Saturday, July 12, 2014

Fun Taiwan 2014; Hualian

20 June: We travelled from Taitung to Hualian by railway train and once at Hualian, we check-into one of the nicest home stay we ever had; Jimei Homestay. The room is very nice and it even have a small little balcony which we can sit and chill and have tea.

After resting, we headed to Hualian famous night market and it was just filled with food food and more food!


Lovely Room

The living area

Play area! 

Night Market


Super tasty! 



Spring Roll

Must Q food! 

Tasty! 

21 June: We visited the famous 太魯閣國家公園 aka Taroko National Park for lots of tracking. It is a must visit place if you are at Hualian as it is really a beautiful place, especially so for nature lovers! 

Taroko is a site where marble rock formation can be found, and from many years of water eroding the 

marble, beautiful marble line formation can be seen! 

Breakfast place @ the homestay

Breakfast!


Lovely view!





Tracking!

At one of the river. 



Wearing safety helmet to prevent falling rocks from killing us! 





22 June: Final day in Hualian, we kind of just visited little place around Hualian city. It is a small city with simple life. So exploring around is easy and chill. Also we eat our way around, so is all food food and food! 












Last day in Taiwan, really did not want to go home at all, miss everything about this beautiful place. Had too many lovely memories here. This is the 6th and 5th time Stanley and I had visited Taiwan and our 4th time here together! Taiwan holds a special place in our heart and till now we still have new place to visit when we are here! We will not be here too soon, but we will surely be back! 

Missing Taiwan already! 






Saturday, July 5, 2014

Fun Taiwan 2014; Lvdao

19 June: Travelling to Green Island requires us to first head to Taitung (East of Taiwan) to take a ferry to Green Island aka Lvdao (绿岛). Lvdao is an Island of taiwan, it is a sunny island that is great for diving. They have very little tourist mainly Taiwanese themselves will visit there during the summer holidays.

Lvdao is a very small island, thus it is easy to travel around by motorbike, therefore the training we had at Kenting helped us to move around! Here we each had a motorbike.

Here, we scuba, visit their prison, went for night tour and explore the island!

Train to Taitung

Ferry Terminal

Waiting for the ferry

Ready to Scuba

Fishes of Lvdao




Nite hunt for food! 



Prison Shop!


20 June: Exploring the Island! 


Prison Visit!



Cell

Light house visit! 

Water so clear!



Ending our Lvdao trip! 

Ending the trip in Lvdao, we have to travel back to Taitung by ferry, then take a train to Hualian.