:) 2 weeks ago, I started my 8-days Taiwan Free & Easy with Mr. I must say it was a definite unforgettable trip for us and lots of beautiful memories captured.
We booked our tickets in early July through Cathay Pacific. I'm not sure whether it was a promotion, but I managed to get our return tickets to Taipei for SGD550/pax. I say this is a good deal! :) Jetstar was offering about SGD500 without any luggage check-in.
The catch is that you have to transit at Hong Kong Airport. It's about an hour of transit time so we shopped around HK for awhile. The only time wasted is the taking off and landing. However, we still think that's is quite reasonable.
Breakfast meal served on board flight to Hong Kong.
Beautiful sea as we get nearer and nearer to Taiwan! :)
We reached around 2pm at Taoyuan Airport. Since there's no time difference between Singapore and Taiwan, we were ahead of time as per our itinerary.
Our trip will start from South, Kaohsiung and all the way back to the North, stopping along the way at Taichung and finally Taipei. We pre-booked our High Speed Rail (HSR) tickets online before flying off as we're afraid there won't be any tickets left due to peak weekend period.
To get to the HSR - Taoyuan Station, you need to take the Shuttle bus service 705 by Ubus (green color bus) from Airport Terminal.
There's lot of signage around the Airport to guide you to the Shuttle bus.
Bus 705 will take you all the way to HSR - Taoyuan Station.
705 is operated by Ubus Service.
You can either pay by using the Taiwan Ezlink card, or cash at the bus counter.
It's NT$30/pax for a single trip.
Trip is about 20 minutes. So do take in consideration when you purchase your tickets online. If I didn't remember wrongly, if you purchase your tickets in advance, you get to enjoy a 10% discount. :) So book early! :)
Our HSR tickets! :)
:) Once you reached the station, you can collect your tickets at either
those vending machine or approach the information counter. Lucky we went
for the latter as the officer helped us to change our tickets to an
earlier timing and also it's an Express train meaning that it doesn't
stop at all station but selective. The whole journey from Taoyuan to
Zuoying (HSR Station at Kaohsiung) took around an hour half.
While waiting for the train, some shots to kick start our trip! :)
HSR train! :) It's my first time on board this super duper fast train! :)
The good thing about HSR is that it's super fast (it's the bullet
train!), and it's so smooth! :) It's even more comfortable as compared
to the Airplane, especially if you're sitting near the engine! *LOL!*
And the train is so quiet (I really mean it's Q.U.I.E.T!) that we have
to whisper on the train if someone speaks a bit louder you can hear him.
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**Do take note that these train is always very punctual, so it's better to be there earlier as they don't wait for any passengers.**
Found out seats, settled down, and off we go to Kaohsiung! :) Stay tuned!
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