Retail Therapy: Day 2 in taiwan

After slacking for a very very long time at the 7/11, at 4 am we hired a cab to taoyuan train station. The first train was at around 6am, but we reached there before 5am -.-

The cab fare at taiwan was almost like singapore, only slightly cheaper. A 30 minutes ride cost around NTD 510 (~S$ 22.30). Do hire a cab at the airport, as they are licensed drivers, so they wont scam your money.
After we reached the train station, there was no one, the train station was not opened yet. It opens at 5.30am. So we walk around and get some breakfast.

蛋饼 NTD 20 (~S$0.80)

I ate this 蛋饼, consist of egg wrapping around some veggie. This is not nice to eat. After which we bought a TRA pass , NTD 799 (~S$ 35) at taoyuan train station. This pass is like train concession, and it is valid for 7 days. Meaning that we can take the local trains (and other slower trains) around taiwan for unlimited amount of time. This is very worth it, however the disadvantages of this pass is that firstly, it is only for student, secondly, the trains that allow this concession are very limited and slow. WORST of all is that this concession dont have seat number, meaning that you will need to STAND if the freaking train was full (we din noe this until when we were travelling from taichung to kaoshiung, we almost died).

(Do check the train schedule for the timing of the specific trains you can take using TRA pass. Only Chu-Kuang Express, and local trains are covered by the pass.)

And so at 6.05 am, we boarded a train and we sleep like a log all the way to taichung (REM TO SET ALARM, their train timing, arrival time is quite accurate).

Interior of the train. The train was very empty. But half way to taichung, a lot of high school student boarded.

Taichung!! After 2 hours of train ride.

We are still freaking sleepy... We reached around ~8 am and we called the hostel (Fashion Home 26) to ask the host to pick us up :D

Instead of going to the hostel, we asked uncle sam (the host, i hope he wont see this blog for which i have called him uncle), to take us to the bus station to go to sun moon lake while uncle sam help us carry our luggage back to the hostel, he is so damn nice THANKS A MILLION! we will really die if we were to tour with our backpacks.

We bought a day pass to sun moon lake which includes round trip bus to sun moon lake, free bus around sun moon lake, a ferry ride, and cable car rides for NTD 699 (~S$31)

1 day pass for sun moon lake

This symbol is carved around sun moon lake

Cable car ride! One piece theme XD

Sun moon lake view from the cable car.

At the end of our sun moon lake tour, it was not fun at all. I think mainly is due to lack of sleep. We were SO FREAKING tired when we were there and we wanted to go back to the hostel so much. However thinking that we have already paid so we just go onto the bus and ride around the place... and that day was a sunny and hot day too...

Finally at around 5 pm we leave the place... A point to note when going to sun moon lake, DO eat the ah po cha ye dan (herbal egg). The egg is really delicious, and it is kind of a trait mark for sun moon lake.

In overview, we did very little stuff at sun moon lake. We only take a ferry, eat 2 eggs, take the bus round sun moon lake and take the cable car. ... A so not adventurous day... -______-

OKAY thats all for sun moon lake! We were very happy when we were leaving. So freaking tired that the moment we went onto the bus, we go into hibernation.

We took the same bus back to taichung but this time round we stop at taichung high speed rail station. The station was so much more nicer than the train station!! The motive of us there is not to take the train but to take the shuttle bus from there to feng jia, where we will be staying XD

And so we paid NTD 20 (~S$0.80) to take the shuttle bus to chao ma stop (near feng jia) and we spent a hell lot of time looking for our hostel (fashion home 26). In case you intend to stay there to, just ask for direction to feng jia university, when you are facing the university, turn left and walk all the way straight for 5 -10mins. Ask for direction again and tada!

bus ride to feng jia

While looking for our hostel we were too hungry, so we ate this bean curd fries which tasted disgusting.

烟囱卷！We decided that our graduation trip will be at taiwan because we saw 你猜 introducing this bread.

DAMN NICE. Too excited, hence continuously took 3 blur pics ...

A part of feng jia ye shi! My fav night market in taiwan XD

When we reached Fashion Home 26, uncle sam brought us to our room. The room is rather small, consisting of a double bed, a sofa bed and a bath room which is transparent!!! OMG although all of us are girls...but still feel very shy bathing there (got a curtain which looks kinda thin)