Bye kenting! It was a disappointment to not able to play water activities at kenting, but nonetheless, we did experience taifung (mini ver, lucky).
And so we set of to our next destination, taitung.
From hualien train station, we bought 便当！ This is to fulfill our dear friend Jean's wish to eat 铁路便当。though we did not buy this from the train station.
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| The 便当looks delicious, but it was not. |
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| Setting off from fangliao to taitung |
We took a local train, which was said to be the last local train running from hualien to taitung, as less and less ppl took the local train due to its slow speed.
The local train was indeed very old and running at a very slow pace. The number of passengers were only less than 10 for the whole train. So the three of us got the whole cabin by ourself HAHA.
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| Local train exterior |
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| No aircon, only fans. However when the train is moving, it is very windy and nice :D |
On our way to taitung, we pass by the pacific ocean! Which is so nice and colourful! There are 4 colours, blue, turquoise, grey and wh
ite. When passing by the pacific ocean, the train keeps going into tunnel, so every time when the train exit the tunnel, we will all turn and look out for the beautiful ocean.
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| Pacific ocean |
When we reached taitung, we took a shuttle bus to the 'city' of taitung. When we reached, we walked to our hostel, La Pace hostel. On the map the distance look pretty short, so we decide to save on the taxi fare and walk with our huge bagpack. We were so wrong. We almost died when we reached our destination. After settling down, we rented bicycle from our hostel for NTD 100 for 24hours, which was much cheaper if we rent outside (around NTD 300). We needed our own transport as there are no buses around taitung.
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| My freaking huge bag |
And so our bicycle journey started....
We cycle to drink the famous sugar cane lemonade (which according to the host, was the only drink found in taiwan). This tasted exactly like the sugar cane lemonade from my the market near my house in singapore. But it was still nice. Next we ate the seaweed noodle recommended by our host again. We think that the noodle was very bland, but the 汤包was delicious! After which we cycled to 鲤鱼山, but we did not go in because it looks really scary and dark. We are timid.
The sun set pretty fast in taiwan, around 6+pm, the sky is completely dark. People in taitung all turn in very early, at around 6pm, all the stores were closed and very little ppl can be seen on the street. And so we were lost and unable to find our way back. We cycled for a very long time, scared and tired, as it was really very dark. When we finally managed to find a 7/11, we went in there, as it was the only bright place ); We eat again, and buy food for the next day breakfast, as seriously in taitung, most of the stores were closed.
* tips* If you were to visit taitung, do expect to only able to view the nice scenery, no shopping, no party. It is a solace place for people to relax and think of their life.
And if you were expecting to visit taitung night market, go there during weekend. As it is not open during weekdays.
Finally after 2.5 hours of hardship, we found our way back. And our poor friend which preferred unnamed was still in a shock stage after being chased by a stray dog. We ended the day very early, 8.30pm as there were really nothing for us to see. So we decided to sleep in early....9.30pm... with the light on. Because we were scared. The whole building (2storey) only have the 3 of us. And some of the lights were not working ;___; even though i like to watch horror movies, but i hate it when i am one of the character inside.
