4th day in Taiwan! :)
Woke up early even though had a late night. Need to kick start our Sun Moon Lake (SML) 1-day trip early because we are going to find our own way there! ^^
Did some research online and found that there's an express bus 南投汽車客運 that specially served return trips to SML at interval schedules daily.
Bus ticket to SML, and the 1-day pass from SML information counter
:) Took us quite some time before we managed to find the shuttle bus company to get our tickets. We got to find our own directions to the bus stop and it wasn't easy cause the information I found online wasn't that direct. In the end, we had to ask directions along the way, and we had to pass through a wet market (which was quite an eye opener, because there's live chickens everywhere!).
Lucky we did find the bus stop and was in time for the next bus (which was leaving in about 10 minutes time). :) Journey was spent sleeping on off and watching some Taiwanese variety show. It's about an hour plus trip, and along the way the bus stopped to fetch more passengers. :)
:) Here at Sun Moon Lake! *Pictures' color are slightly enhanced.*
Weather was quite sunny but at comfortable temperature. Beautiful view of the hills and clear water when we reached the pier. The most convenient way of traveling around SML is by the boat, which is unlimited rides if you purchase any tickets from the "tour agency" at the Shuishe pier (main pier). Of course there are the taxi and bus but the total distance covered will be much longer since you have to make a big round around the hills.
Hotels located around SML :)
There's lots of small hotels around SML, thus you can choose to stayover for a night and enjoy the scenery and maybe catch the sunrise in the morning?
:) On the boat towards our first destination - I Ta Thao (伊达邵)
At 伊达邵, you will see more of the tribal group heritage, and there's a cable car ride to the other side of the Island where there's an outdoor theme park. Can't say much about this park though since we didn't purchase the admission ticket. Unless you're planning to stay for the night, if not you might not have enough time to play all the rides.
A short walk to the cable car station :)
The whole ride takes about 15 minutes and you'll get a bird eye view of almost the whole lake. It's really pretty up there! :) And the good thing is when we were there, there wasn't much crowd and thus we could have the whole cable car to ourselves! :):):)
The famous 阿婆茶叶蛋! :)
Spent almost an hour plus at I Ta Thao, and we moved on to the 玄光寺, which is famous for the 阿婆茶叶蛋! :) The tour guide told us that the record number of eggs sold in 1 day was 15k, and each egg cost NT$10, meaning that she made NT$150000 in 1 day! Ok, if you can't imagine how much that it, well it's about SGD$6.5K! O.O!!!
That's about 2 months of my salary! -____-"
HAHAHAHA! So yeah, she makes really good tea egg. Her secret?
Well, I guess she uses the best tea leaves from the mountains and also the additional ingredients - mushrooms which I don't see it in Singapore!
Too bad I didn't get to see her in person, most probably resting at home (she's quite old actually) or maybe up in the mountains plucking tea leaves. :):):)
Well, this sort of summarize the 1-day tour at SML! I strongly encourage you guys to visit this when you're in Taichung. It's BEAUTIFUL! :):):)
More coming up, and now we're back to Taipei! *WHEEE!* :):):)
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