I need to go back to the Minsu to shit cuz its urgent, and I need Garey to accompany. LOL AND SHE BOUGHT IT! HAHAHA! (That stupid bitch!) The rest of them went to Carrefour to buy some snacks and drinks for the night so as to delay some time.

And the final outcome. I've never blown and tie so many balloons at such a short period of time in my life and I pretty much think we did a good job in decorating the room. :)




And yea, these flowers, balloons, scotchtape, blue tack, ribbons, scissors was bought and brought all the way from our homeland - Singapore. It has been in our luggage for the past 2 days and we had to carry all around with us. LOLOLOL!!! Hahaha!

We hope you had a blast and enjoyed this little party that we had planned for you. So much for being your friend. LOL! Hahaha! ♥




Lets hope this friendship continues and who knows? We might be able to celebrate another's birthday at another country. And to more blowing and tying of balloons. LOL!!!

This ends day 3 of my Taiwan trip. I hope you guys enjoyed reading it. On day 4, we experienced earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5!!! Till next post. :)

Taiwan 2015 - Day 2

Hello hello! Its day 2 of my Taiwan travelogue. For day 2, its all about traveling to Taichung, Cing Jing. It's where all the "MehMeh's" are.

Woke up early the next day just to do some last minute packing in case we left out anything behind. By the way, Even, the host was nice enough to help us transfer/carry our luggage to our next apartment that we'll be staying from day 3 onwards. :D

#UsAgainstTheWorld

I'm not sure about other areas/district of Taiwan. But at Xi Men Ding, most of the shops won't open till 11am+++. So if you're out early, the only thing you could have is either Ru Rou Fan or fast food such as KFC.. We were roaming around the street for quite a bit to search for breakfasts but nothing much.. So we decided to settle down on a Ru Rou Fan stall.






Breakfasts was ridiculously cheap. I ordered their dry noodles for only 35 NTD = $1.50 SGD?!!! And their Ru Rou Fan was only 45 NTD for the bigger bowl and 25 NTD for the small one!!! How to resist such temptation you tell me?!!!





After our breakfast, we quickly went to the train station to get our tickets to TaiChung cuz I heard that they have timing for that...

Took the train from XiMen train station to Taipei Main station. Bought our tickets to TaiChung for 740 NTD = $32 SGD est...That's probably my most expensive train ticket ever... LOL!

P/S: We took the HSR (High Speed Rail) to TaiChung just for your info. :)
I think you can take a bus to TaiChung too if I'm not wrong, but we just decided to take the HSR there cuz its much faster.





The previous time I came to Taipei I didn't get the chance to have my "Bian Dang" Bento in Chinese. So this time, I manage to get myself one on the train. It costs 100 NTD = $4 SGD est...

Time taken to travel there is about and hour. So yea, you can take your time to eat.





When we reached TaiChung station, we alighted and headed down to the ground level to get our bus ticket up to CingJing. While you're on your way down at the ground level, you'll be bugged by Taxi drivers wanting to drive you there. My advice is, DON'T!!! They're pretty persistent and will try any method to get you to take their taxi. This is when you have to shrug them off and proceed directly to the bus ticket counter. Furthermore, the bus ticket package also includes the CingJing farm where you get to see lots of "Meh Meh's".

The bus ticket to CingJing + Tickets to CingJing Farm costs 600 NTD = $26.50 est...




After we bought our tickets, there's still a bit of time left, so we went around the station to take a look, and also to do a bit of shopping.

After much shopping around, we went back to the ground floor and waited for our bus.




The bus ride was about 1 - 2 hours if I'm not wrong??? I can't really remember anymore, all I know is I was woken up by the jerking of the bus when we're up on the mountain.

After the pretty much scary bus ride. We finally reached the mountain top. The moment when we step out of the bus... IT WAS HEAVEN!!! And I mean it. The air was cold and its super windy! My friends and I were like saying this is the reason why I'm here!!! LOL!!!




As we're walking to a place to put our "barang barangs", my friend called the host for the Minsu that we're staying in for the night. Over at CingJing, there's quite a number of hostels and minsu you can stay imo. As our bus drove up the mountain, we saw quite a few, there's some really really chio and instagram worthy ones!!!



Sat down at this place where there's 7-11 and other miscellaneous shops to wait for our host to drive us up to the minsu. While we were waiting, I took this opportunity to take a picture of my outfit of the day. Hahah! XP



About 30mins later, the host contacted my friend and told us that he's waiting for us at the carpark nearby. Actually, everything was pretty easy, from booking of the hostel, the communication, the contacting of the host and etc... Ohyah, the name of the minsu we stayed in was called Starry Minsu if you'd like to know. We booked a 4 person room for 4600 NTD ($203) and added a extra bed for 500 NTD ($22) which total up to 5100 NTD ($225.60) = 1020 NTD ($45 est SGD per person). This is inclusive of the host driving you up from the place you alight from the bus + Dinner + Breakfast the next day + Friendly People + Sunrise + Chilly Weather + Full of Insta Worthy Places. WHAT'S THERE TO HIAM?!!!





Here's the view when we reached the minsu. Looking down from the open garden area. The view is quite intimidating to me tbh. Hahaha! :/



As we reached the place, we were explained to about the rules and regulations and the do's and don't, and also to pay the full amount of our stay for the night. The hosts are very nice, I think its a family owned place. Like there's dogs and children and everything is just so homely. We were told that we could see the sunrise the following morning if we were to able to wake up at 5am?? LOL! And that dinner is almost ready that we can just head on down right after we've unpacked our stuff...



Here's how our room looks like. Its actually pretty simple, just 3 beds, and TV and a bathroom. No fancy stuffs. Hahaha! But we managed to keep ourselves occupied with instant beef noodles, poker cards and monopoly deal. HAHAHAHA!!!




After we've settled down and unpacked our stuffs, we hurriedly went for our steamboat dinner that is included in our stay at Starry Minsu.





This place is so pretty that everywhere is so instagram worthy!!! I wished we could have stayed for 1 more night. :(




The dinner that was prepared for us. It was really good, and the people there are super friendly. What's more, there's no additional cost if you want more rice on your plate. Hahahaa!!!!

After our dinner, we headed back to our room to chill and play cards. We kept ourselves occupied by betting on who gets to choose their bed for the next minsu that we're staying. Hahaha! We played till about 1 or 2am-ish I think??? And we're pretty worried about how are we gonna wake up to catch the sunrise later on. Oh btw, we set our alarm at 5.45am when we're supposed to set it at 5am! HAHAHAHA!

That's it for now, till the next post!!! ♥